The cost of operating a fleet of vehicles is steadily rising. This article describes how to get a grip on the costs, drive them down and increase safety at the same time.
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The cost of operating a fleet of vehicles is steadily rising. This article describes how to get a grip on the costs, drive them down and increase safety at the same time.
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THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM: A LEADERSHIP FABLE
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
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Tests to ensure that the public can receive alerts to their mobile phone in the event of an emergency are being launched in Yorkshire, Suffolk and Glasgow.
The government and three mobile phone companies O2, Vodafone and EE, will conduct separate tests later this year to look at a how different technologies work and how the public react when they receive an emergency alert to their phone.
Managing diverse leisure facilities across a range of sites presents a substantial challenge. This article describes how technical support was provided to enhance customer service and provide the information necessary to drive efficiency.
Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) runs a diverse portfolio of leisure attractions. With approaching five million annual leisure visits, and several coveted new legacy sites which were used as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the authority introduced Omnico technology to help it deliver world-class services.
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G. Shawn Hunter explains how leaders can transform their organisation and move from being a part of the old “Information Age” to becoming a game-changer in the new “Creative Age”.
The author explains how organisations need to build new capabilities, new risk thresholds, and social ecosystems that foster emerging behaviors.
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Increasing pressures are resulting in NHS Trusts facing the choice of maintaining a focus on performance or prioritising the quality of patient care.
A survey of finance leads from clinical commissioning groups and trust finance directors by the King’s Fund’s reveals the financial pressures that trusts are facing. The NHS will struggle to meet its target of delivering £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015. Only 10 per cent of NHS finance directors surveyed rated the chances of meeting the target as better than 50/50. The majority, 56 per cent, identified a high or very high risk that the target will not be met, while a third, 34 per cent, rated the likelihood of success as 50/50.
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Recently the media has been swamped with the news that “more than 300,000 attempts” were made to access pornographic sites from the Houses of Parliament. Bill Walker explains that this really is not news at all. The key word here is “attempts”, suggesting that web filters had prevented anyone from actually accessing these sites. So, the main story here is not that are MPs being, ahem, distracted from their parliamentary duties.
The real story lies in the month-by-month breakdown of the figures provided by the Houses of Parliament. They vary wildly between 15 attempts in February to 114,844 attempts in November, which would indicate some very strange behaviour. But, it starts to make sense when you consider that in November, there was intense media and political investigation into various sexual offences. Some of our MPs may simply have been victims of an over-zealous web filter, as they were conducting research into the news, hardly the stuff of a saucy news article.
As six UK colleges pilot Capita’s new mobile services for the further education (FE) sector, product manager Rob Elliott explains the critical role mobile technologies are set to play in improving students’ grades.
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With teacher unions planning strikes about pay and pensions, a public sector wide survey has shown that financial worries top the list of those approaching retirement.
The research by Teachers Assurance and carried out by research specialist Opinion Matters found that 24 per cent were worried about the financial aspects relating to retirement, while 26 per cent felt they wouldn’t have enough money when they retire.
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