By Tara Lajumoke What does it take to capture and grow your share of the $275 billion subscription economy? Over the past decade, the subscription economy has experienced significant growth, consistently expanding five-to-eight times faster than traditional businesses, according to industry research. So it’s no surprise that we are seeing a proliferation of business categories…
TO SAUDI ARABIA, Qatar is little more than a sore thumb sticking out into the Persian Gulf. For decades the kingdom has looked down on its neighbour as an irritating pipsqueak, with which it has little in common except the desert. Saudi Arabia has historically cut more of a dash in global affairs; the vast…
SMARTPHONES ABLE to take advantage of zippy fifth-generation (5G) mobile telephony have graced American pockets since 2019. Samsung launched its first 5G-enabled device in April that year. Apple followed suit in late 2020 with its long-awaited 5G iPhone. Until now, however, actual 5G coverage in America has been limited. The country’s three biggest carriers, AT&T,…
AS VIOLINS PLAY mournfully, Jon Stewart, an American comic, makes a mock-emotional appeal to viewers. “Every year thousands of hours of high-quality content go unwatched,” he says seriously. “Because good, hard-working people… don’t know how to find Apple TV+.”Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support…
Stress and exhaustion are big factorsRESTAURANT AND hotel bosses have had a tough year. Some 700,000 hospitality workers threw in the towel on average each month in the past year. Bars, cafés and eateries are 1.3m workers short relative to the 16.9m employed before covid-19. On January 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that…
As disturbing world events continue to unfold, it’s understandable that your team’s minds are elsewhere. As a manager, what can you do to support your team right now? How do you balance the need for compassion with the need to still get work done? The author offers recommendations for how to manage through uncertain times.…
Companies often have difficulty talking with customers about prices, because price is often an obstacle to a sale. That leads some companies to use pricing tricks that conceal the true cost or otherwise mislead customers. That’s a mistake. This article offers guidelines companies should follow as they rethink pricing strategies, particularly in a time of…
Investing in sustainable funds that prioritize ESG goals is supposed to help improve the environmental and social sustainability of business practices. Unfortunately, close analysis suggests that it’s not only not making much difference to companies’ actual ESG performance, it may actually be directing capital into poor business performers. As of December 2021, assets under management at…
For the past few years, we’ve been experiencing collective trauma. But trauma is not new in our organizations, and it’s not going away, either. Estimates are that six in 10 men and five in 10 women experience at least one trauma, and approximately 6% of the population will experience PTSD at some point in their lives.…
IN THE EARLY 1970s a handful of former employees at IBM, then the world’s biggest computer-maker, spent weeks pulling double shifts. During the day they quizzed the workers at a nylon plant in southern Germany about what exactly made their factory tick. At night they painstakingly turned this knowledge into code and tested it. The…