Delivering
the "grand vision" by successful transformational
change
Almost
everything in our culture today has become about change -
whether it is our houses, gardens, lifestyles or appearance
- so it is not surprising that organisations and businesses
also find themselves facing major pressures to change the
way they deliver their services. 4-consulting director
Ros Southcott explores an approach to transformational
change which enables organisations to successfully deliver
the "grand vision."
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Ways
to succeed at project management and transform your
business
The truth is that
84% of projects fail in some way - so what can you do to
stop that happening to you? 4-consulting director Sandy
Pratt looks at current project management techniques and
pitfalls to watch out for as well as explaining an approach
which helped one 4-consulting client, Martin Currie
Investment Management Limited,
becoming one of the top
50 companies to work for in the UK as well as make dramatic
improvements in its project success rates.
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Tricks
and Tops for Word and Excel
Use your
word processing software more productively and discover how
to format envelope addresses, remove personal information
from documents, use negative indents to highlight text,
paste shortcuts, print double-sided reports and create a
table of contents. Improve your knowledge of spreadsheet
modelling with shortcuts, calculating days in each month,
3-dimension calculations and cell comments.
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Our
News
Since our last edition 4-consulting has been continuing
to grow. We have won some important new clients including
the Ministry of Defence, the BBC, the Forestry Commission,
British Airports Authority and the Scottish Youth Theatre.
As well as this, we have been carrying out new projects for
our existing clients, and have been appointed to the
Scottish Enterprise consultancy supply framework contract.
One of our directors, Eric Smith, has left 4-consulting
to take up a senior sales position and we wish him well in
his new career. Ralph
Leishman and Ros Soutcott
have taken over responsibility for looking after his
clients.
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Tell
us Your View
In our last
issue, we asked if you would be facing major organisational
change this year and around half of
you said YES showing how important
change management and project management will be in 2004. In
the last year, 4-consulting
helped an increasing number of client organisations to
manage change including:
·
The
BBC
·
Victim
Support Scotland
·
Student
Loans Company
Here’s our new 4-consulting
forum question.
Compared
with this time last year, are
you more optimistic for your organisation for the next year
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