Taking the Sugar out of the mix and keeping the best...
Staff retention is a hot potato at the moment. Business is waking up to the fact that it's most important assets are the key people it employs. Senior management is going to extraordinary lengths to keep those people within their respective busineses.
Heads will roll: Hands shakes up the music industry
Internet downloads and dwindling revenues have been hurting the music industry for more than a decade, so it’s about time outmoded business models were addressed.
Stormy weather
Like the Atlantic weather that has dampened the British Isles this month, an ill wind brought in changeable financial conditions from America that blew all round the world.
The Challenge of Simplicity
Sometimes simplicity can be the most complicated thing to achieve.
Profiteering or recouping development costs?
As NHS doctors prepare to prescribe an unlicensed eye cure, what will it take for drugs companies to adopt a responsible CSR policy?
What next for Brown?
Now that Brown has finally taken the reins, what might he have in store for business and the economy?
Gordon’s got guts
There’s really only been one topic this week – the impending translation of Gordon Brown from No 11 to No 10, and his fairly radical approaches to senior LibDem people.
Who will want to buy Jaguar and Land Rover now?
No wonder Ford has decided to offload two struggling subsidiaries as part of its massive restructuring. It has to do something, having lost close to three million dollars in the first three months of
How did she do it?
Hooray! The NHS has got out of the red and may even make a surplus in 2006-7.
Some thoughts on Russia
Business a better bet than politics
An Apple a day
No wonder Apple’s shares shot up 8 percent when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone.
Service with a smile
The service economy is maturing.
A bank for the world
The Americans always appoint the head of the World Bank, but surely it is time that tradition was questioned.
Ireland expects - the UK hopes
With all the seats in the 30th Dáil now filled Fianna Fáil party leader Bertie Aherne is ready to enter a third term in power.
The beginning of an era at the end of an era
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