I read this morning, with some interest, a web page[1] summarising a recent survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit[2]. Broadly, this survey looks at the perceived role of HR in a recession taking the perspectives of both business executives and HR executives. The survey points to a number of issues […]
In my last entry I focused on looking at behaviours and responses to the downturn from a B2B perspective – judging the likely winners and losers amongst business customers. But what about consumers? Will their attitudes change? My argument is that the deeper the recession runs and the longer that […]
Overview This briefing takes the view that recessions are times of change, or, to use the words of the economist Joseph Schumpeter, creative destruction[1]. If recession brings creative destruction, or the search for new solutions, then established organisations might well be vulnerable to competitors, new entrants and upstarts who spot […]