Learning from failure

Friday, 15th February 2008 by Alistair Blair

Lessons in business from the founder of one of the biggest corporate failures in the UK.

Nigel Playford founded Ionica to be a rival to BT. The scale of his ambition was huge. And he almost made it. Almost. Here he recounts how it went wrong and the business education lessons he learned from the failure. Click here to read a classic article and brilliant insight into how business really works.