The fate of Jaguar and Land Rover will be a key indicator of the state of 21st-century UK plc.
Data, data, everywhere, but not a stop to think
Of the vast quantities of information expensively pumped through corporate pipes, much gets diverted, dammed or just trickles through the cracks. What does get through is often contaminated, diluted, or otherwise unusable.
Tangled in the corporates’ own dodgy red tape
COMPANIES ARE quick to complain about the ‘regulatory burden’. But given the way they treat customers, that’s just corporate social hypocrisy.
Make a decision? We’re too dumbed-down
We’re winessing a burgeoning phenomenon of management lite: managing by numbers and formulas rather than judgment and method.
With an asshole in charge, we all get a bum deal
In a list of the world’s greatest assholes, business would take a disproportionate share.
Out of house, out of mind – and out of pocket
Outsourcing is pervasive – but much of it ends up costing more than keeping the service in house.
Why fearless leaders are something to dread
THE PAINFUL unravelling over the last year of the public and private lives of one of the UK’s most iconic businessmen, Lord Browne, is a sobering example of the pitfalls of the cult of leadership.
Labour’s decade, the best and worst of times
Anyone looking at New Labour’s decade through a macroeconomic lens might conclude it was the best of times. Yet reverse the lens and it looks very different
The council that gave people what they wanted
PERMANENTLY CAST in the long shadow of Whitehall, local government has long been the poor relation of politics – the purveyor of bins, parking tickets and Asbos as opposed to high strategy. But, as yet unreflected in dismal voting totals, things are stirr
What’s so hard about keeping accounts simple?
BY TURNING ITS 2007 annual report into a 454-page, 1.5kg WMD for the postal system, HSBC may have been hoping to bring down the current reporting regime at a stroke. Yet while there is widespread agreement that present rules leave much to be desired, redu