Falconbury Blog & Industry Comment
Welcome to Falconbury’s training and learning hub
Steve Jobs took the personal computer and, as he described it, turned it into a ‘digital hub’. By this he meant that it would co-ordinate a variety of devices, from music players to video recorders to cameras to manage your music, pictures, video, text and all aspects of your ‘digital lifestyle’.
In a more modest way, Falconbury has, through its new website, created a training and learning hub’!
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Prominent People = Poor Quality (in ideas for improving life in Britain)
Prominent People = Poor Quality (in ideas for improving life in Britain)
In October 2011, just before the Tory party conference, the Financial Times Magazine (normally a pretty dull read) had an article where certain prominent Tories were asked for five ideas each for David Cameron.
The people selected were David Davies, Archie Norman, Tracey Emin, Baroness Warsi, Lord Tebbit, Tim Montgomerie (e…
Paying Top Salaries – but that doesn’t mean you get Top People
Paying Top Salaries – but that doesn’t mean you get Top People
There is constant criticism of how excessive salaries and bonuses are in the City and almost continuous comment of how greed in the financial community has driven the economy off course and our society out of balance.
However, it doesn’t end there. The City folk are an easy target in some ways, but it goes further: what of the overpa…
Some ‘core’ values from Apple’s Steve Jobs
In the early days (fairly recently, actually, in the late 1970s and 80s), when businesses were computerising their systems and electronic publishing had only got as far as some computerised typesetting, Apple were frowned on by finance departments. Even in the publishing company I worked for, it was a battle to splash out the not inconsiderable sums on Apple Macs to computerise some of our busines…
Felixstowe –the berth of a nation!
The news that the Port of Felixstowe is opening new berths to take the next generation of giant container ships and creating 1500 jobs into the bargain is reported as good news. In some ways I suppose it is, but in so many other ways, it isn’t.
The facts are staggering: at present, the large container ships regularly coming in and out of Felixstowe carry15,000 containers, whereas the container sh…
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