Happy New Year! Andromeda had a record year in 2013, with the highest number of workshops taught, and unprecedented reporting of hard financial benefits from Income/Outcome by our clients. We hope to provide even stronger benefits to our clients in … Read More
At Andromeda we joke about workshops being both “Finance for Non-Finance Managers” and “Non-Finance for Finance Managers”. What do we mean by that? (To coin a phrase.) Nikolai ran a workshop this week for a client – a quick 4-hour … Read More
Business acumen is a subject that we normally teach within Fortune 500 companies like HP, Abbott Labs, Heinz and Ashland, or in academic programs like the Executive MBAs at Cornell-Queen’s, Kennesaw State and Villanova. However we also provide pro bono … Read More
Doing Is Believing: Get Your D.I.B.s on Business Acumen! How can experiential learning highlight the key components of business acumen? How should business acumen be understood by managers? How can they enhance their skills, and achieve better results for the … Read More
Doing is Believing. Seeing is believing is what we usually hear, but there is just no substitute for “doing.” So if “Doing is Believing,”… THEN after you DO you “have D.I.B.s” on whatever it is that you’ve done! And we … Read More
For those who feel that the technological marvels foreseen in the 1950s have failed to materialize, the heartfelt cry is “Where’s my flying car?” Well, yes, the Terrafugia Transition is here. They’ll cost around $300,000 when they’re in regular production. … Read More
The “Entrepreneurial Challenge” version of Income/Outcome is now being scheduled as a 5-hour evening session by Andromeda Simulations Arabia, and headlined as “The 5-hour MBA”. This shortest version of our workshops has elements of both fun: and serious planning and … Read More
To a lot of people working in large (and not so large) businesses, the word “Finance” means one of two things: the whole time-consuming, confidence-threatening mess of numbers associated with budgets, plans or – argh! – ratios (or even worse … Read More
The Economist had a recent leader (editorial) headed Visas for entrepreneurs: Let the job-creators in. This in turn was triggered by an article in the same issue, looking at the initiatives of Chile and other countries to attract entrepreneurial immigrants … Read More
Business acumen: “Keenness and speed in understanding and deciding on a business situation.” The need for this is particularly strong when your industry is being unexpectedly disrupted. You might think that disruptions are essentially driven by technological change, and therefore usually only … Read More