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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...managers and their workers should factor into both how management upgrading projects are presented to prospective firm managers as well as into the expected take-up and long-term adherence of such improvements. This is a key consideration as many organisations push forward in enacting management upgrading projects around the world. This blog post is......
Business problem solving and improvement
Science, Maths & Technology

Business problem solving and improvement

...issues of business decline brought on by the deregulation of electricity and gas. Scottish Power: Applying Six Sigma A look at how Scottish Power used Six Sigma to streamline and improve their customer correspondence process. Scottish Power: Auditing and initiating projects A look at how Scottish Power use Six Sigma to manage projects and streamline the audit process....
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...management project. However, secondary data also has its disadvantages. The first and biggest problem is that most secondary data is collected by someone else, usually for different purposes, so such data may not be suitable for directly answering your project questions. The lack of familiarity with the data means that you will need time to fully understand it. For your...
SecureDrop
Society, Politics & Law

SecureDrop

...managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation. It was initiated by a non-governmental organisation/charity and researchers, scientists and educators and encourages people to participate through an online platform. SecureDrop is local, national, transnational and global in orientation and concerned with participation and democracy, politics and representation. The project is...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...project is quite an unusual one for an academic. It doesn’t involve designing and conducting experiments or interviews, but it does include several different kinds of research. It fairly rarely involves me writing in academic language, but it does draw on academic theory. It doesn’t require much in the way of funding, but it manages to reach a lot of people. In terms...
Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...Project]Jacky was working as a cleaner in a private care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was interviewed at her home by Suki Sangha from the Workers’ Stories Project in July 2022 and the extracts in this article derive from that interview. You can access the interview from the audio link below. Jacky initially shared her story of work during the early stages of...
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...manage. We ask some questions about the challenges it faces to remain successful in a competitive marketplace...[Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit] Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit Starting a new job is often daunting, but can you imagine what it must be like taking over at Oxfam? How do you manage an organisation with 5000 paid staff,...
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...project, which is that a smart city uses digital data to improve its management somehow. But I think we're rather less fixated in our research project on the idea of data and smart technologies specifically, because there are a lot of other aspects to a small city, which enable a city to become smart or not. For example, the kind of policies that its local authority has,...