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Maintaining the flow: how to keep content coming for your blog
Producing content can become difficult over time. Maintaining a steady flow of new articles and thoughts that speaks to a target audience is time consuming and occasionally inspiration can fade. If you're looking for ways to ... read more
PPI: sins of the past still haunt UK Banks
In the past week two UK banks have announced losses that include set-asides for dealing with Payment Protection Insurance mis-selling claims. First RBS announced it was making provision for over 800 million pounds, then ... read more
New Report: Failures in Performance Management
At some point in their histories all organisations will experience underperformance. Individuals, teams and even entire business units will fail to deliver what is expected of them, often with damaging consequences for revenues, profits and confidence ... read more
How sponsors can impact the success of a turnaround project
Not every project goes according to plan. Costs can overrun, timescales can slip and what is delivered might not quite fit the bill. For the majority of the time these are annoyances that are dealt with ... read more
Gold plating FSA compliance could be costing you dearly
Over-engineering or "gold plating" operations to meet perceived regulatory requirements may provide a degree of comfort to management, but can add significantly to costs and reduce effectiveness. Incorporating addition information, checks or any other unnecessary activity ... read more
The Social Media ROI debate: settle it by measuring by your Return on Investment
In his blog post Aaron Biebert argues business leaders are still debating whether there is a return to be made on Social Media. He contends there are three reasons why this debate continues: poor education; wrong ... read more
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