Businesses have always felt the need to reshape their portfolios from time to time. What is different now is the need to do so at speed, worldwide and in competition not just with traditional industry rivals but with well capitalised finance groups worldw
English, language of lost chances: The curse of not having to learn another tongue to get by is costing us dear
AS WE have all known since we won the right to host the 2012 Olympics, 300 languages are spoken in London. It’s just a pity the natives can only manage one.
A Russian business revolution
Aluminium giant Rusal is being saved from Soviet slackness
Morris’s labour of love
The former union leader has a powerful message: concentrate on getting meaning out of the job you’re doing now.
The Market in Carbon: Can we trade our way out of this mess?
As with number 10 buses, you wait for years, and all at once emissions trading markets are springing up all over the place.
The age of the Euro-customer
Europe cannot compete on cost alone.
An end to supermarkets’ sweep: Even the retail giants should learn from others’ mistakes
What has Tesco to fear from farmers’ markets – and how do aircraft parts come into it?
Putting the IT in Wh IT ehall: Westminster’s head of e-government believes in the public sector because it does it better
THE UK public sector will fork out euros 21 billion (£14bn) on IT this year, 40 per cent higher than the total for France or Germany. This may be a matter for disquiet rather than rejoincing.
You call this ‘best practice’?
The abuse of Asian telephone centre staff by customers is symptomatic of corporate cock-up on a grand scale.
The red herring of red tape
UK businesses are already some of the least regulated in the world – and look where that’s got us.