In Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – June 2013
I Know Diddly Squat – It’s Time to Go By the time you’ll be reading this I’ll be gone – and (for once) I’m excited about what I’m leaving for. Not that my mantelpiece is bedecked with richly embossed...
View ArticleBusiness Finance Junction – July 2013
On July 1, former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England with a first Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on July 3 and 4. Mr Carney...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – July 2013
Think Like A Rat To Catch A Rat Us humans and Mr Ratty et al have a lot in common: both are partial to a swim and a bit of chocolate (rarely done at the same time ), both are deemed smart thinkers...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – August 2013
Searching for the Right Note Did you know school recorder lessons are solely responsible for some of the great drummers of the world? The skill sets of Buddy Rich, Ginger Baker and Keith Moon all began...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – September 2013
Business As Normal… Small firms are on the whole still feeling austerity chomping at their heels from which many are facing heavy additional burdens. Consequently, doing the bare minimum to get the job...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – October 2013
Should A Business Borrow Money Because It’s Cheap? There’s no straight answer….and depends fundamentally on how a business funds its current operations. Wanting to increase their reward is how the...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – November 2013
Mean Business Once-Upon-A-Time (in the real past) a Builder Developer was in the middle of developing an industrial estate when he came stuck (Historical note: *even in pre-recession days, High...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – December 2013
Businesses Break Up All The Time - Not Always for The Right Reasons There are some get-togethers of which I’m partial to. But, unless the invitation is from nearest and dearest, sometimes there can be...
View ArticleBusiness Finance Junction – January 2014
The month of predictions is here… so while we get down to business…. here’s a roundup of what’s being said… Disrupting Business – The Guardian Interest Rates - FT.com Manufacturing – BBC.co.uk...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – January 2014
Pollex’s Up! Time Thief Where is the human Pollex situated? First day away from the office and, blessed crackers, I was exposed as a lazy thinker… I’d have to Google that one… I had no idea Thinking...
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With inflation falling to the Bank of England’s 2% target for the first time in four years and numbers from Bank of England Credit Conditions Survey (2013 Q4) continuing an upward trend, the notion of...
View ArticleBeing Left Out In The Cold By A Debit Card
The Bank with a tagline: The Moments That Matter experienced a technology ‘glitch’ (a description adopted for anything that has a wire attached, but doesn’t work) when a part of Lloyds Banking Group’s...
View ArticleBusiness Finance Junction – February 2014
New Rules Home Mortgages April sees the MMR (Mortgage Market Review) come into force including waves of change around affordability rules. Those lenders who haven’t already implemented increased...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – February 2014
The Gatekeepers of Your Business (Part One) Any sized business can make a big promise happen by delivering the value proposition, specific to that business, when its committed to and supported by the...
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When things went wrong…. Coming about in relation to an outsourced service not meeting standards, the matter escalated when Customer Services proved ever more disjointed. I’d contemplated the situation...
View ArticleBusiness Finance Junction – March 2014
The banking industry has seen a rise in consumer confidence for two years in a row, according to a new survey of 32,000 banking customers in 43 countries. The study around the world showed confidence...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – March 2014
What’s Growth Got To Do With It? Fact: Businesses are the closest to consumers When there are concerns about consumers (pretty much a full time occupation for the business owner) those concerns...
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Step-Up Finance Slang: Short-Termist : Someone who chooses the path of least resistance instead of unscrambling the jigsaw for a clearer picture. The Long and Short of it. Shopping around IS time...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – April 2014
BOOM! The Only Acid Test “As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – Every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder” ~ John Glenn. There are some small numbers that...
View ArticleIn Business: Notes To Connect The Dots – May 2014
A Tale of Discrepancy and Discretionary Tarting ‘Ehghaahg uhmajeddth ohtkchgh mghigh emmmhgh’. Nope, I wouldn’t get that either! But my dentist’s brain seems to have adapted to most of his customers,...
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