How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?
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How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?

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Post written with Steve Yates, Chairman of the Resilience Association. Ensuring business continuity and resilience should be the priority, if not already the norm. 2019 was sadly a catastrophic year for certain industry sectors, with too many organizations going “bust”, in some cases a short time after their financial accounts had been cleared by top…

Supply and Demand organised dysfunctioning
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Resources mismanagement: an integral part of corporate strategy?

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Illustration with the deconstruction of two retailers’ food waste stances. When it comes to business strategy and its operationalisation, one needs to be aware that what doesn’t make sense at all in the eyes of shareholders, society or the population/customers can be intentionally and knowingly implemented by the business’s executives/owners. And this post shows that…

How your Business’s ownership rights can bring you more fruits?
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How your Business’s ownership rights can bring you more fruits?

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An introductory reflection on the three attributes of Property: Usus, Fructus and Abusus. As a qualification of the relationship between a person and a thing, ownership is, by nature, absolute. From a Roman long tradition feeding the emergence of civil law, ownership gives you what is called the Usus, Fructus and Abusus on your property/business. Usus denotes the right of…

How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?
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How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?

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Illustration with mathematics teaching policies in the US and Japan. When analysing data or information, whether quantitative or qualitative and even policies, history matters. Indeed, history shows us the evolution and direction taken by events, which we can then appreciate against given quality assessment criteria. To those who believe that “good” and “bad” criteria don’t…

What to expect this week from the Supreme Court?
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What to expect this week from the Supreme Court?

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What to expect this week from the Supreme Court (SP) on the Prorogation of Parliament? Having spent three days watching online debates on the Prorogation of Parliament case, I must say it’s been the most high-level case I could observe and study since the failed Project of Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004-5). Issues the SP is…

Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it
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Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it

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A few facts to help and think about. At reason, we know that looking at facts is the beginning of the understanding of a topic, and an issue if it is seen as such. The Global Carbon Atlas is a good place to start when looking at facts about CO2 emissions. The below map shows the 2017 world’s…