In the summer of 2017 Burberry made the headlines for having destroyed £28m of (unsold) stock to guard against counterfeits – a practice understood to be common across the retail industry. According to the Times, more than £90m of Burberry…
MICHAEL DONALDSON Improving the performance of your business by improving the performance of your people, the profitability of your products and the productivity of your process.
THE VALUE INNOVATOR – Improving the performance of your business.
Five step process to successful Range Management
Tagged with: excess stock, SMEs
Posted in Brand Management, Customer Centricity, Process Management, product, Range Management
Posted in Brand Management, Customer Centricity, Process Management, product, Range Management
Your business may have grown, but have you?
Rodney is 77 years old, and as we chatted it was clear he had experienced life – not in terms of the trappings of career progression and boardroom status but his grey hair, wrinkled face, and twinkling eyes said he…
Key Decision Maker assumptions,questions,tips.
How to increase the success rate of your decision making. Key decision makers are a rare breed, rarely seen outside the confines of their immediate environment; they are creatures of habit and have exhaustive memories of what does and doesn’t…
Tagged with: Engagement, networking, self development
Posted in Business Growth, Decision Making, Engagement
Posted in Business Growth, Decision Making, Engagement
The most frequently asked questions since 2013
5 years ago I started my own company, The Value Innovator. The website went live in August 2013 and my first invoice was posted in October 2013 – its been a journey of twists and turns, ups and downs but…
Disruptive Diplomat, Disruptive Influencer, Disruptive Danger – You Decide.
The morning after the Brexit vote I received a smug email from an American friend which said, “the Brits had lost their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are”. I had to wait almost 6…
Has the internet KILLED the Sales Professional?
I suppose I first learnt the art of sales from Bob-a-Job week, from there I started my own car washing business – me with bucket and sponge in hand, knocking on neighbour’s doors and offering to wash their cars; in…
Tagged with: Gavin Ingham, Lee Lawson, Phil Hesketh, SALES, Steve Edge
Posted in Business Growth, internet, Sales People, Sales Training
Posted in Business Growth, internet, Sales People, Sales Training
A career choice requires courage and confidence.
In the next 2 years 40% of people in the UK are planning a career change and are already working on their exit plan, and the 47% who do not find their work fulfilling owe it to themselves to consider…
Tagged with: career choice, exit plan, great escape, self audit
Posted in Career Management, Decision Making
Posted in Career Management, Decision Making
