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Process centre of excellence
There are six key aspects to creating a centre of excellence according to Paul Barrett from Nimbus at Inspiring Performance 11. These would provide useful streams of work for any business setting up a new business model. They are:- IT infrastructure The control environment Content governance Skills management Community Programme support The CoE becomes the [...]
Phil Richardson creates new #biologize hashtag
With the growing interest in the application of biomimetics to business problems – leading researcher Dr Phil Richardson, chief executive, Thoughtcrew now use #biologize to help bring focus to all those Tweets that explore the emerging field of business biomimetics. The latest area to benefit from business biomiemtics is change management.
Thoughtcrew launches three new business biomimetic services
Business biomimetic solutions Thoughtcrew has developed three business biomimetic offers for leadership, change management and innovation. The following summary provides an overview of the offers and shows how these could work for your business. Business biomimetics and introduction This is a range of education and introduction to business biomimetics talks and workshops. Lasting from a [...]
The fish rots from the head analogy is wrong
It is true that a dead fish rots from the head due to the massive amount of water content compared to the muscular tail. However there is a serious flaw in the analogy. The analogy assumes that senior management are in the head of the fish and that they do such a bad job the [...]
Pictures from the Guide Dogs Paw Trek
I have just uploaded pictures from the Paw Trek at Longleat. There is one of Tessa with her bandanna after being awarded the Guide Dogs medal for fundraising. It was a really well organised day and very calm considering all the dogs that were there. Thanks to all the friends and customers of Thoughtcrew that [...]
When selecting a consultancy how important is their method?
Having worked for a number of consultancies (Deloitte, Druid, IBM and now Thoughtcrew) I have had mixed messages from clients about the importance of the consulting method in the buying decision. Those consultancies that slavishly promote and then implement using a ‘proven’ method seems to appeal to some whereas others prefer the ‘framework’ approach. A [...]
Organising meetings across different teams
If, like me, you need to organise meetings with teams that span different organisations it can be hard work. The IoD in the South West has used www.doodle.com to good effect where you can set up a pole of possible dates and times and then send this out. People tick when they are available then [...]
Phil Richardson is fundraising for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association – JustGiving
Phil Richardson is fundraising for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association – JustGiving Posted using ShareThis
Pet power – adding to the bottom line
Tessa our Alsation and company mascot for Thoughtcrew is doing a sponsored trek for Guide Dogs at the Longleat Estate. This is a demonstartion of how your pet can add value to the bottom line. In this case for Guide Dogs. With each Guide Dog costing about £50,000 to train and support it good to [...]
Race for Life – Sister and Neice – Biologized…….
Joanne and Charlotte are running the Race for Life and are looking for sponsorship. For evey £1 you sponsor and let us know by emailing race@biologize.com or put Biologize in the comments and we will match it with another £1. As Joanne is my baby sister it will be worth it just for the photo’s….. [...]
