Vlogger Doug Armstrong investigates the production process at McDonald’s to find out about the quality of their beef:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8VBYnByPds
Monday, 16 May 2016
McDonald's Production Chain
Monday, 9 May 2016
Friday, 29 April 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Not so silent running
A novel idea fro a Kickstarter firm to kill two birds with one stone: keeping fit and charging your iPhone:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35810137
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Driverless Trucks UK Trial
In the news: driverless trucks will be allowed on British roads.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35820873
As well as concerns about safety, this obviously will have long term implications for people employed as drivers, and if successful could be the beginning of the end for bus drivers and taxi drivers too. But will paying customers ever trust a driverless coach or taxi enough to get on? Well I have been on driverless metro trains abroad… though to be fair I probably didn’t realise it until after my journey had been completed!
We could be entering a legal minefield as well with the question of who is to be held accountable if something goes wrong not yet decided. Is it the company who provides the service or the software manufacturer?
Interesting times ahead.
Again with regards to PESTEC, think of all the external factors that will come in to play in the future of automated vehicles.
Seaworld ending Orca breeding
It has taken a while, but SeaWorld are to end its controversial Orca breeding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35829477
SeaWorld has come under a lot of pressure from protesters and the media after the documentary Blackfish.
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Monday, 15 February 2016
Kidzania
Inside the crazy world of Kidzania…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35531022
Where children work and have fun.
Monday, 25 January 2016
Edinburgh to London in 25 minutes?
A more localised version of the Hyperloop?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-35384238
Friday, 22 January 2016
Google pays Apple $1 billion
Incredible sum of money, but it just shows how important having Apple as a partner is to any technological firm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35380696
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Davos Update: Performance in Business and Sport
Some interesting if not new ideas about performance in business and sport:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35363109
World's Richest Football Clubs 2016
This year’s edition of Deloitte's Football Money League:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35359350
Davos Update
Finally revealed! The three best countries to work in for young graduates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35363111
Prelims
Good luck to all the pupils undertaking business prelims on Monday.
National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.
If you have studied well, and try your best then you will have no doubts after it. You always get out of it what you put in.
Thursday, 21 May 2015
McDonald's and employees clash
Employees of the world’s number one fast food restaurant aren’t happy with their ‘McJob’ in terms of pay:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32822464
Advanced Higher Business Management
Next session our school are hoping to offer AH Business Management for the first time in a while. Particularly interested in the Business Current Issues side of the Advanced Higher as at present there are many interesting stories relating to business which will capture student’s imagination. The most obvious ones are the rise of the BRIC countries, the continuing EU economic crisis as exemplified by Greece, and of course the whole ‘Brexit’ scenario, where the UK may or may not leave the EU. A referendum on the EU was in the Conservative manifesto, so it will be extremely likely this will take place either in 2016 or in 2017.
Other issues we will have to look at will also be the changes in technology and the impact new technologies could have on our everyday lives. Simple ideas like paying for goods and services by using your mobile will revolutionise how we shop. But as with anything, it will have an impact on people and jobs.
The living wage is another issue which has become important to many. And finally, it will be interesting to see how the Arctic Oil Drilling campaign will unfold, with consequences for our planet.
Looking forward to it as much as the pupils!
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Google HQ to be built by 'crabots'
Robots to build Google’s new HQ.
http://news.sky.com/story/1479509/robot-cranes-called-crabots-to-build-google-hq
Shell to drill in the Arctic
Expect the fallout from environmental protesters to continue for years as the US Government has given Shell the green light to drill for oil in the Arctic. What next?
http://news.sky.com/story/1482301/shell-given-go-ahead-for-arctic-oil-drilling
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Motivation
A follow up piece to the character assassination of former England manager Fabio Capello. In the comments section he receives a lot of support from England fans who lay the blame at the poor attitude and motivation of England’s senior players. How do you motivate a player who earns £300,000 a week?
The article by Rio Ferdinand slates Capello, yet as mentioned, the fans in the comments defend Capello’s stunning CV and criticise the International records of players like Rooney, Terry and Ferdinand himself.
What would motivational theories such as Taylor, Maslow, McGregor, Herzberg, or Mayo make of all this? How do you motivate such wealthy players who possibly do not want to risk injury which would affect their club careers? If you give in to all their demands you will be viewed as weak, yet if you are too strict and inflexible you may have a player mutiny on your hands, something the Netherlands have experienced in several International Championships.
Perhaps it is all in selection? Choose team players and not players who are in it for themselves?
Kraft and Heinz to Merge
A rumoured $40 billion merger brokered by Warren Buffet and an event which will create the World’s 3rd largest food and drink company… the breathtaking merger of Kraft and Heinz!
Kraft bought UK chocolate giant Cadbury and also own such brands as Kenco coffee. But to merge with a brand as famous as Heinz is really taking things to a whole new level:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32050266
Management Styles
Interesting football examples here: Capello (Autocratic) vs Hodgson (Laissez-Faire or Democratic)?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32056733
However, it can be said that both styles underachieved in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. Capello did emerge from his group before bowing out to Germany.
Football has thrown up some excellent examples of Autocratic managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson and the new Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat. Laissez-Faire approach seems to generate few successes in sports, perhaps down to the pressures and rigour of practice/training required.
I wonder what style Dave Brailsford (Team GB Cycling supreme) or Sir Clive Woodward (England’s Rugby World Cup winning boss) would be regarded as?
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