I posted recently about how competition operates through 3 distinct mechanisms: I mentioned that these 3 mechanisms feature more or less strongly in different markets, vary in their […]
We need more data literacy (numeracy)
Now there is, of course, considerable use of mathematical analytics, in many guises, right across the business world. Very clever people doing awesomely sophisticated things with huge amounts of […]
Winning competition – the devil is in the detail
I have posted a couple of times recently about competition – one was about how to win by taking ‘loose bricks’ out of a competitor’s business, and another […]
“Prune” a business in trouble to turn it round
A fund management business faced collapse, after some years of successful and profitable growth. (These companies invest your cash in equities and bonds to grow your wealth, often […]
HOW to build and sustain the “quality” of customers (and other resources)
A recent post explained how the “quality” of business resources (customers, products, staff, capacity, intermediaries …) is just as important to performance as the quantity of each. What I […]