Back to The Future: MeetTheBoss Interviews
In this week’s round-up, we take a sneak peak at a couple of big interviews on the radar. Listen up, shops. It’s not Christmas and we’re not buying any Santa hats, wrapping paper or faux-trees until at least the 24th December. Fortunately, you’ll only see such over-hyped nonsense in the world of bricks and mortar. When ...
MeetTheBoss eBook: Understanding The Cloud Journey
Welcome to the cloud. Would you like your service public, private or hybrid? Indeed, the three staples of cloud as we know them today are anything but. As organisations across the globe – agnostic of industry – jostle to define what the cloud means to them, the discussion continues in earnest for CIOs and Heads ...
150 Years On: Learning From Henry Ford
Few people have done more to shape the modern age than Henry Ford – industrialist, innovator and master of the pithy soundbite. Indeed, whatever you feel about Ford – and he is a somewhat divisive figure –there’s no denying his impact on both business thinking and the world we live in. Whether it’s revolutionising the manufacturing ...
Business Lessons from: Wimbledon
The All England Lawn Tennis Club annual tournament is in full ‘swing’ (excuse the pun – to warn you, there’ll be plenty more) and the use of exciting new technology to enhance the way people are able to consume the tournament, presents exciting opportunities for business. Wimbledon’s twenty-four year partnership with American multinational technology and consulting ...
Enterprise Social Collaboration: The Networked Organisation
McKinsey have recently release a study on the value of productivity through social technologies. The research is robust and worth a quick flick through. Why? Because it highlights what many of us have been saying for the last three to four years. What struck me most, however, was the statement that: “By 2011, 72% of companies ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Three
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...
Zappos.com: A Lesson in Leadership
If you ever wanted a lesson on good leadership, you’d be hard pushed to find one better than the awesome display of ingenuity displayed by Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com, last week. News transpired that internet retailer 6pm.com had, mistakenly priced almost all of its products at $49.99. The error was pretty unforgiving, given that some ...
Yabba Dabba Does It: Cartoons and Creative Thinking
The release of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park frankly terrified me. In 1993, as an eight-year-old child, it was the first time I had ever really been conscious of what dinosaurs were capable of. One scene in particular has forever plagued me. In it, child actors Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards are in the compound’s ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Two
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...