Many companies claim they're "customer-focused", but they consistently fail to deliver solutions to their customers' pressing problems. The reason? They're trapped by organizational silos that prevent them from finding out wha ...

A new Inquiry has been jointly launched by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) to encourage closer integrated working between the two professions, loca ...

As ActionCoach founder Brad Sugars visits Ireland next week (see coming events), here is a ten step approach to surviving the downturn from US ActionCoach Mark Tobiassen.

Guy Kawasaki recently published this list of ten tiny things that every small business owner should do in 2009—hopefully in early 2009. Don't consider it a New Year's resolution because there's a whole psychology behind such th ...

Every business wants to promote its web site. And few want to spend much money doing it. Robin Moore of Red Rhino Web Design has ten starter tips to bring business to your website......

In the second part of this popular series, John Bourke, a leading specialist in pharmacy strategy further explores the concept of creating new and innovative spaces for pharmacy...

What has blue oceans and retail pharmacy got in common? More than you think! In this first part, John Bourke explores the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy and how retail pharmacy could apply its principles to achieve a competitiv ...

There are many lessons businesses can draw from the sporting arena, as Genesis Strategic consultant Brian McNeice and Adrian Burrell, former coach of the Irish Cricket team demonstrated at a recent MBA Association Guest Speaker ...

Today, little companies often make more money than big companies. Little churches grow faster than worldwide ones. Little jets are way faster (door to door) than big ones. Seth Godin, marketing guru and "the prime minister of ...

From Jon Bon Jovi to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Robin Sharma's fan base is diverse. The man behind the bestselling "The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari" is in Ireland this week for two event dates - in Dublin (18th ...

Control freaks, thrill seekers, excessive egotists – what is the true personality of the entrepreneur? Professor Manfred Kets de Vries of European business school INSEAD should know – he has spent two decades studying the speci ...

At the recent IPOS conference, leading international analyst and consultant Bruce Annabel drew parallels between the recent past in Australian pharmacy and the current climate for pharmacy in Ireland. He demonstrated to delegat ...

It's called testing and measuring. Most people hate it. That's because it means there is a chance, however remote, that every marketing strategy you try will not work the first time. In other words, it's possible you'll spend ...

Barry Walsh is a founder member of the ground-breaking Burren Leadership Forum, which emphasizes authentic leadership styles and mindfulness, and an advisor on people development to many of Ireland's most progressive SMEs. Here ...

Getting into business is one thing, but savvy entrepreneurs know that an exit strategy is the most important part of the business plan. Sell up, pass on, merge or morph into something else – but don't stagnate. Martin Crilly lo ...

Interestingly, the most successful people make decisions quickly and change them slowly. They persist with the decisions they have made. However, failures are very slow to make any decision at all (most never make any), and the ...

Nominated twice for the Pulitzer prize, Daniel Goleman's ground breaking international bestseller Emotional Intelligence transformed the way the world educates its children, relates to family and does business. Recently in Dubl ...

With a promise to unleash the inner entrepreneur, to get you ahead in business without an MBA, the latest Trump University book is surprisingly down to earth and full of commonsense. Buy the book at Wiley www.wiley.com....

Newsflash: if you want to be really great, in business, or in anything else, you have to be AUTHENTIC. So say Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, ranked amongst the world's top thought leaders, co-authors of business bestseller "Why S ...