Don’t know if anyone recently read the article in Computer Weekly (11-17 November issue) which was based on the recent Gartner Symposium. But interesting feedback by Gartner for global CIOs on cutting…
Entrepreneurs for London
I visited a conference yesterday organised by Freshbusinessthinking.com for entrepreneurs. Lots of speakers provided by a number of interesting talks on how to grow a business and what the recession means to…
VW owned by Porsche :-(
Keeping with the car theme I did a post a few months back on VW. For those of you who aren’t aware the last week has seen it been taken into the…
Good job Hamiton!
I didn’t put a post up to congratulate Hamilton in his achievement of becoming F1 champion. Did an awesome job in my opinion and thoroughly deserved it over Massa. People forget so…
MPLS for SME’s
Little piece I wrote on MPLS technology and how it is poorly portrayed to SMEs. http://network.itproportal.com/articles/2008/11/04/converged-communication-networks-what-you-need-know/
High oil prices caused the recession
It is my belief that the real cause of the recession has been the huge oil prices the world has had to endure for the past 8-months. At the end of February…
BP’s Profits too much?
I am going to put my neck out here and say that actually I don’t have an issue with the profits BP are currently making. There has been quite a lot of…
Homework tonight?
I thought I would share with you one of the most shocking comments I have heard this year. A friend of mine was asked into the head teachers’ office at a local…
Telegraph
If anyone is interested I made it onto the Telegraph today. Had a good interview a few weeks back with Philip Smith who heads up the Telegraph Business Club with regards to…
Is a small company a bad thing?
In relation to my last post I just want to clarify that my position of what is a small business would probably fit 99% of all businesses in the UK economy. I…
Bullying small businesses
One thing that really annoys me is some larger enterprise customers’ perception of a smaller business and its ability to dictate the terms of business. I have talked previously that in this…
Company Benefits
I found in terms of attracting and retaining staff, extra benefits can help even a small business to flourish. For a while I thought it was only really a ‘big’ ie enterprise…
Speed limits
Driving back into London last night got me thinking of the Governments new speed penalties which will be coming into force very shortly. Basically anyone caught exceeding the speed limit by 15…
Autoglass – touch and go
Bit off topic but suffered from a large crack along my windscreen the other day. In a car that has only done 1,500 miles it is somewhat soul destroying to think the…
Cash flow management
In relation to running a business in the current economic climate one of the biggest issues I see is mismanagement of cash-flow. One thing I made absolutely sure with Fluidata right from…