The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) recently surveyed over 650 organisations worldwide and found that, whilst 75% had implemented major strategic change programmes, 84% of these projects had be
The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has undertaken its first comprehensive research exercise examining the return on investment from customer service. When asked which activities were mos
The UK can meet its environmental target to cut greenhouse emissions by 60% over the next 20 years, the Committee on Climate Change reports. However, this will mean completely overhauling the
Suppliers and sub contractors throughout the construction supply chain have, for a long time, had to complete a vast number of different PQQ forms from an ever increasing number of different bodies
One of our Associates, Stuart Swalwell, recently spent some time in Los Angeles with Bill Bellows, Associate Fellow at Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne and Leader of Enterprise Thinking, and is now dra
We all want our staff and workforce to go home safety to their loved ones at night and it does appear there is evidence that we are getting better at it. In a recent article for Safety Manage
ISO 26000, the guidance standard for corporate social responsibility, has now been approved. The standard includes various definitions useful to CSR, and the issues that need to be addressed
In view of the success of the business continuity standard BS 25999, the BSi is currently expanding the guidance documentation relating to the key subject areas in the standard. The new docum
Business Focus at Bromley College has won a number of contracts to build capacity within the south London region. As part of these contracts, there is a requirement to improve the way in whic
Statius has, for some time, been in discussions with the BSIA (British Security Industry Association). Indeed, in the summer, Statius was invited to presen
As of 20 October, Ian Harnett will be leaving the company. Of his leaving, Mark Woods, MD of Statius, said that Ian had made an extremely valuable contribution to the Company over the duratio
Longcross is a young, thrusting and innovative construction group working predominantly with large retailers like Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. The Group is made up of three s
If you can cast your mind back far enough, the list is as long as it is depressing - the list, that is, of organisations that have failed despite their efforts to maintain vigilance against the ris
Information security has rocketed up the management agenda and a number of private and public sector contracts have been withheld where companies cannot demonstrate information integrity.
The new ISO 26000 standard, Guidance on Social Responsibility, was published late last year and gives guidanc
Across the World, over one million ISO 9001 certificates have now been awarded according to the late
