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Welcome to Dragon Slaying

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:25:59 +0100

The Change and Continuity Conundrum

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

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

Value customers - Value customer service

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100

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

Corporate Manslaughter Conviction

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The first conviction under corporate manslaughter legislation intr

Hack Attack

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The recent Sony hack attack has shown how vulnerable our increasing love affair with the online world had made us.

Corporate Social Responsibility

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The new ISO 26000 standard, Guidance on Social Responsibility, was published late last year and gives guidanc

Environmental targets achievable

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:43:27 +0000

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

ISO 9001: One Million

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Across the World, over one million ISO 9001 certificates have now been awarded according to the late

PQQ efficiency drive

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:10:59 +0000

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

We need a change in management thinking

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:45:44 +0000

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

A virtuous health and safety circle?

admin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:26:19 +0000

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

Corporate social responsibility

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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

Business continuity

admin — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:38:23 +0100

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

Association of Interior Specialists Integrated Management Standard (AIMS)

admin — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:47:13 +0100

The Association of Interior Specialists has recently launched a very impressive document detailing an integrated management standard for the secto

Environmental seminars

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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 joins the BSIA

admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Statius has, for some time, been in discussions with the BSIA (British Security Industry Association). Indeed, in the summer, Statius was invited to presen

Ian Harnett departs

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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 GO FOR THE TRIPLE

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:38:00 +0100

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

GOOD GOVERNANCE - AUDITORS, YOUR (UNLIKELY) PARTNERS IN PROGRESS

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:18:24 +0100

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

KEEPING IT SAFE

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:50:00 +0100

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.