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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Is the Future Inbound?

20-May-06

My friend Allan Engelhardt was featured in a recent piece in Database Marketing magazine. Having spoken to him, it sounds like he’s got some neat technology to help Vodafone and others upsell to people with well timed and relevant offers. It seems to work a treat!
The great value of inbound over outbound, Engelhardt stresses, is [...]

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The Future of European Football

20-May-06

An interesting survey on the European Cup, UEFA Cup and other aspects of European Football
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Survey/index.htmx

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Links

08-May-06

Some links to entries I’ve seen recently;
Passion, People and Principles
Looks at consultancy and finding the right level of insight and analysis that clients will (hopefully) get (or not!)
Scrapping the annual budget
Some ideas and success stories around moving to quarterly planning and budgetting cycles, as opposed to the traditional annual budget
Salary Compression
Ideas for new forms of [...]

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Amazing Pictures

04-May-06

Some amazing pictures from Ros Cannell. Here’s a sample but do visit her Flickr page

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Life is Short

03-May-06

A very moving post by Lisa Haneberg. My deepest sympathies are with her and I sincerely recommend reading her thoughts…
Life is Short

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Discipline and Courage

02-May-06

David Maister highlighted a piece from the Economist in which the forumla for Goldman Sachs success comes from their ability to recognise and act on the fact that team work, values and related intangibles are very hard to do but do drive success
Goldman does not preach different philosophies than most other businesss would preach [...]

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Business Books

01-May-06

Rob captures the essence of many, many business books
If you have read this blog for a while, you have probably heard me mention that I read business books primarily for the small kernel of truth you find inside. I have about 15-20 books that I think are excellent, and another 20 that are [...]

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Hello

01-May-06

This is another attempt at blogging I think this this the third time I have blogged. Originally I used Bloxsom and then I used Wordpress 1.2. This is now version 2.02, so we’ll see how well I get on this time!

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