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  • In a crisis of reputation and trust, the personal touch is everything

    The horsemeat scandal in Europe continues at the centre stage of attention with more bad news appearing almost daily in lurid newspaper headlines like those above in some UK tabloids as more beef products contaminated with horsemeat are discovered in…

  • Unwelcome brand recognition

    The scare in the UK about horsemeat in food products that are supposedly made from beef presents real issues for the brands concerned. The latest news is about Findus UK which makes beef lasagne products. Media reports everywhere are about…

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  • When robots rule the world

    The idea that computers rather than people could make decisions about other people’s intentions in the workplace that I wrote about recently – an IBM security tool can flag “disgruntled employees” – may be the tip of an evolutionary iceberg…

  • The arrival of the dystopian workplace

    Maybe it’s because I’m currently reading 1984 by George Orwell on my Kindle – the first time I’ve read the book since the early 1980s – but this report in The Wall Street Journal that an IBM security tool can…

  • Shape the debate about the UK and the EU

    A few days ago, Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech in London on what he called “the future of Europe,” setting out his stall about the UK, the European Union, Europe itself and how he sees the future for…

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