Is Alan Joyce to blame for the Qantas fiasco?

Is Alan Joyce to blame for the Qantas fiasco?

  Qantas is at the centre of a political, legal, and social bunfight. On Tuesday 13th, (Sept 2023) Qantas lost an appeal in the High Court, being found guilty of sacking almost 1,700 Qantas workers illegally, replacing them with staff from labour hire businesses....

6 strategies to assist pricing for creativity 

6 strategies to assist pricing for creativity 

  Creativity comes from somewhere; the challenge is always to understand and manage the process and the people. This applies equally to every type of creativity, from painting, writing poetry, formulating the mathematical representations of our physical world, to...

The 2 mutually reinforcing ingredients to success:

The 2 mutually reinforcing ingredients to success:

    If there is a magic ingredient to success, it is captured in two words: 'Leverage' and 'Compounding'. We all understand the concept of leverage, using a small amount of force to generate a larger outcome. Compounding is a little more difficult to...

What could be true?

What could be true?

    If strategy is all about choice, and I strongly contend that is so, the challenge for responsible management is to imagine first what those choices may be. This ambiguous mindset requiring choices to be made with less than full information never happens...

Can AI be ‘Creative?

Can AI be ‘Creative?

  Marketers have outsourced creative development to specialists from the beginning of media advertising in the late 1800's. Correctly, there was a realisation that it was a specialist skill, not easily found, nurtured, and leveraged. Amongst the daily advertising...

The marketing “C-word”

The marketing “C-word”

    Context. The word is ‘Context’ Marketing is a fundamental contributor to our commercial lives. It is about defining and leveraging the value you create for another, for which they are prepared to pay, while not being about the transaction. The beach and...

Does Wright’s Law work in reverse?

Does Wright’s Law work in reverse?

    Volume, flow, and capacity utilisation are drivers of each other, a symbiotic relationship articulated by Wrights Law. A product with significant volume that is easy to schedule through a factory, and because of those volumes, has 'well-oiled' and...

My website ‘Vegemite’ test

My website ‘Vegemite’ test

    When my kids dropped a piece of toast, or bread on the floor (almost always spread side down) we used to invoke the '3 second test’. This was simply that the bugs took three seconds to wake up and realise there was a feed nearby, so if it was retrieved...

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