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Dr W Edwards Demings – Seven Deadly Sins

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

When Dr. W. Edwards Deming went to Japan in the early fifties, he found a nation that was largely destroyed. He shared with Japan a vision of management that helped to transform the Country into a world leader. As well as identifying 14 points he also identified 7 Deadly sins.

Lack of constancy of purpose
Emphasis [...]

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Dr. W. Edward Deming’s 14 points

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

When Dr. W. Edwards Deming went to Japan in the early fifties, he found a nation that was largely destroyed. He shared with Japan a vision of management that helped to transform the Country into a world leader.
Today in the West, we see huge corporations bankrupt and crumbling. We believe the Fourteen Points of Dr. [...]

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IBM Lotus Foundations for Small Business

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

IBM Lotus Foundations presents a real choice for Small Businesses vs Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS).
Foundations provides small businesses with an easy to use, turnkey collaboration solution. Foundations offers file storage, advanced backup and recovery, connectivity and security, collaboration and email and application services in one integrated package. Some of the things that set it [...]

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Why small businesses find IT people so inwood looking!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Article: IT standards are failing SMEs in Computer Weekly that provides a good summary as to how the IT community continues to be inwood looking.
The IT industry has many standards covering topics such as software asset management, IT service management, disaster recovery, business continuity, information security… there’s a long list of BS/ISO/IEC documents running into [...]

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Microsoft Exchange Alternatives

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Realistically there has been a lack of great alternatives for the provision of Business Class Calendaring and Email. However, with the advent of Google apps this may have indeed changed at least for the smaller business.
What you get for £37 per mailbox per month.

25Gb of storage
Access anywhere in the World via Webmail
Access mail off [...]

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Supporting indigenous communities in Honduras

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Video of on site training of chain of custody system supplied by Helveta.

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Chain of custody training in Honduras

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Training a group of users in the Rain Forest to use a chain of custody system developed by UK Company Helveta.

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Linux for small Companies

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

There are many tech centric views on the benefits of Linux vs Windows offerings, however what I wanted to do here was put together some benefits for “Joe the Plumber”.

Linux is open source and free as in speech, not as in beer. I am not prepared to say that it will cost any less to [...]

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Mobile apps and the New Google Phone

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Some interesting information about the Google Android G1 Phone available through T Mobile. There is an on going debate as to how open this is, it being a Google initiative, however that might be a case of not seeing the wood for the trees. Reality is that this gives developers and [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – Organic Results

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Attaining top organic results in the major search engines is sometimes presented as a magic art and sometimes can be done at major expense to a clients brand.
For those companies who value their brand we provide SEO best practice staples combined with a range of innovative SEO solutions including:  content creation,  press release [...]

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