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Worth a read?
Category: Articles/Worth a read
... They suggest that if we think of ourselves as 'autonomous hubs with a useful network in tow', we could free ourselves from a 'wage-slave' mentality and all become self-asserting entrepreneurs like them ...Tuesday, 06 July 2010 -
Editor's Note
Category: Articles/Editors Notes
... confirms how important the personal touch is when looking after clients. We hope you find The Service Issue of Blue Chip useful and that you will be able to implement some of the practices in your daily ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
BI is a welcome twist in the tale
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... allows organisations to better understand, analyse, and even predict what’s occurring in the overall environment and in their company. They are able to turn data into useful and meaningful information ...Monday, 18 January 2010 -
Alert!
Category: Articles/Other
... as a strategic planning tool. Starting with the Final Draw on 4 December, we will distribute an activity calendar. Not only will this be updated regularly, but it will be augmented with useful tools, where ...Friday, 27 November 2009 -
Competitive edge
Category: Articles/International Trends
... a strategic decision instead of blindly firing off a shotgun in the hope of one day hitting something useful. At a Defence Department briefing in February 20025, former US Secretary of Defence Donald ...Tuesday, 15 September 2009 -
Opening up Africa
Category: Articles/Investments
... website of its kind produced in co-operation between African institutions and international organisations. The site offers more than simply raw information. It also provides very useful business intelligence. ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Straight talk
Category: Articles/Other
... anxious to acquire useful insights into domains that more often than not, subtly or not so subtly, structure the world in which we live. Finance is one of those domains, and if the “Great Crunching Credit ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Negative markets and living annuitants
Category: Articles/Retirement
... the couple’s money is likely to last for more than five years. Living annuities are useful vehicles because they allow investors to control the underlying investments, and the withdrawal that they take. ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Incentives are often the difference between just cheap and good
Category: Articles/Investments
... capital allocation over time. We turned the traditional cash flow statement around to a more useful format by basically working out the total cash that management was trusted with by shareholders to ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Towards professionalism
Category: Articles/Marketing
... fulfill. It will also help if the salesman has some background knowledge about the environment in which the product will be used. It will further be really useful if the salesman can compare a few alternative ...Sunday, 01 February 2009 -
Attack on havens
Category: Articles/Other
... more useful, more dangerous? They’re probably all of those things. Back in the day, when you didn’t have the Internet, you had people carrying suitcases on a Pan Am flight to a European tax haven. Now ...Tuesday, 08 July 2008 -
Attack on havens
Category: Articles/Other
... richest economies –, recently said about tax havens: “Are they more popular, more useful, more dangerous? They’re probably all of those things. Back in the day, when you didn’t ...Monday, 05 May 2008 -
Emotion threatens value
Category: Articles/Other
... or a time to do nothing? Sensational headlines make it very difficult to remain unemotional. It is useful to remember to focus on the facts and study history to understand the lessons that can be learnt ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
Editor's Note
Category: Articles/Other
... the market is going to be doing next week, next month, next quarter or even next year. If anyone tells you they know, they are lying.” At the same time, he also gives some useful advice on what ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008 -
Beat inflation
Category: Articles/Other
Diversification is a useful tool in enabling investors to grow their wealth in excess of inflation over time.By diversification we mean including asset classes in a portfolio that reacts differently to ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008
