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Businessbites are the thoughtful ramblings of Rob Grealis, Managing Director of AOD Consultants. Click on "read more"to read the article.

BREXIT - Danger and Opportunity

The Chinese word for crisis when written is made up of two characters, one meaning danger and the other opportunity. True or not, the real entrepreneur will always see opportunity in a crisis and Brexit is an imminent crisis potentially on so many different levels, if we only knew what they were. READ MORE

Engineering a Quality Future - Ireland's competitive advantage

It is generally accepted that an enterprise-wide commitment to quality can generate a sustainable competitive advantage. Management invest considerable time and resources monitoring and measuring financial performance, market conditions and competitor analysis and rightly so, but poor quality can ruin a company  READ MORE 

Top 20 reasons Startups fail

The Top 5 on the list are not surprising and highlights again the importance of knowing Your market, planning your finances, getting the right people, at the right time, knowing your competitors & your USP and getting your market position right first time  READ MORE