We explore the challenges with INTEGRATION projects in an organisational context
Category: Analysis
Wake up Britain. You are a #TAX Haven too!!!
#Tax #avoidance and clambering on the tax bashing bandwagon has been all the rage since the HSBC private bank revelations. We try to put some perspective on the matter
Expectations: Mis-sold
We are picking up on a theme we have been experiencing and confirmed by this HBR article published in 2012: Job and Career seeker’s unfulfilled EXPECTATIONS The word expectation has several meanings, amongst them words like hope, belief, prospect and even probability. It is interesting that if you were to consider these four other … Continue reading Expectations: Mis-sold
Cre8ing #Context – A reflection on #Marketing
Creating Context and focusing on Simplicity in getting your message across in a very noisy external world.
Thoughts on 2014 – Moral Hazard PLUS – Part 1
Reflections on 2014 As a behaviourally focused economics publication we have been very quiet and inactive during 2014. A year of reflection and introspection, however, we are ready to resume service, with vigour. And what better way to start than with a reflective piece and thoughts on the biggest risk we believe are developing under … Continue reading Thoughts on 2014 – Moral Hazard PLUS – Part 1
Technical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)
The real challenge and issue: The US Debt default that is looming ever larger with each passing day that the US Congress, Senate and White House seem to treat as a brinkmanship fatigue challenge will have a specific default structure or process attached to it, that the rest of the world needs to get to … Continue reading Technical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)
US Treasury Yield Curve – The Shutdown Analysis (Part 1)
Today we very briefly focus on the dynamics we have observed in the US Treasury Yield Curve between two critical dates: 1. The Yield Curve at 30 September 2013 - The day before the US government shutdown officially began 2. Friday 11 October 2013, exactly 11 days into the White House, Congress and Senate stand-off … Continue reading US Treasury Yield Curve – The Shutdown Analysis (Part 1)
Immediacy – Analysing the Behavioural Dimensions
The problem of getting too distracted by constantly fire-fighting in business settings We might have heard it referred to as phrases such as "blinkered vision, short-term thinking", possibly even "tunnel vision" or something similar; however the challenges of Immediacy is (1) the hidden cost and (2) damage it does to our organisations and culture within those … Continue reading Immediacy – Analysing the Behavioural Dimensions
The Kuznets swing and the market for labour and skills
The changing way labour and skills markets operate and are being disrupted by on-line exchanges and cloud computing 'enablement' technologies
Pony ponderings…
Have you ever overheard a small debate between children related to #economics? Some at theMarketSoul (c)1999 -2013 find themselves in Spain this weekend, relaxing with family and the following conversation between young siblings are worth repeating. In some bizarre way, it relates to labour economics and the minimum wage: We had just observed a single horse … Continue reading Pony ponderings…
Dysfunctional, “Disinterested” and Disenfranchised
Let Collaboration trump the three Destructive "D" words in organisational life...
The Inverse Relationship
Cost control and the Inverse Relationship with the (Learning) Experience Curve
Where will all the new money come from?
THIS POST IS A YEAR IN THE MAKING. We discovered it unpublished in our web archive today and as the theme is still very relevant today, we decided to publish it: Today’s brief analysis of US Treasury Yield curves and the Debt profiles of both the USA and Italy highlights the enduring question in the … Continue reading Where will all the new money come from?
The Future is Collaboration
Understanding the collaborative mind-set of the future
An Ownership Revolution is required
We have been following the G20 'get those naughty multinationals in the tax tent' debates raging for a few months now, with amusement we have to add; here at theMarketSoul and have the following short thought piece to contribute to the debate. We know the 'outrage' really is all about the what the OECD calls … Continue reading An Ownership Revolution is required
Behavioural Consequences – The UK Bond Market Rigging Scandal
Thoughts on over regulation and disincentives
US Treasury Yield Curves – Revisited mid July 2013
US Treasury Yield Curves - Mid July 2013 Analysis
Hidden ‘cost’ of Opportunity Cost
...picking our way through Opportunity Cost and choice...
Are we all ‘Process Junkies?’
Business Process Design - The risks we run
Hiatus over!
Do we understand the Kuznets swing?