Business model

By Fiona Czerniawska

Will it get off the runway?

By Fiona Czerniawska

Consulting isn’t so much an industry as a collection of people in search of interesting work and a bit of cash.  Try to orchestrate this activity within a consulting firm and the phrase you’re most likely to come across is ‘herding cats’.  Whether you’re trying to build consensus around a particular strategy or simply get people into a meeting, ‘it’s like herding cats.”  Cats, of course, are a nice analogy to make: cats are smart and sleek; they lend grace and charm to the houses they inhabit and – if their owners are lucky – catch a few mice into the bargain.

By Fiona Czerniawska

Around 540 million years ago, the earth was a seething cauldron of innovation.  Up to this point, most organisms were simple, single-cell affairs, but in the course of around 80 million years (the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms), life as we know it, with all its incredible diversity, simply happened.  Theories abound about what happened and why, but it may have simply been that our distant forebears had reached a tipping point – and the blobs suddenly became complex bodies.