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While the cat’s away…
Now that the main holiday season is upon us, we are all likely to encounter the usual issues of staff being unavailable or covering for others. Apart from the usual issues around delegation, covering...
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Measure Twice Cut Once! – Gathering Data through Asset Surveys
All too often there is requirement to physically verify assets in situ, in other words to do a survey. The scope and nature of information to be gathered can vary significantly dependent on the...
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Take COINS data analysis with a pinch of salt?
Recently the UK government published extracts from the COINS database. COINS stands for the Combined On-line Information System and the extract contains details of all expenditure by UK Government...
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Reinventing the wheel
I’ve come across a few examples recently where people either have, or have nearly, re-invented something that already existed in an organisation. This can be termed “re-inventing the wheel”. Clearly,...
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Are you playing on the pitch?
There have been pages of newspaper coverage and hours of debate devoted recently to England’s poor performance at the World Cup in South Africa. This has prompted a timely post from guest blogger Rhys...
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Secrets of a good presentation (Part 1 of 3)
I’ve just spent a few days away at a conference where there was a huge variety of presentation styles and effectiveness of presentations, some good and some much less so. This has prompted me to write...
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Secrets of a good presentation (Part 2 of 3)
This is the second part of a three part blog post providing guidance on how to deliver a good presentation. Part 1 explained how to develop your content. This part focuses on the actual delivery of...
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Secrets of a good presentation (Part 3 of 3)
This is the third and final part of a three part blog post providing guidance on how to create and deliver an effective presentation. Part 1 provided guidance on how to develop your content. Part 2...
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But we’re different….
Many times throughout my career, when investigating a particular problem, people have made comments along the lines of: “But we’re the [Insert any industry name here] industry, our problems are unique,...
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The same data… but different answer
When discussing data quality issues, we frequently address issues where inconsistent data can lead to analysis problems. The 2012 Olympics present an interesting variant where the input data is the...
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