I think most people would agree that a level of rigour is a necessary evil in many areas across most businesses. I have yet to meet anyone who intentionally endangers their employees so rigour is important when deploying health and safety policy.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1211/appropriate-rigour
I ran another meeting for freelancers last Tuesday and the subject for this was ‘Best Practice LinkedIn’ delivered excellently by Richard Kotulecki, one of the group members. So what did I pick up?… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1184/more-linkedin-tips
With thanks to John Niland, VCO Global (http://www.vco-global.com/)
It used to be sufficient to understand requirements. And perhaps write them down, so that when the Boss or the Client changed their minds, you could at least remind them.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1144/the-courage-to-re-frame-requirements
I wrote about Project Initiation in the article here. This approach is typically seen as being the exclusive preserve of the Project Manager. However, I find the approach useful in many other scenarios when working with customers.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1121/project-principles-applied-to-other-parts-of-the-business
I firmly believe that it is very important for people who live and work in the freelance world to ensure that they have assessed the risks associated with this way of working and have protection in place.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1098/the-maths-of-freelancing
In previous issues, Della Payne, Managing Director of Business Intelligence consultancy, change++, has described how different tools, including dashboards and scorecards, can be used to manage performance in organisations. In this issue, Payne outlines the benefits of automating the delivery of regular reports on any aspect of business performance, whether a Profit and Loss report or the number of units sold in an outlet at a particular time of day.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1051/how-standard-reports-eliminate-the-problems-of-re-keyed-data-from-multiple-sources
BUSINESS is being urged to have its say on the future provision of broadband in Milton Keynes. The city is set to be among the first areas to receive the next-generation roll-out of superfast broadband.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1059/have-your-say-on-future-broadband-provision
Technology changes too fast for most of us to keep up and the pace is constantly accelerating!
If it is not the actual scientific principles that are new, then it is the capabilities or costs that are constantly improving.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1072/making-the-most-of-technology