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"The Montreal protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The ...
Time flies! It’s been a while since my last blog, which I wrote when we were on our study tour, and now it's the time of the year for our thesis project! As logistics and ...
Being able to predict the behaviour of materials is one of the key skills of a structural engineer. A structural engineer must know how to design components so that they can carry the loads in ...
We were just reflecting at the latest Round Table on Matthew Syed’s book “Black Box Thinking” (2015, John Murray Publishing, London) and in particular on learning from failure. So what I have done here is ...
So in our previous blog, we mentioned that we come across challenges like - “We’re going to do ‘Demand Management’ using Method ‘X’”. Per previous blog, our usual response is to unpick this requirement statement ...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants’ (ICAEW) latest Business Confidence Monitor makes unhappy reading. One of the largest and most comprehensive quarterly reviews of UK business confidence, the report shows business confidence is now in negative ...
My earliest memory of Cranfield University is moving into the newly built number 9 Handley Page Close and then taking the bus to Aspley Guise to go to junior school there. I can also recall ...
How many times has a senior executive approached you and said, “We’re going to use Method ‘X’ to improve our business processes”? What flies through your mind when you hear this: “I didn’t know our ...
What is the organisational culture like? The organisational culture in Skanska is rather relaxed, which I absolutely love. I think it comes from Sweden’s rather easy-going approach to life and that is reflected in the ...
Something that I often find troubling is people tell me, “David, you have to show people information in a way they can best consume it”. My initial reaction was, “No, they have to understand the ...