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4-CONSULTING E-ZINE
A recent survey from the Chartered Management Institute
looked at how organisations approach Business Continuity
Management. We comment on some worrying findings.
The credit crunch continues to put pressure on
organisations to reduce costs, increase revenues and improve
profit margins. Many organisations are looking to slim
down their workforces in a bid to improve efficiency while
maintaining service levels and quality. Other
organisations are restructuring their business organisation
and process models. For many workers, these changes
can be highly stressful and we look at some of the issues
for businesses in helping their staff members to cope with
stress.
Our consultancy team have lots of experience in these and
other interesting areas and we're keen to share our
knowledge with our readers. We hope you’ll find the
articles of interest and, if there is a topic you would like
us to cover in a future issue, please let us know.
Please feel free to forward this e-zine to a
colleague.
In this issue
Business Continuity Management Survey
In a new survey of managers looking at the extent and effectiveness of Business Continuity
Management Survey in UK public and private sector
organisations, the Chartered Management Institute
found that over the past seven years, less than half of the surveyed organisations had any form of
business continuity plans and that the trend had fallen slightly in the last three years.
The voluntary and not-for-profit sector was the worst area
which increases the risk for public bodies that rely on
these organisations for delivering key services.
Surprisingly, the survey showed that organisations reported
mismatches between their expectation of disruptive events
and their preparedness.
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article
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Fit for Purpose Third Sector
Public bodies are increasingly turning to the Third
Sector to delivery services to members of the public.
However, not enough attention is paid to how suited Third
Sector organisations might be fulfil the challenges.
Ralph Leishman considers some issues.
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article
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Making the Most of Word and Excel
Our regular "tricks and tips" features offers practical
advice on using Word more efficiently to create great
documents and creating, formatting and navigating Excel
spreadsheet workbooks.
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article
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Recent Successes
Since our last e-zine, we completed the development and
publication of the ICT Strategic Plan for the
University of St Andrews, we've been
commissioned to carry out an evaluation
of the Edinburgh Criminal Justice Project, and we've
carried out an IT Risk Audit for Marathon Oil
(Europe) Ltd.
What's New?
New service -
We are delighted that a long-established public
sector recruitment consultant, Peter Siviter, has joined us
as an Associate. This enables us to extend our range of
services to encompass recruitment to senior public sector
roles. This fits well with our other offerings to public
sector clients, which include strategic review and planning,
change management and organisational development.
If you would like more information about our capability,
please contact
SALES@4-consulting.com.
New Associates - Over the past
six months, we have added three new Associates to our
network of specialist consultants. Our new colleagues
strengthen our skills, knowledge and experience in the
fields of IT, management development and information
engineering.
New Tools - Over the years, we've developed a
number of Access database applications for our clients and
we're delighted to open them up to our reader. We
created our
Impact Matrix™
to enable organisations prioritise their project portfolios
focusing on strategic alignment, realisable benefits and
achieving long-term objectives.
Most recently, we launched
the Risk
Register database designed to help
organisations to comply with their legal, governance and
funding obligations. The Register can configured to
address all types of risks including Strategic, Operational,
IT, Health & Safety. We've created a demonstration
version specifically for charities and other versions will
come on stream in the next month or so. If you would
like to try out our demonstrations of either Tool, please
contact
Sandy.Pratt@4-consulting.com or visit our
download page on our
web site.
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Tell us your view
In our last e-Zine, we asked if you thought an ailing
bank should be propped up by central government. Your
responses flew in and 85% of your
replies said "No".
We hope that you will take a moment to answer the
following question:
Do you think the UK economy will
have improved by this time next year?
Answer our question and let us know – all responses are
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