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posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 Comments Off

Large organisations are notoriously risk adverse yet they need to grow. Also, people do not change unless there is a very good (usually economic) argument for them to do so that has ‘urgency’ writ large right through it.

In a …

posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 Comments Off

Large organisations live with risk and manage it. Small companies tend to be less formal with the risk management process but big companies do it to death. It’s high on every manager’ list of things to be aware of as Risk …

posted on Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 Comments Off

Who or what is your customer?!It’s a great idea to categorise your clients in your own mind with easy to recall names so that when you trip over someone at a networking event or get an approach for information, you can …

posted on Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 Comments Off

It’s doom and gloom everywhere – no need to say more. But is there a silver lining for some IPAs, I wonder?

We’re used to seeing assembly jobs relentlessly moving to the latest and cheapest labour entrant to the EU. Once the years of euphoria that take farmers out of the …

posted on Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 Comments Off

It’s doom and gloom everywhere – no need to say more. But is there a silver lining for some IPAs, I wonder?

We’re used to seeing assembly jobs relentlessly moving to the latest and cheapest labour entrant to the EU. Once the years of euphoria that take farmers out of the …