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Author Archives: Michael Carr
Costa Concordia Disaster Recovery
You’re just finishing off your evening meal, swirling the remains of wine in your glass and reflecting on today. “It was a good meeting, we got a lot done; this will be a good year” and then the phone rings… … Continue reading
Posted in Organisation, Strategy, Systems
Tagged costa concordia, disaster plan, financial losses, focus diy, jaguar cars ltd, Micky Arison
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Pause For Thought
This Blog is written with a clear intent in mind. It is written to cajole, nudge, prompt and make you, the Director and Senior Manager, stop and think about what is happening within your organisation. If you survived last year … Continue reading
Wishing You A Prosperous & Happy 2012
“Once more onto the breach dear friends” Wishing you a peaceful, prosperous and happy new year. Mike
E-Mail Ban at Atos
In case you missed the item, last week, Thierry Breton, the CEO of ATOS, an international company of some 70,000 employees, announced that he was to ban e-mails throughout the organisation within the next eighteen months. Ignoring the speculative hype regarding … Continue reading
Autumn Statement 2011
George Osborne presented a not unsurprising statement given the debt laden economy, but within the statement there were some opportunities to be looked at and considered. The following key points are taken from business zone, posted by John Stokdyk. Kicking … Continue reading
Quantas Twitter Faux Pas
Poor Quantas, can’t do right from wrong it seems. My posting earlier this month was serious when I asked the question “what else could the Company be faced with”? – I didn’t expect it to be a self-inflicted PR gaff … Continue reading
Stop Budgeting Start Improving
An interesting article has appeared in the Harvard Business Review regarding budgeting. The tenet of the article is that you should abandon budgeting as a management process and instead focus upon driving inefficiency out of the cost drivers to the … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Organisation, Strategy
Tagged budget model, Budgeting, Corporate budgets, How to budget
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Quantas Airline and SWOT Analysis
I was reading this morning that a Quantas flight had an un-scheduled landing in Dubai due to an engine oil leak. The news in itself doesn’t warrant the headlines, as anyone in the transport business would testify, but it did … Continue reading
Responsibility for Accounts
One of my clients has had a particularly tough year and is only now being to see their way out of it. Thanks in no part to sheer hard work on behalf of all of the staff and our own … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Systems
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