Category Archives: Business

Thoughts on outsourcing

By Dhiren | Published: January 18, 2012
I’ve increasingly become interested in supply chains and the outsourcing of product manufacture (note: I’m only referring to product manufacturing and nothing else). The latter is shrouded in positive and negative opinions from everyone including economists, the government and environmentalists. The detractors argue that outsourcing has a negative impact on our GDP and unemployment rates; [...]
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The demise of the cookie cutter strategy

By Dhiren | Published: November 30, 2011
The effects of the financial crisis are now more evident than ever. There will be more job cuts in the public sector, the Euro crisis will not settle anytime soon and a recession appears to be imminent. We’re fed information by the media, yet it’s often difficult to see the immediate impacts on our surroundings; [...]
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Artisans in business

By Dhiren | Published: October 20, 2011
Scratch notes (ignore grammar mistakes and embrace swearing). I’ve been thinking: developed economies spent – at least – a third of the twentieth centry trying to repair economic damage incurred by war, gain economic momentum and grow. A focus on growth, margins and profit, from the fifties and onward, created faceless organisations, which produced medicore [...]
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Four p’s 2.0

By Dhiren | Published: November 22, 2010
Some new ones to think about: via mobile advantage
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The Social Utility

By Dhiren | Published: November 11, 2009
I loyally (or stupidly) upgraded to an iPhone 3GS last week. The appeal to me was the 32GB flash memory and built-in Nike+. I’ve never used Nike+ before, but I’ve always recognized it as a business idea that’s innovative on so many levels. The alternatives to Nike+ are ugly looking, expensive devices that are produced [...]
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Ideas and not advertising

By Dhiren | Published: March 23, 2009
A rather old article I know but I found it doing some detective work around management consultancy firms. The big consultancy firms steer some of the largest brands and businesses in the world. As the blogs of Ad-World celebrities now indicate, “businesses now need ideas and not just advertising”. Ideas such as more cost efficient [...]
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The way things are going and the way we need to be

By Dhiren | Published: February 28, 2009
Just an excellent speech from Gary V. Nuff said, just watch it!
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