Most businesses are created, at least in part, to make money, and financial achievement is an important way to measure the success of a business. An important part of the process is constantly re-evaluating and redefining your financial goals – and it’s not as simple as just trying to make more money. Defining what you want to achieve and how to do it can be difficult. Here are four considerations you should take into account when defining your business’ financial goals for 2012.

Design plays a vital role in education. From the type of furniture used to the way learning materials are laid out, design impacts how students learn, how they feel in their environment and whether the lessons are retained and effective. Here are just some of the ways in which design influences education.

In an era of political correctness and sophisticated communication, it would be unusual to find any corporation today that would openly support the views expressed by Milton Friedman.

The recent release of Interbrand’s 2011 Best Global Brands report revealed that 50% of the world’s top brands are produced in the United States. No brands produced in African countries featured in the report - indicating enormous opportunity for brand development in these emerging markets to build existing products into globally recognisable brands.

Critiquing famous restaurants, going on culinary travel adventures, uncovering new trends and going behind the scenes in the food industry sounds like a lot of fun and if you have aspirations of becoming a food and wine feature writer, follow this advice to get the process started.