Wednesday’s presentation from the Ben & Jerry’s founders was certainly a popular event (I guess free icecream trumps the pain for many of us standing for an hour+). They told some fantastic tales of their almost accidental rise to fame and fortune. The main message of their talk was how a business...
Nov
27
PM Hut has a post on Managing By Exception. While the concepts posted there are good in “principle,” in “practice” more needs to be in place to keep the project on track. First there needs to be a set of clearly defined assessments of physical percent complete. Along with that some means of assessing...
Nov
26
Hot on the heels of Woolworth’s announced entrance into the Australian hardware retailing space, it would seem that fellow grocery player Metcash wants to follow suit. Metcash, who run all the back-office (and sales and marketing) for the independent supermarkets group IGA has launched a bid for Mitre 10, a cooperative...

