Flight of Fancy
The Harriers will be decommissioned in 2011 to be replaced by the Joint Strike Fighter by the end of the decade. Axing the Harrier is set to save £450m over the…
Oh Dear…
Here at Zeitgeist we like to talk about the 'facts of business life' and one of those facts and indeed certainties is our ability to be side-swiped, T-boned or catapulted…
Values versus Violence
In the traditionally macho country of Mexico the new police chief has many detractors and time will tell if such a radical and non-traditional appointment can be…
The Knowledge
This simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn…
Generation R
“First there was Generation X and Y, now there is Generation R,” Gill Plimmer wrote in The Financial Times: “a term coined to describe frustrated professionals…
Death by Internet
As we see Blockbuster’s strategy so blatantly exposed by this filing, it is a good reminder for other businesses to spend due time and consideration on strategic…
The ‘Not so Local’ Bank
The posturing over future banking regulations continues to make headlines. The latest episode in the UK sees HSBC threatening to move its Head Office to the Far…
Achieving Par
For those of you thinking we are about to offer some latest golf tips, we’re sorry but you’re going to be disappointed. The ‘par’ we are talking about is…
Moore no More?
Now, although this is somewhat embarrassing to admit - we find supercomputers rather fascinating and the developments in computing power never cease to amaze us.…
Cultivating Culture
There is no subject quite like Bullfighting for stirring the emotions and very few people remain ambivalent. You either support it as ‘art’ and part of the rich…