Strategic and financial advisory firm Pottinger has established a Singapore presence in response to strong Asia-Pacific demand for its services, including a notable success with the Chinese Government.
Pottinger, established 10 years ago by Nigel Lake and Cassandra Kelly, will use the Singapore company as a flagship for new international business and to service current clients in China, Japan, the Middle East and the US.
When GTNT (Group Training Northern Territory) recognised that ageing computer hardware and unreliable Internet services caused regular outages that made it difficult to share information between offices and sometimes even pay apprentices, largest employer of apprentices in the NT turned to Calvert Technologies which solved these problems by refreshing hardware and migrating the company to a fully private network utilising Telstra’s infrastructure.
Nigel Lake, Joint CEO of strategic and financial advisory firm Pottinger, warns that conventional business decision-making is stifling innovation and threatening successful businesses with disaster.
Nigel, a regular business commentator on ABC TV and radio, said although applying scientific method and economic theory to business has brought much needed rigour to business decision-making, this had come at a price. “It has also stifled innovation and encouraged tactics so short term that some of the world's largest companies have been destroyed in a matter of months or even weeks,” he says.
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