Master the building blocks of strategy with McKinsey

This video is a short conversation with two Mckinsey consultants, in which they give an overview of a longer Mckinsey article — ‘The Building Blocks of Strategy’. Read more

Hints: getting the most out of Google search

Google is doing a brilliant job coming up with answers for our everyday life. In an professional context we might need to be a bit more demanding. There are several ways in which you can obtain more precise search results. Here are a few hints and tips that can help improve the amount of value you get from Google. Read more

Display figures at their best : numbers round-up

Rounding up numbers is generally advisable for a neat presentation of figures to your client or management. It’s much quicker to read and comprehend “15.3 million” than “15263014.254”. Read more

Useful Data Sources for Germany

Do you need German business data for your project or presentation? Here we outline three key sources which we believe may be a great starting place for you. Germany’s data is of real importance. It is as the world’s fourth largest economy and the biggest component of the world’s largest economic bloc, the European Union. We’ve chosen these three sources for their outstanding record of credibility. German government sources can be implicitly relied on. They also have a good range of topics from economic indicators to demographics.

De Statis is the primary source for German statistics. It is a neutral service provider for the Federal German Government. If you’re looking for financial statistics like Production figures or Health Spending then this is a great place to start. It also deals with political and transport data.

 Bund is a very useful portal for statistics websites about Germany with links to the official websites for trade and the economy, political administration and education.

 The Bundesbank’s statistics website is rich in economic and financial data.

 

This list is intended as a way of getting your feet wet, so to speak. If you have other data sources which you use and trust we’d love to continue the coversation through our comment section.