Quite often at Clare Associates we find ourselves picking up the pieces of previous attempts to solve business problems, especially with the company website. Usually these problems can be traced back to the decisions taken when this website was first developed. The first type of business has money to spend, but no time. They say… Continue reading Some businesses throw money at a problem; some businesses throw time at a problem. There is a third way…
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Making Websites Work
Opportunity Cost Part Two
If you didn’t see the first post on opportunity cost, you need to read that first. It is here. For those of you who have read that post, let’s continue… If you remember, in part 1 of this article, I asked you to consider this scenario: You’ve just won a ticket to see… Continue reading Opportunity Cost Part Two
Important Economics Concepts Every Businessman Should Know, Number 1: Opportunity Cost
Let’s say you pay your office cleaners £20 to clean the office each night. You could actually clean the entire office yourself and you wouldn’t have to pay anyone £20, just a few quid on cleaning consumables, dusters etc. Now you know that the reason you don’t is because it would take you a couple of hours to do… Continue reading Important Economics Concepts Every Businessman Should Know, Number 1: Opportunity Cost
Do you want a Concorde website or a 747 website?
This BBC website article annoyed me when I saw it a while back. Or at least, not the article so much but the examples of “good design” in the accompanying photographs. So that’s a bunch of ugly, hard, uncomfortable plastic chairs and a stupidly expensive, noisy and uncomfortable plane. Is this really “good design”?