Tag: Opinion

Any business that has to use this country’s road network will have serious complaints about how it affects productivity and profits. Roadworks caused by utility companies impede freight and public transport and are a serious cause of economic inefficiency.

This morning I listened to Steve Ballmer talking over breakfast. Admittedly I was one of a few hundred people in the LSE lecture theatre but privileged nonetheless to hear the thoughts of Microsoft’s CEO on cloud computing.

This week I present my jargon dictionary (or “jargonary”). There are an awful lot of words that take on wholly different meanings in the confines of the office. Here’s my A-to-Z glossary of them.

Novelty-gifts genius Shed Simove recently decided to create a new bathware product – a shower mitten that combines politics with personal hygiene. Intrigued He tells Real Business how he got it off the ground (and into the shower).

Trying to pull back control from the mayhem of early November when Second-in-Charge and I made careless error of actually trying to do our own jobs (ie: “little things” like next year’s supplement brochure and year end) but resultantly took our eye off balls that should belong to the middle management.  

The Royal Mail strikes may be over for now but the root problems still remain. Turnaround expert Anthony Holmes has a rather unusual solution to the current stand off between management and the CWU.

Inspiration comes from the strangest things. Last week I was having a conversation with Joanna Van Vleck, founder of a rockin’ new company called The Trunk Club. It’s the States’ hottest new Web 2.0 business: an online  clothes shop for men with expert style advice thrown in. It’s catching on like wildfire. With this rapid growth and notoriety comes a need for risk capital of the best kind – venture capital. And you wouldn’t believe how similar the venture capital process is to another risky enterprise: dating.

Following the TechCrunch furore last week, Real Business went straight to its favourite digital marketing genius, Guy Levine, for his views on the porn for page impressions debate. His verdict: all’s fair in keywords and meta tagging.

Exhaustion starting to hit with a vengeance. Right hand still off and sales office starting to look pale and over stretched.