Chris Perfect

What’s More Important, that an Organization Learns or that Its People Do?

At a recent strategy forum in Houston I was struck by something that Latha Ramchand said about the role of learning. Dr Ramchand is Dean at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business and was part of a panel discussing, amongst other things, factors essential to an organization’s long-term growth. She proposed training as one ofContinue reading “What’s More Important, that an Organization Learns or that Its People Do?”

Capita – The (Painful) Limit to Diversification as a Growth Strategy

Last week saw UK company Capita make one of the frankest admissions of failure in corporate strategy that I’ve seen in some time. Jonathan Lewis, the company’s recently appointed CEO, announced to London’s investment community that “significant change” is required and that the company – which employs about 70,000 people and has annual revenues of approximately £5bn ($6.9bn)Continue reading “Capita – The (Painful) Limit to Diversification as a Growth Strategy”