Last week I experienced a very interesting perspective shift. Of all the places it happened when we spent some time with the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors at their combined Wales and South West regional meeting. The theme of the meeting was to explore the interplay between the audit and human resources functions. When we […]
As a budget manager, you have a pile of cash to spend within 12 months. The end of the year is approaching and in the back of your mind you know that the £20,000 still sloshing around from underspend will be worth £20,000 on 31 March, yet when you wake up on 1 April, […]
Traditionally funding works whereby an organisation, often a Council or other government body, puts together a bid to a funding body. The funding body will look at the sketch of a plan to decide whether it will fund further research into the initial idea, often called phase 1 or stage 1 funding. From this, the […]
A few months ago, listening to BBC Radio 4, I heard a government minister use a word, or one of its derivatives, well over 48 times in a four minute segment. Well, I only started counting after I had heard it half a dozen times and I stopped counting at 48, but the barrage continued. […]