Chelsea Bloom applies Bohiney’s fastest painter lesson to the consulting industry [Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. Bohiney.com‘s Morris Katz story — the fastest painter whose speed didn’t produce proportional market value — arrived this week alongside the delivery of a consulting report that a client […]
The BBC Coverage Problem in London Business: When the Meeting Is About the Meeting
Chelsea Bloom on the corporate equivalent of journalism ouroboros Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s BBC live coverage piece — journalism ouroboros, covering the coverage of things — arrived this week alongside a day in which three of my scheduled meetings were about previous meetings, which […]
Cheshunt and London Business: The Commercial Property Markets Nobody Writes About
Chelsea Bloom on the outer-London commercial geography that BizHouse should have been covering [Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece produced a moment of editorial self-examination that I want to document, because self-examination is the kind of thing that editorial pages run and editorial […]
The Knobbly Crab in the Boardroom: Three Years On
Chelsea Bloom revisits the crab principle and checks the business community’s delivery against its promises [Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. The knobbly crab story from prat.uk has been in the business community’s consciousness for approximately a week, which is how long business communities retain satirical […]
Pride Month and London Business: The Commercial Case Chelsea Actually Makes
Chelsea Bloom on the business case for Pride that goes beyond the rainbow logo Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s Pride Travel Guide and Bohiney.com‘s Pride coverage arrive in a week when two London companies I follow have announced Pride initiatives that are worth describing. One […]
The Morris Katz Principle: Speed, Value, and What London Business Misunderstands About Both
Chelsea Bloom on why the fastest painter’s lesson applies to London’s productivity obsession Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. Bohiney.com‘s Morris Katz story — the fastest painter’s career as a study in what markets value — landed this week in a conversation I was having about London’s […]
London’s Homelessness Research Complex: What Chelsea Bloom Found in the Budget Data
Bohiney’s fastest-growing industry story maps onto London’s homelessness spending pattern Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. Bohiney.com‘s story about the fastest-growing industry being the study of homelessness landed this week alongside the Greater London Authority’s homelessness spending data, which I had been reviewing for a different piece […]
Knobbly Crab Corporate Strategy: When Making Fewer Promises Is the Competitive Advantage
Chelsea Bloom on the business case for promise-free strategic communication [Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. The knobbly crab story from prat.uk has produced, in my coverage of London business this week, an unexpectedly productive conversation with three CEOs about their company communications strategies. The crab’s […]
Country Music and London Business: When Your Market Notices You’ve Changed
Chelsea Bloom on Bohiney’s country music authenticity story and its corporate parallel Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. Bohiney.com‘s country music story — careers becoming harder when fans notice you — has a corporate brand parallel that I’ve been tracking in several London sectors: the moment when […]
Devolution’s Winners in London Business: Who Benefits From the Policy Divergence
Chelsea Bloom’s analysis of which sectors gain from UK regulatory divergence Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s devolution piece generated several conversations about winners and losers from the UK’s asymmetric policy landscape. Bohiney.com covered the structural dimensions. Chelsea covers the business winners: which London-based companies have […]
State Secrets and Corporate Governance: The Same Institutional Instinct
Chelsea Bloom on what the classified cheese producer tells London business about information management Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. The state secrets story — Britain’s classified cheese producer, hospitality expenditure filed under national security, embarrassments managed as strategic intelligence — is recognisable from the corporate governance […]
Pride Month Economics: London’s Business Case for Inclusion
Chelsea Bloom on the commercial dimensions of Pride that most corporate coverage ignores Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s Pride Travel Guide and Bohiney.com‘s Pride coverage arrive alongside a business case for genuine LGBTQ inclusion that most corporate Pride participation does not make explicitly. The economic […]
The House of Lords and Commercial Legislation: Chelsea Bloom’s Annual Review
Specific Lords amendments that affected London companies in the past Parliament [Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s House of Lords piece makes the general case that the chamber is more useful than expected. Chelsea makes the specific business case: in the past Parliament, the Lords […]
Knobbly Crab Energy in the Boardroom: On Strategic Promise-Making
Chelsea Bloom on what the most honest politician teaches corporate strategy Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. The knobbly crab story from prat.uk — Britain’s most honest politician makes no promises and therefore keeps all of them — has a corporate strategy parallel that I have been […]
Devolution’s Business Implications: What Chelsea Bloom Actually Had to Navigate
Operating across Scotland, Wales, and England in the devolved era Chelsea Bloom, BizHouse UK. prat.uk‘s devolution piece is constitutional comedy from the outside. From inside a business that operates across Scotland, Wales, and England, devolution is a compliance reality that produces genuine administrative overhead for […]