PI Consulting News
Business resilience survey highlights 7 key development areas
Posted: 07 Nov 2008
PI Consulting’s business resilience survey highlights 7 areas where businesses are missing opportunities to improve performance and manage risk.
Respondents to the survey assessed their businesses in the areas of: strategy and direction; financial control, treasury and management information; customers and markets; operations and supply chain; and employee engagement and motivation.
PI Consulting forms partnership alliance with Nimbus
Posted: 03 Oct 2008
Business consulting and advisory firm PI Consulting has today formalised its relationship with business process software specialists Nimbus Partners.
Nimbus delivers leading software solutions to over 700 companies in 15 countries to capture, analyse and communicate their business processes. Nimbus Control software is an important tool for delivering high performance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.
Employer mentoring scheme gives students the chance to develop essential ‘business skills’
Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Anglia Ruskin University's annual Mentoring Awards ceremony has taken place at the University's East Road campus in Cambridge to mark the successful conclusion of the 2007-2008 Scheme
The scheme, which attracted some 50 or so business participants in this its fifth year, is designed to match students at university with individuals in a relevant job, who make a commitment to help them gain an understanding of their work environment, its culture, its expectations, its demands and even its frustrations.
Business resilience and performance: Free Health Check helps SMEs protect against economic downturn
Posted: 18 Jun 2008
A free online tool has been launched today (16 June 2008) to help small and medium sized businesses check their resilience to economic downturn.
The Self Assessment Business Diagnostic has been developed by business consulting and advisory firm PI Consulting.
It’s a five minute online questionnaire which examines how a company is performing in five key areas of business, then awards a percentage score.
Any business with a low score is very poorly prepared, and, according to PI Consulting, at high risk of not making it through any serious economic downturn.
BBC Business News
Repossession of homes up by 12%
The number of properties repossessed by mortgage lenders rose by 12% to 11,300 in the third quarter of the year.
Citigroup plunges on uncertainty
Shares in Citigroup, one of the biggest banks in the US, fell sharply on Friday amid uncertainty over the company's future.
Darling 'to force banks to lend'
Chancellor Alistair Darling is reportedly planning to force banks to lend to small firms in the pre-Budget report.
