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For a twelve-hour flight I stocked up on reading matter and quickly found a terrific article in management consultant Booz’s in-house rag [http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews120208?pg=0].  The starting point was with the marketing wheeze that was “horsepower”. Industrial revolutionaries Matthew Boulton and James Watt

I’m working with my Cape Town crew at present, and residing deep in technoville, they’ve a desk filled with several old laptops in various states of dismantled ruin which they’re happily cannibalising to make enhancements to other kit.  One such gem unearthed is an internal hard drive

I’m not quite the fan of Dragons’ Den that once I was, but I did enjoy reading the twelve tips to running a new business from one of Dragons that comes from a retail background on the beeb’s website [http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/

Newspapers still have a place in physical space.  Grabbing a lunchtime fill on London’s South Bank, the deli had its own daily copy of a broadsheet’s Technology Supplement strewn all over a highly perched table top.  Not normally my cup o’tea, it helped ably pass a few

I’ve attended countless formal sales meetings in my capacity as an externally hired hand to help with certain elements of salesteam improvement.  Several, a majority even, have featured the discussion of a latest product which, if not quite brand spanking new, has a large component of new-ness associated with

Among stockbrokers, the ability to accurately determine share price momentum indicators is often the difference between profit and loss.  There are several ways of judging this, looking at various combinations of closing prices, ranges and trends.  Naturally, the greater the understanding of momentum, the better the chance of making money.