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Banning canaries in mineshafts isn't a kindness
Category: Blog/Analysis
... boom that ended so badly in 2008. If everyone is piling in to subprime debt and making money, the junior fund-manager that calls this strategy into question is going to be pilloried, not promoted. Which ... Thursday, 01 July 2010 -
The right to sell is no different if you're a farmer, or a doctor
Category: Blog/Analysis
... is clearly quite worried about this. Dr Olive Shisana, CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council, and head of an ANC task team which is outlining government’s new health strategy, has declared it “ridiculous” ... Thursday, 24 September 2009 -
Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
Category: Blog/Analysis
... going business and use the protected cash-savings to re-invest. Fortunately for HCI’s shareholders, Copelyn is pragmatic enough not to mix his sound-bites with his business strategy. After Seardel, ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 -
Consulting is the partnership of Information and Ideas
Category: Overview/Services
Whythawk believes in an unbiased approach to consulting. Our analytical systems for comparison and forecasting allow us to analyse the efficiency of our client’s strategy implementation. We then guide ... Thursday, 16 July 2009 -
Comparisons are essential for Strategy and Risk Management
Category: Overview/Services
Whythawk believes in an unbiased approach to data analysis. Our unique ratings methodology – the Bue System – is designed to allow rapid, consistent and objective comparisons of large and complex data ... Thursday, 16 July 2009 -
What we do
Category: Overview/Services
... then guide clients in aligning the implementation of their strategy with their objectives. ... Thursday, 16 July 2009 -
Market share threat requires complex analysis
Category: Projects Delivered/Companies
A global medical company finds that their market share is under threat across Europe from cheap manufacturers of their ubiquitous medical devices; Approach: Strategy of conversion from manufacturing ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
Consulting is the partnership of Information and Ideas
Category: Products & Services/Consulting
... highlighted and addressed. Whythawk believes in an unbiased approach to consulting. Our analytical systems for comparison and forecasting allow us to analyse the efficiency of our client’s strategy ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
Comparisons are essential for Strategy and Risk Management
Category: Products & Services/Comparisons
The elements of business strategy are first, the measurement of space; second, the estimation of quantities; third, calculations; fourth, comparisons; and fifth, chances of success. Measurements of space ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
About Whythawk
Category: Products & Services/Consulting
... aligning the implementation of their strategy with their objectives. Unbiased approach to data analysis; Quantify market aspirations, and the capacity to meet these aspirations; Investigate and ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
Steve Jobs, Apple and the CEO's Dilemma
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and explore his passion. His business strategy is a consummate lesson to leaders around the world: he decides what he wants to produce, and then he chooses his customers. He does not waiver in that ... Wednesday, 18 March 2009 -
Apple, the destroyer of comfort-zones
Category: Blog/Analysis
More dangerous than it looks... The music industry has been an unhappy one for almost a decade. Music sales are worth some $ 17.6 billion, but that is 10% down in just the last four years. For every ... Tuesday, 02 September 2008 -
The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
Category: Blog/Analysis
... fault. They should have invested in more efficient, lean manufacturing systems, designed more interesting vehicles, or come up with a better strategy. That shareholders should lose their investments ... Wednesday, 27 August 2008 -
Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
Category: Blog/Analysis
... on Eskom for electricity. Eskom is largely state-owned and their pricing and investment strategy are controlled by the government. Plenty has already been discussed in the press regarding President Thabo ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008 -
Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
Category: Blog/Analysis
... is clearly shaken by his challenge. This is shown by their main campaign strategy which is to decampaign Makoni. Of late, Zanu PF has resorted to discrediting Makoni as an unfit candidate, flighting ... Saturday, 15 March 2008 -
The spectre of loyalty over ability
Category: Blog/Analysis
... identifying problems in their employer's strategy, or producing radical new innovations that contradict the prevailing way of doing things? Usually they're just ignored. Too much of the South ... Tuesday, 18 September 2007 -
Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
Category: Blog/Analysis
... like Jo'burgers visiting Cape Town, foreigners will be so impressed by what they see they will want to invest. Who knows, despite the obvious failures of government strategy on AIDS and Zimbabwe, ... Wednesday, 05 September 2007 -
Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
Category: Blog/Analysis
... that there is clearly a competitive advantage in dropping those walls. Basic business strategy has always said that the easier one makes it to arrive or leave, then the lower the switching cost - that's ... Friday, 03 August 2007 -
Atlas Shrugged at 50
Category: Blog/Analysis
... form of the non-objective." It is a simple enough strategy. Whenever others demand of me that I make available the products of my mind and receive their need in payment I simply say, "No." ... Sunday, 29 July 2007 -
South Africa's two tiers
Category: Blog/Analysis
... majority, and the expense of joining the formal sector, has led to dramatic informal sector growth. So much so that this has been used to plug holes in government's job creation strategy. From Deputy ... Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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