Grid-Tools Blog

Ordinarily, ‘warehouse management systems’ might not be a subject that sets the pulse racing but as one UK company found, should a hitch occur, the result can hit a business’s bottom line very hard. Fashion retailer Supergroup had introduced new systems to help manage efficiencies and increased capacity – so far, so good, and eerily [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard that virtual monkeys are about to prove that given enough (virtual) typewriters and enough time, it is possible to reproduce the work of Shakespeare. The attempt used computer programmes issuing random nine characters long sequences of text. If a string of characters matches text found in the works of Shakespeare, then it [...]

Read any statement made by an organisation after a blunder has occurred and it is easy to marvel at the judicious use of bland phrasing. In ‘crisis management’, the first flurry of activity is almost invariably designed to buy time. Behind closed doors, there will be frantic scenes of accusation, investigation and counter-accusation. Perhaps there [...]

The hubbub surrounding the US Government’s impasse over raising its debt ceiling has made many of us aware of the mind-numbingly huge sums of money involved in government running costs but behind the headlines, there are issues pending that money alone may no longer be able to fix. At the start of the year, there [...]

The news that Tom Alexander is stepping down as chief executive of Everything Everywhere (the name of the company that was formed after the merger of Orange and T-Mobile) throws into question accepted wisdoms about the virtues of Mergers & Acquisitions. The reality is that a merger is no guarantee of healthy returns. Bigger does [...]

Question: What can’t any business do without? (And I mean all businesses, from sole traders to global corporations.) Well, a decent product is the first thought, make a table with four uneven legs and you may not have a future as a carpenter. But even if you make a fine table, one good product is [...]