Relationship management is a tricky business at the best of times. As Mark Reckless follows Douglas Carswell in defecting to UKIP, we take a look at the challenges facing the Conservative Party, and how they’ve handled them to date, to see if there are any lessons we can learn in relationship management. ‘Defections, defections, defections’. We could […]
Phones 4U has been forced into bankruptcy. It has been the worst month imaginable for the company, rapidly shifting from being a profitable company whose future seemed secure, to a retailer with nothing to sell. Things were going so well a few months ago. The company was profitable – incredibly so having made over £100million […]
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has left Ferrari. After 31 years with the brand, the President of the company’s departure seems a little odd. He initially called a press conference to confirm that he would be seeing out the remainder of his three year contract at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, only to be immediately […]
There has never been anything quite like it. NATO is coming to Newport, and they’re bringing an army. Not of soldiers (although there will be no small number of soldiers there): World leaders, politicians, foreign defence officials, staffers, advisers, journalists, industry representatives, and protesters are arriving in their masses, and they’re causing quite a stir. […]