In our Income/Outcome business acumen workshops we teach the difference between budgeting and forecasting from a top-down as opposed to a bottom-up process. In our view, top-down relates to forecasting results when the future sales are already known, and you … Read More
Doing is Believing! Get your D.I.B.s on Teamwork! Teamwork. It’s one of the business competencies that gets bandied about a lot and has a lot of different connotations depending on your definition of “team,” which has gotten more complex as … Read More
We often look at business acumen as a group of business skills competencies including finance, strategy and decision-making. Today I was reviewing some post-workshop comments from an Income/Outcome program in Japan, and I realized that ‘big picture understanding’ may not … Read More
Business acumen is “keenness and speed in understanding and deciding on a business situation.” Companies want to develop these traits, especially in their senior managers – but also in the workforce at large. Most companies would like a corporate culture that nurtures … 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
Eagle’s Flight Team Building France takes its name from one of its simulation suppliers, the Canadian company whose best-known product is probably “Gold of the Desert Kings”. As Eagle’s Flight focuses on soft skills like Team-Building, Andromeda’s simulations are a … Read More
For the third time in four years we congratulate Spain for producing the winning team in a top football championship. The real delight in watching them is the quality of their play – clean, generous and highly skilled. They play … Read More