I was recently fortunate enough to travel to New Zealand where I met a variety of people from the government and private sector. A couple of subjects dominated our discussions: agriculture and the role of government in supporting and indeed...

While all the focus currently is on the economic difficulties around the world, looking out to 2020 the clear pattern that companies need to be examining over the longer term is the rise of the middle class. The OECD defines...

In the 19th century, the introduction of the telegraph across the US provided businesses with the ability to have timely two way communications over vast distances. This allowed some businesses to coordinate more effectively, react to changes in demand and...

My grandfather ran a chemist’s shop in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland for all his working life.  Aside from service in the Second World War, my father was an academic all his working life.  It looks like I will work at...

In April 2011, the Economist indicated that in 1937 if you were a company on the S&P 500 index you remained there for 75 years, which in my world is forever.Today, companies last on the same index for 15 years....

“We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there” - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor, engineer and businessman.Today, many of us are transfixed by the uncertainty that the Euro...