Central government spending on management consultancy doubled last year, making it the UK’s largest single market for business advice.
So what’s the big idea?
Joined-up thinking is the way forward, as the public sector is discovering.
Goodbye industry, hello Government
While demand for management consultancy from the private sector remains weak, the taxpayer is taking up the slack.
The difference a year makes
Annualised hours contracts: an antidote to staff burnout.
Just the job
It’s time managers took on board lessons about pay identified by Frederick Herzberg 40 years ago.
Give that carrot some stick
Performance-based pay models are counterproductive and divisive
Business schools for scandal
What the academics teach is what created Enrons, says a distinguished business school professor.
Needed like a hole in the head
Fixation with budgets is holding up the roads – and much else besides.
Lean, green Toyota aims for car that’s totally clean
The pioneer of petrol-electric models is now innovating to keep society on its side
Black arts of the science mags
The web is ending scientific publishing’s stranglehold on publicly paid research.