There’s one question for which everyone will give the same affirmative answer at the moment. Do you need more innovation in your business? Imagine saying “No, we have more than enough innovation, in fact we’ve got more innovation than we can manage”. You wouldn’t be much of a manager in this day and age if…

The latest Group M forecasts for 2012 for the UK arrived on my desk early last week.  There’s been a bit of publicity for the headlines, although not much has changed since the summer edition.  (http://www.groupm.com/pressandnews/details/733 , contact : publications.london@groupm.com) Despite the continued doldrums in which consumer confidence is mired the document is reasonably optimistic. …

It is not the Year of the mobile.  Lots of people have smart phones, tablets etc.  Nearly everything will be QR coded or the equivalent (yesterday I walked past a building site with a QR code the size of a window.  My companion asked “How is anyone going to scan that into their phone?”  The…

“In her case intensity was heaped on intensity”. This is Spectator columnist Bruce Anderson’s comment on the portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the movie Iron Lady. (http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/7482693/projecting-thatcher.thtml). He makes the point that for most politicians, once the business of the meeting is transacted there is an appropriate moment to lighten the mood. Not so for…