Archive for the strategy section

• 21 Sep

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • strategy

  PwC: they takes yer money… but was this really your choice?

  Business as usual for the global auditors. Its just like there was no banking crash. Pricewaterhouse Coopers – PwC – has just published its results.
  
  Three things jump off the page to me. And each mind-numbing fact reminds me just how stupid banks and enterprises really are.

  Firstly, PwC two main businesses turned over £900 Million and £650 Million each. The next is that UK Chairman Ian Powell will net a bonus of £3.7 Million.

  And thirdly, they took on 1,200 graduates – average age 24 – to work with clients. Congratulations. That waste-of-space intern is now costing you £2,500 a day… continued over the page… >>

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• 14 Sep

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • products
  • strategy
  • uncategorized

  Bosch: what you do isn’t what you should always do – a lesson for banks?

  Ever stopped for a moment to consider exactly what is banking really all about? Could a lawn mower be the key to change?Not any old lawn mower. But Bosch lawn mowers – and how they came about. Because this is about re-invention at a very dark time. A time not unlike now.

  About how a company faced with a collapsing market found the vision to change. Emerging stronger and able to cope with an even greater challenge to follow. continued over the page… >>

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• 06 Sep

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • strategy
  • uncategorized

  below Standard & Poor: a rumble in US capitalism’s gangland

  Once upon a time, we thought US financial policy was decided democratically. That concept was blown away like a dollar bill in Hurricane Katrina.
  

  The US government in reality is no more than some crude Punch & Judy show, the strings being pulled by a financial Mafia run by Wall Street and its lobbyists. Everything neatly stage-managed by a company called Standard & Poor.

  Standard & Poor was perceived as the US financial world’s steadying influence. The trusted hand deciding the efficacy of decisions taken on Wall Street.

  The banking crash revealed a startling fallibility – but was that the real story? continued over the page… >>

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