by wiadmin | Mar 17, 2016 | Leadership
Guest Post by David Burkus In February 2006, Vineet Nayar, the president and CEO of HCL Technologies, one of the largest IT service providers in India, made a shocking announcement to a global meeting of their biggest customers. In short, he told them that they were...
by wiadmin | Oct 13, 2015 | Customer Loyalty
“Every business must serve a social purpose”. These are not the words of a social campaigner or a politician; they are the words of a banker, Ashok Vaswani, the CEO of Retail and Business Banking at Barclays, one of the world’s largest banks. Barclays has been...
by wiadmin | Sep 2, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
The sweet spot is that place where a combination of factors result in the optimum response for a given amount of effort. It is a phrase particularly used in sports. It is the spot on the golf club or tennis racket where the intersection of the ball with the effort of...
by wiadmin | Jun 3, 2014 | Leadership
Sony was founded in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997) as a small electronics shop in a bomb-damaged department store building in Tokyo. The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees. The radios they manufactured at the time were, like most around the...
by wiadmin | Feb 18, 2014 | Customer Loyalty, Leadership
Take a look at a short list of renowned service innovators: Despite a Yale professor’s admonition that there was little practical about his theory, Fred Smith put his “C–” paper into operation and founded Federal Express (now FedEx). Michael Dell transformed a...
