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  1. How to Make Outsourcing Work -- Date Posted: 24th December 2009 19:03

    Moving non-core activities performed in-house to specialists outside the company helping the* business to focus on core competencies and improve performance standards is the main premis of outsourcing. The growth and rewards of this practice can be quite high but the downsides are daunting.

    So what are the pros and cons of outsourcing?

    The potential from outsourcing and BPO related activities:
    • Savings in terms of cost from labour arbitrage
    • Productivity
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  2. Planning a Green Christmas?

    Planning a Green Christmas

    The song tells of a white Christmas, but that refers to the weather and the Christmasy atmosphere that snow can bring. Planning for a green Christmas is all about being environmentally active and aware while saving money as well. In times of economic uncertainty that must surely be a good thing. And of course, if the weather brings a little bit of white covering too, then that makes a green Christmas perfect!

    Exchanging gifts is a common practice ...
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  3. Computer Diagnostics - simple yet effective tools

    Computer Diagnostics

    The diagnostics that are associated with computers can help to identify any problem or failure that computers show when they are having problems. Diagnostics are used to test out the computer system, which includes both the BIOS and memory, software, and even the hardware that is attached to the computer.

    The most common types of problems will occur when your computer is down to very low resources, which can either be a low amount of RAM, or a ...
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  4. The Welsh Gods

    Hi BizFacers

    Most people will of course be aware about the great Welsh Panthenon of Gods - who lived on the windy slopes of Snowdon where year in an out aided by the great God of rain Dwnpwr mingled and delved into the matters of men and women. Interfering and generally making whoopee until fed up with the rain and the god awful food in Wales (especially the leeks and warm beer) they disappeared back to their mountain top retreat.

    Anyhoo -- The Gods of Wales
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    Updated 5th November 2009 at 18:46 by Royston

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  5. Doing a Feasibility Study

    Feasibility Study Project Management Template


    Feasibility Study Project Management Template

    Is your project feasible?
    The best way to find out whether your project is feasible is to complete a Feasibility Study. This process helps you gain confidence that the solution you need to build can be implemented on time and under budget. So here’s how to do it in 5 simple steps...
    Completing a Feasibility Study
    A Feasibility Study ...
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  6. A day in the life of a stressed out House-Person

    A day in the life of a stressed out House-Person

    I was there doing the washing up - yes I know this is unheard off - when that black and white idiot of a dog of ours starts the hound of the Baskervilles impression and begins to bark the bloody place down. I don't know what it is with Border Collies but they spend most of their day looking at the entrance to the drive waiting for someone to turn up then proceed to bark their flipping heads off - she's turned postie into a nervous wreak ...
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  7. The Buriden's Ass ‘method’ of decision making

    The Buriden's Ass ‘method’ of decision making is used when two or more equally attractive alternatives exist and it is difficult to make a choice. It is of course based on the old fable of Buriden's Ass, who starved to death because he was tethered halfway between two equally large and succulent piles of hay - he couldn’t make up his mind which one to walk over to and eat. The approach is really simple; if the outcome of a choice between two options in terms of benefit is equally attractive focus ...

    Updated 3rd September 2009 at 12:26 by Royston

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  8. Get service management organised in an Outsource for success

    Pay Attention to governance structures and manage Outsourcing for success

    In the Service Level Agreement the governance structure must receive special attention with all the relevant review and management processes, including escalation procedures should things go wrong. Furthermore, built-in mechanisms for changeover time must be included to account for continuous improvement. Obviously, targeted reduction in price is to be expected from normal improvements in technology or process, ...
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  9. Do not get ripped off in an outsource agreement

    Do not get ripped off in an outsource agreement the staff notice it first

    The success of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) is also observed closely by your staff. We have seen in our outsource work that staff notice only too well whether their original employer is getting value or just being ‘ripped off’ and often have great fun when it does go wrong. This keen appraisal of how it works in practice impacts upon their own motivation and their relationships with both you and the outsource ...
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  10. How many bacteria in a doner kebab - University Student finds out the hard way

    How many bacteria in a doner kebab - Bristol University Student finds out the hard way

    I was talking to her indoors about her sisters son who's at Bristol University who just had a nasty run in with Gastroenteritis following a 'delicious' late night snack of a donar kebab (despite repeated warnings from his mum) after consuming a quick ten pints at the student union bar. This nasty ailment is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract involving both the stomach and the small intestine ...
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  11. Stiff competition in the p*n*s enlargement industry

    Stiff competition in the penis enlargement industry

    After a period of relative quiet and normality I have noticed my inbox is becoming inundated with spam posts again. As normal I still get the occasional post about the little pink or blue tablets some of them almost looking as if they were sent via legit sites but of late it is the stiffening competition in the penis enlargement industry which is giving me gip. Apparently you can gain inches to your anatomy (in minutes) by wearing ...
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  12. The Prince William Cup - another obsequious gesture by WRU

    The Prince William Cup - another obsequious gesture by the WRU

    A new rugby trophy was apparently chosen by Prince William first son of Prince Charles the Halfwit from three different designs presented by specialist jewelers in Wales; Mari Thomas, from Llanelli and Nicola Palterman from Neath won the commission to create the cup. The creation is 55*cm high, 1.5*mm gauge trophy as their biggest and most their most elaborate job to date - see pic below for the monstrosity. The blurb ...

    Updated 23rd February 2009 at 11:16 by Royston

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  13. Bees Decision Making Style - shows us how to avoid getting stung in the stock market

    I read with interest an article in the Sunday paper this week on the assertion that Bees 'Decision Making Strategy' (sic) could help the business world to come to more informed decisions.

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    Apparently swarms send out 'scouts' to assess the quality of a potential site for a hive. The insects then report back to the old hive and do a 'dance' to describe the benefits of the site. The study concluded that the swarm then comes to a group decision on the best ...

    Updated 19th February 2009 at 20:40 by roymoggadmin

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  14. The Bardsey Crown to Return to the land of Merlin

    The Bardsey Crown to Return to the land of Merlin

    No doubt everyone is watching with great interest the attempts by the Bardsey inhabitants (all ten of them) to have the Bardsey island Crown returned to its rightful place in Wales.
    The Island is a god forsaken lump of rock off the Llyn Penninsula in the North of Wales once inhabited by Monks in a colony established there in the 6th Century by one Saint Cadfan. - and as an interesting side note is the imputed last resting place ...

    Updated 8th February 2009 at 14:44 by roymoggadmin

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  15. Grumpy Christmas - from Royston

    Christmas 2008

    It's that time of year again when itinerant panhandlers (carol singers) make their annual pilgrimage to my front door appear on my door-step attempting to sing a few strangled verses of some long forgotten carol before being sent away with a flea in their ear and a recommendation for a few singing lessons by yours truly.

    The year before last as I reported in my last Christmas message some group of lads came around and made a vague attempt at Silent Night. ...
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  16. World Toilet Day Celebrations in Chipping Norton

    World Toilet Day Celebrations in Chipping Norton

    As we all know last week (the 19th November) saw the celebration of world toilet day - I know 'what another crap day' - well yes actually. As we know a visit to the bathroom is a regular ritual for all of us and a person will go to the toilet about 6 to 7 times a day and with all that flushing that takes place will use around 30% of the 60 gallons of water used by an average person in the UK daily. It is something we all take for granted ...

    Updated 1st February 2009 at 18:15 by roymoggadmin

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  17. Banking Crisis - Lloyds was a safe bank in 1825

    The recent banking crisis and the failure of the Scottish attempts to take over the banking world in the UK has set me thinking about the earlier attempts at setting up regional banks and in particular the setting up of the first real retail type banks in the UK. Many years ago numerous county banks were created in different parts of Britain, including Gods Country Wales. There were a number of so called drovers' banks set up in mid-Wales at that time. Drovers as in 'rawhide', the famous cowboy ...
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  18. Recent Archaeological research shows football invented in Wales

    Recent Archaeological research shows football invented in Wales

    The first reference to football being played in this country was actually in Wales over a thousand years ago. The beautiful game was watched and played by hooligans as it is nowadays was probably introduced to Great Britain by the Romans in Wales and was played in the great Amphitheatre in Silurum Venta (aka Caerleon) by soldiers of the Second Augustan Legion during breaks from sacking, pillaging and general mayhem. Watched ...
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  19. The Railway Chronicles - starlet's bags under eyes forces new photo shoot

    The Railway Chronicles - starlet's bags under eyes forces new photo shoot

    I was on the way up to see one of our northern NHS clients this time on what is now the national express line (what happened to the GNER?) - this was to be a difficult discussion about why they could not have a piece of software which is valued at well over a hundred grand installed for four pence halfpenny - but that’s not the subject for today as I must protect our beloved clients. I was reading through some ...

    Updated 28th September 2008 at 17:18 by roymoggadmin

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  20. Brown relaunch at labour conference fails

    Brown solves world hunger and financial markets in a day.

    I am becoming used to seeing Gordon Brown in his many guises or relaunches (currently around number seven) giving out the impression that he is more or less single handedly running every ministry in this country. From facilitating mergers between banks, solving Clostridium difficile in hospitals, greeting our hero Para Olympians back home to lagging. It is the latter theme I would like to dwell on as I was astonished to see ...
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  21. Car Parking Charges Abolished in Welsh Hospitals - Chaos Ensues

    Car park Charges abolished and then chaos ensues

    At the beginning of the financial year in gods country (Wales) the first minister announced that car parking fees, the subject of much controversy in the principality and elsewhere, were to be abolished. This 'lead' was not followed by the Department of Health in the UK at large who said England would not be following the Welsh example -"We have no plans of forcing hospitals in England to subsidise their car parks with resources that ...
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  22. Kevin Keegan pushes World War from top news slot

    Kevin Keegan pushes World War from top news slot

    I could hardly believe what I was seeing and hearing the other day when the nice BBC man opened the news with the statement ' today's top story Kevin Keegans future with Newcastle in Doubt'. Not Hurricane Gustav, Russia about to move on Poland, Brother Browns give aways to his pals up north or Alistair Darlings torpedoing the UK economy. No - a story about a second rate football manager in a northern team in some god forsaken place ...
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  23. Prince Philip Famous Gaffes - the roll of honour

    Hi BizFace,

    Some more wonderful Prince Philip Gaffe posts:


    My Top 5

    1.0 "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
    (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

    2.0 "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
    (in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's ...

    Updated 29th August 2008 at 18:07 by Royston

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  24. The Deathly GM Crops and The Half-Wit Prince (Book 8)

    The Deathly GM Crops and The Half-Wit Prince (Book 8)

    Most of the time I regard Prince Charles as an amiable affable buffoon who talks a peculiar brand of new age sentiment and claptrap and dresses in a quaint Scottish (kilt commando style) way so beloved by our American friends across the water or who swans down the racecourse in top hat waving to the assembled masses on the rails. This erstwhile Edwardian who I think at heart harks back to those times when obedient yokels tilled ...
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  25. The Class Structure is Perpetuated by Having Royals

    Most people who have little time for a monarchy or are of a republican orientation focus too much on the minutiae of the royals as they currently are. Worrying about a Prince Philip's faux Pas - which actually livens things up a bit except for his rather implicit racism - the minor civil list cost in the scheme of things and on the small issues. Whether they pay tax or make a contribution to our balance of payments or can possibly break a deadlock in the house of commons are not significant problems. ...
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