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Understanding Payment Trends
Understanding Payment Trends Aim of the Project In Barbados, consumers can pay for goods and services using cash, debit cards, credit cards, cheques, or direct …
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Interview with Simon Naitram, New President of the Barbados Economics Society
In this interview with Simon Naitram, the 2019 President of the Barbados Economic Society (BES) shares his perspective on the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) Plan, the restructuring of the Barbados economy and the role of the BES.
What We’ve Learned After Years of Customer Experience Research
We’ve been researching customer experience on our own and for clients for a number of years now. We’ve done customer satisfactions surveys, probing interviews with customers and prospects, intercept surveys with Joe Public and all types of focus groups. We’ve read dozens of articles, blog posts and research from other researchers. We’ve even conducted our own independent research on the topic. And we’ve noticed a pattern. There are four areas that companies need to pay attention to if they’re going to improve experiences along their customers’ journeys.
Antilles Economics: 2019
Permit me to steal some space in AE Quarterly to reintroduce you to Antilles Economics. At Antilles Economics we want to see the Caribbean reach its potential output. To achieve this we believe that the private sector must be equipped to lead, and they need insights to do so. For us at AE, we see information as an investment into insights, and insights are assets to an organisation that can be leveraged like any other. In 2019, for our clients in Barbados we are introducing a new service called AE Insider. AE Insider is an independent source of research, data and other insights developed specifically for decision-makers in the private sector.
Barbados Tourism: Changing Seasonal Patterns
In Barbados, the so-called ‘winter’ season that falls between December
and March is considered to be the peak time of the year for tourist
arrivals. Businesses and policymakers structure their policies and
operations to capitalise on the expected surge in arrivals during that
period. But what if the long-held views on Barbados’ tourists seasons
were wrong? What if seasonality trends had changed? Our research
suggests that seasonal trends in tourist arrivals have been evolving and these traditional notions of the tourist season in Barbados may need to be revised
Nowcasting with Google
Nowcasting has become widely popular in economics. In its most basic form, nowcasting can be summarised as ‘predicting the present and sometimes recent past’. Economists ‘nowcast’ because of the significant time lag in statistical releases. We often want to know what is going on in the economy in real time. So economists began looking for high frequency indicators which tend to be highly correlated with the ‘late release’ data. The problem is, even the leading indicators have a lag…until Google!
Barbados Tourism: Changing Seasonal Patterns
In Barbados, the so-called ‘winter’ season that falls between December
and March is considered to be the peak time of the year for tourist
arrivals. Businesses and policymakers structure their policies and
operations to capitalise on the expected surge in arrivals during that
period. But what if the long-held views on Barbados’ tourists seasons
were wrong? What if seasonality trends had changed? Our research
suggests that seasonal trends in tourist arrivals have been evolving and
these traditional notions of the tourist season in Barbados may need to
be revised.
Interview: Electric Car Rentals
In this article, we chat with Kieshelle Mcknight-Cummins from Electric Car Rentals, a new car rental company in Barbados with an ambitious mission: to be the regional leader in green transportation by providing 100% eco-friendly vehicles for rent to tourists and residents. The company only offers electric or hybrid vehicles with zero or ultra low carbon emissions. This is a game changing move in a region that is embracing the ideas of a green economy and sustainable tourism.
Interview with Jeremy Stephen, New President of the Barbados Economics Society
When Jeremy Stephen took over as President of the Barbados Economic Society (BES), he was arguably one of the youngest ever to hold that role. In this interview, we discuss his views on the Barbados economy and the role of the BES and the economics profession generally in Barbados.
Interview with the New President of the Barbados Economic Society – Shane Lowe
In this interview with the new president of the Barbados Economic Society, Mr. Shane Lowe, we discuss his thoughts on the current situation of the Barbados economy and his plans for the BES.
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We’re on the Do It Fuh Grantley Podcast!
Managing Director of Antilles Economics, Stacia Howard, was recently featured on the Do It Fuh Grantley podcast produced by Fortress Fund Managers. She shared her …
Managing the talent pool with the help of analytics
Mobilising people to achieve an organisation’s goals is not as straightforward as mobilising any of its other resources because, well, you’re dealing with people. People …
Release of the Executive Summary of the Employee View of the Employer Brand
Antilles Economics and Blueprint Creative Inc. recently completed a pilot study of more than 440 employees in Barbados to shed light on how employees’ views …
The fourth AE Quarterly newsletter for 2017 is now available
Do you already subscribe to our free newsletter AE Quarterly? If so, it should already be in your inbox, ready for you to delve into …
Using forecasts and scenarios in strategic planning
One of the biggest travesties to me in strategic planning – yes, I know I’m being dramatic – is that companies do not incorporate economic …
Introducing AE Quarterly
I’m pleased to introduce AE Quarterly, our email newsletter that will feature articles written by the AE team on business topics relevant to our Caribbean …
Our Work in Insurance
The Insurance Industry is indisputably one of the most important financial sectors in the Caribbean, managing US billions of dollars in assets. The fact that …
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AE Spotlights … Covid-19: Strategic Insights from the Caribbean C-Suite with Sagicor General
The COVID-19 pandemic has deconstructed the economic landscape as we know it. Despite this disruption, many positive stories have been told of organisations that have reimagined themselves and came out stronger on the other side.
We invite you to read the edited interview with the CEO & President of Sagicor General, Keston Howell, and the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, Paula Walcott. We look at the impact of the pandemic on their strategic plan and how they navigated its challenges by keeping people as a critical part of their strategy.
AE Spotlight Video: Sagicor General
The COVID-19 pandemic has deconstructed the economic landscape as we know it. Despite this disruption, many positive stories have been told of organisations that have reimagined themselves and came out stronger on the other side.
We invite you to read the edited interview with the CEO & President of Sagicor General, Keston Howell, and the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, Paula Walcott. We look at the impact of the pandemic on their strategic plan and how they navigated its challenges by keeping people as a critical part of their strategy.
Do you need a new strategy?
It is that time of year when we are all shifting our focus to the upcoming year and starting annual strategic planning. There are two questions when considering your next steps in executing your strategy.
1. Do you have a strategy at all?
2. Is it a good one?
Your answer to these questions will determine how you proceed. Read our latest blog post for some tips on how to answer them.
Covid-19: Strategic Insights from the Caribbean C-Suite
Strategy is often about identifying the patterns within the invisible and taking calculated risks to take advantage of potential opportunities. The Covid-19 pandemic has tested our resolve by disrupting our normal ways of doing business. In this article we introduce an upcoming set of interviews with senior leaders to discuss and garner inspiration from their strategic response to the global pandemic.
4 Reasons Why I Knew The Results of Your Engagement Survey Before You Even Started
With the needle appearing stuck on employee engagement, we discuss four key, but unspoken, reasons why organisations are struggling to get the most out of employee engagement surveys.
Did you ever think your love for Legos could make you a better post COVID CEO?
COVID has changed the world forever. We all know it. The skills needed to lead have changed as well, but don’t worry many of us already have a head start. We’ll provide some insight into what those essential leadership skills are in a post COVID world.
Why employee engagement surveys are not enough
Tell the truth. Most of your employees aren’t telling the truth on your annual employee engagement survey. You know it. They know it. And they …
Four Companies That Are Winning By Leveraging Invisible Talent Assets
In this third post in our Managing the Invisible series, we explore how four companies are using invisible assets like culture, recruitment practices and approaches to training to underpin their growth and success.
10 Features of Invisible Assets
Helping companies to manage the invisible underpins most of the work we do here at Antilles Economics. Invisible assets, though they cannot be seen or touched, are often the secret weapon in every successful company’s arsenal. In this second post in our Managing the Invisible series, we discuss why invisible assets require you to adopt a different approach to managing them than your traditional ‘visible’ assets.
