Interesting, of the top-100 brands and product categories in a new ranking of customer loyalty leaders, forty-five percent (45%) are tech companies engaged in digital, mobile, and social networks. The real question is, what are you doing to improve customer engagement which will, in turn, increase loyalty? Loyal customers always...

Writing a best-selling novel, learning to fly, traveling the world, enjoying a cruise, learning a language, and plans to fall in love are among the retired population's top-40 most favoured bucket list items, according to a new research. A new thrill-seeking "bucket list" of items is compiled by YouGov, on...

Risk mitigation is one of the C-suite’s most important responsibilities in the financial sector. But increased regulation and the complexity of OTC derivatives contracts have made it even more difficult for financial organizations to manage the risks associated with ISDA contracts and the derivatives trading process. Like it or not,...

What Apple, Coca Cola and Virgin have in common is that they are world renowned and respected brands. What most people don’t realise is that they could be more successful at work if they created their own personal brand - ‘brand you’. Developing a personal brand can be particularly useful...

Ventas Chairman and CEO Debra Cafaro and Carol Meyrowitz, CEO of TJX took the #27 and #51 spots, respectively, on Harvard Business Review's "100 most effective CEOs in the world" list. It would be obvious for anyone to see that the list is dominated by male CEOs, only two of...

The Prince Of Pop Michael Jackson tops highest-earning dead celebrities in the world list of 2014 by Forbes magazine, with an estimated $140 million in earnings over the last 12 months. The King Of Rock And Roll died in 2009 from a drug overdose. He was 50 years old. Coming...

Well, no surprise there, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the “best perfoming CEOs in the world,” according to new rankings in the November issue of Harvard Business Review, even though he ranks among the lowest-compensated executives on the list. Second on the list is John Martin of Gilead Sciences, a...

It is not unusual to see a Starbucks line-up that is multiple people long, sometimes even bursting out onto the street. Coffee has become a daily essential for many people. It is now commonplace to have a coffee maker in every office, a coffee house on virtually every street corner...

Jim O’Neill, former Goldman Sachs chief economist, invented the most famous classification of emerging markets countries in a 2001 research note - Building Better Global Economic BRICs. He grouped together Brazil, Russia, India, and China as the world's emerging economic powerhouses. The original acronym "BRICs" became an association of emerging market...