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Posted by David Tebbutt on 19th November 2007.
In another life, I spend a lot of time looking at IT issues in large enterprises. This is a world of multi-million pound IT budgets and horrendous electricity bills. Some companies genuinely fear electricity shortages in the coming years, the consequences of which would be horrendous for companies large and small.
Imagine if you had no [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th September 2007.
Last week saw the second Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. One of the panellists, Toby Moores, is a visiting professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort university in Leicester. He runs a company called Sleepy Dog which is (currently) best known for creating Sony’s Buzz quiz games. He describes his company [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 2nd May 2007.
Now that was interesting. I’ve just got back from giving a talk at London’s Dorchester Hotel on ‘the project-based economy’ to a group of accountants. The idea was that a lot of well-connected and senior people from banks and elsewhere shared their thoughts on the way the economy was evolving and I put something in [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 28th March 2007.
The problem with any small business - and I speak as one myself - is that it’s so difficult to keep on top of everything you need to. Paperwork is a nightmare and let’s not even talk about accounts.
This is why it’s important to note information like the release that’s hit my desk from Microsoft’s [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 15th March 2007.
A great mini-rant and great quote from Anna Farmery today. Definitely one I’m going to use, attributed to Phillip Green:
“Successful companies have parties. Unsuccessful ones have meetings.”
Some sections of the large corporations I worked for in a previous life were run almost entirely on meetings. It always struck me as hugely inefficient, and yet these were [...]
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