Cranfield University in Bedfordshire will host the 2014 Mindfulness at Work Conference on 23 September.  The conference aims to break new ground by evaluating the evidence base for mindfulness in the workplace from scientific, business, ...

You have all probably heard of the first two analogies for scorecards and measurement systems, but i created the third after talking to an executive of a large multi-national company. A Balanced Scorecard is like ...

We have murmurings from The Governor of the Bank of England about interest rates going up and there are lots of indicators suggesting the UK economy is doing well. The fall in unemployment is one ...

At yesterday’s roundtable, Jeff Boateng made a presentation on how they were trying to implement outcome based commissioning for Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group. As head of performance he has been helping the group ...

Today was graduation day at Cranfield University and Mark Baker (or as we should now cal him Dr Mark Baker) won the best doctoral thesis award for his work on the use of feedforaward control in the ...

Two interesting pieces of advice were given by the economist panel at this morning’s ICAEW Finance Directors conference. 1. Tony Greenham from the New Economics Foundation suggested that in developing economies such as the UK, ...

At the end of March, Cranfield University started its first module with Unipart entitled “Managing Performance Improvement” The programme combines elements of lean and six sigma thinking, which will lead to a Black Belt awarded ...

Royal Bank of Scotland today have announced that they are going to cap their bonuses at 100% of salaries. They are doing this rather than attempting to apply for the 200% bonus after UK Financial ...

The next business performance roundtable meeting is at Cranfield on Wednesday 8th April. We will be looking at the management of risk using some best practice case studies, performance management in policing and different performance ...

Police performance targets undermine morale, finds report - People Management Magazine Online http://www.cipd.co.uk/PM/peoplemanagement/b/weblog/archive/2014/04/04/police-performance-targets-undermine-morale-finds-report.aspx … We are back again in the argument of whether performance targets really work. The report talks about the consequences of the ...