by JAK | Aug 10, 2007 | big ideas, culture, idealog, industry futures
One of the standard responses from Government and Oil companies when faced with the peak oil scenarios is to say that alternative energy sources will make up the gap and we shouldn’t worry. Wrong! This is Part 2 in a series on Energy futures and this post looks...
by JAK | Aug 7, 2007 | big ideas, development, TED
At school my daughter is a very excited member of the Enviro Explorers who aim to treasure the environment while many of us parents drive them to school in huge gas guzzling cars. How shortsighted is that? Incredibly it seems that despite 30 years of rising...
by JAK | Aug 3, 2007 | development, general business
At last, we seem to have a Cabinet Minister that fully listens to advisers and the public. Full kudos to David Cunliffe who is one of the key government ministers to really understand the most significant issues in his portfolios. Even better, he “gets”...
by JAK | Aug 1, 2007 | big ideas, general business
At last there seems to be a winner in the race for the Wall St Journal. The Bancroft family went for a deal that valued the group at ($5b) double the previous cap before the bid. It has been a long and convoluted story* but should get even more interesting now and is...
by JAK | Jul 24, 2007 | crmthinking, general business
The most successful businesses that I know follow a clearly structured sales methodology and a detailed plan to get there. It shouldn’t be too surprising that in order to get to a big sales goal there are a whole series of much smaller structured activities...
