Management Skills

MBA Refresher – Pricing, Innovation, Leadership and Technology

AMBA (Association of MBAs) puts on great regular events for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and amazingly they are mostly free to members. Last year’s MBA refresher (http://kimtasso.com/association-of-mbas-refresher-event-banks-innovation-entrepreneurs-and-coaching) was excellent so I was excited when I arrived at Imperial College on 4th September. Here’s a summary of what was covered. Pricing to Read More

2013-08-09T19:20:38+01:00September 9, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Case Study – UK tax rates app from Haines Watts accountants

I am still receiving additional material to supplement  the White Paper (Apps by UK law, accountancy and property firms – Are we missing the digital revolution?) http://kimtasso.com/white-paper-apps-by-uk-law-accountancy-and-property-firms-are-we-missing-the-mobile-revolution Thanks to Samantha Davies, National Marketing Manager Haines Watts, for this case study. Here is the link to the app on their website http://www.hwca.com/clients/tax-publications/tax-rates-app/ Read More

McKinsey’s “Managing the strategy journey” says spend more time on strategy

An interesting paper from the masters of strategy arrived earlier this month. The essence of their previous argument was that “the only way to set strategy effectively during uncertain times was to bring together, much more frequently, the members of the top team, who were uniquely positioned to surface critical Read More

2024-04-16T21:04:31+01:00August 2, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Strategy|

Creativity – the experts’ view

The favourite of all the many courses I have studied was the creativity and innovation module in my MBA. So it was interesting to read about a creativity roundtable of leading academics from innovation, psychology and creative writing backgrounds in a recent edition of the Open University’s Open Minds magazine. Read More

2015-12-11T17:41:39+00:00July 20, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing|

Mischcon de Reya – a law firm that seems to have got it right?

As I have blogged before about Mischon de Reya, (most recently http://kimtasso.com/collaborative-marketing-of-family-law-services-debretts-and-mishcon-de-reya and http://kimtasso.com/legal-marketing-case-study-mishcon-de-reya) it was interesting to read the article about the firm in a recent edition of The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/reya-light/1013344.article Some of the key themes that emerge as to the key to its success include: A strong managing partner Read More

2013-08-08T19:57:23+01:00July 20, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|
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