Anyone can spend a budget, but can they get an ROI?

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Newsletter, Strategy, Value Building

Andrew Bass’s Pragmatics Newsletter August 2013 Practical techniques and thought-provoking ideas Main article takes under 4 minutes to read. Subscribe at www.bassclusker.com/newsletter: https://staging-2.bassclusker.com//newsletter Please pass this on to colleagues who you think will find it interesting: ‘sharing’ link in the Read More

A Tough Competitor

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Innovation, Strategy, Value Building

Your biggest competitor is often “We’ll do it ourselves” or “We’ll do without”. You address this by understanding your customer better. This is a totally different approach to competition from looking across at rivals and trying to do what they Read More

What slows leadership 'teams' down?

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Change-&-Persistence, Collaboration across the organization, From Strategy to Action, Newsletter, Teams and joint decision-making

Andrew Bass’s Pragmatics Newsletter July 2013 Practical techniques and thought-provoking ideas Main article takes under 4 minutes to read. Subscribe at www.bassclusker.com/newsletter: https://staging-2.bassclusker.com//newsletter Please pass this on to colleagues who you think will find it interesting: ‘sharing’ link in the Read More

Co-hosting TEDxBrum

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog

I had the great pleasure of co-hosting TEDxBrum with Helga Henry at Birmingham’s Millennium Point on 8th June. The theme was “Marking the Map”, and featured speakers across a typically wide range of issues, including the intelligent interpretation of big Read More

Let's not let the data blind us to the obvious

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Getting good information, Self-created Problems

There’s a story today on the BBC that schools are failing the brightest pupils – this is according to a new report from Ofsted, the UK’s schools inspectorate. The article includes various responses to the report. They are all in generic  ‘press release Read More