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Five ways to improve your business by admitting to mistakes

Mistakes are a fact of life. No matter how much you try, you can’t completely avoid making them. But, they can actually help to improve your company’s effectiveness and reputation if you handle them well

One source of truth

Supporting cross-border business growth with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) used to be the preserve of blue chip companies. However, a modular approach allows smaller firms to centralise, localise and scale as required

They only had one pig

Listening to your customers' recommendations will help tailor innovations to suit their needs, enhance product development to yield a higher payoff, and save you time in the process.

China's energy chess game

As China invests in North America and elsewhere in search of energy security, should the rest of the world be worried? 

Learning from the Fast Learners

Three lessons on how western companies can learn from the success of Chinese Second Mouse firms

Facebook or Face Time?

Why business relationships take more than texting, friending, and online “connecting”

Inspiration or aspiration?

Great leaders concentrate their energies on the things they are good at. They must also inspire others in their organisation to achieve greatness. 

The changing definition of security

As technology continues to advance with the growth of cloud computing and SaaS, data security needs to be at the forefront of every CIO, CEO and IT manager’s mind.

China: Two decades of change (part three)

The last in our three part series about market creation in China examines how selling has become an important business function.

Growth choices

Which aspects of your business offer the greatest growth potential? A systematic approach to making this judgement can help leaders feel less like gamblers.