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February 15, 2012

Alegra Safety

When it comes to safety, security and emergency/crisis management, in-house knowledge may not always be enough. Bringing in specialist expertise ensures that no stone is left unturned in the implementation of comprehensive systems to cover every eventuality.

When it comes to issues such as safety, security and emergency/crisis management, in-house knowledge may not always be enough. Bringing in specialist expertise ensures that no stone is left unturned in the implementation of robust and comprehensive systems to cover every eventuality.

Perth, Western Australia-based Alegra Safety is a consultancy offering safety management, risk management, emergency management, security management and OHS auditing to businesses of all sizes across the world.

January 18, 2012

The good boss

Insights for a healthy and productive workplace in challenging economic times.

The question is often asked, why do we work? Some people work to live and others live to work. Some find a balance where life and work flow naturally and seamlessly into one another.

The people we work with influence our experience. Our colleagues, clients, peers and bosses, all of those we cross paths with at work, bear some weight on our satisfaction, productivity, creativity and diligence.

January 16, 2012

Strategy: Consultants

One way of enhancing your business in 2012 is to hire a consultant—but you need to shop around, as Huw Hilditch-Roberts, director in charge at the Institute of Consulting, explains.

One way of enhancing your business in 2012 is to hire a consultant—but you need to shop around, as Huw Hilditch-Roberts, director in charge at the Institute of Consulting, explains.

November 30, 2011

Operations: Safety

Thomas R. Cutler makes the case for electric hand trucks, which pay for themselves in saving lost work time and compensation claims.

Thomas R. Cutler makes the case for electric hand trucks, which pay for themselves in saving lost work time and compensation claims.

The back is the most injury-prone part of the body. Almost everyone will suffer back pain at some time in his or her life, yet preventing back injury is much easier than healing a back injury.

October 18, 2011

Power and Water Corporation

As the first government owned corporation in the Northern Territory and the only combined utilities company in Australia, Power and Water Corporation is a trendsetter in a challenging environment.

As the first government owned corporation in the Northern Territory and the only combined utilities company in Australia, Power and Water Corporation is a trendsetter in a challenging environment, as Jane Bordenave reports.

June 15, 2011

Strategy: Business improvement

The best Microsoft Gold Partners consider themselves strategic partners for their clients, not merely technology solutions providers, says Thomas R. Cutler.

The best Microsoft Gold Partners consider themselves strategic partners for their clients, not merely technology solutions providers, says Thomas R. Cutler.

The concept of business improvement, whether part of a lean initiative, six sigma, or other continual process improvement methodology, is often one of the metrics or deliverables offered by many Microsoft Gold Partners.

March 23, 2011

Luba Freeport

As discovery succeeds discovery, the Gulf of Guinea is shooting up the ranks of global oil and gas producing regions—and servicing its demands is Luba Freeport, the new Jebel Ali.

As discovery succeeds discovery, the Gulf of Guinea is shooting up the ranks of global oil and gas producing regions—and servicing its demands is Luba Freeport, the new Jebel Ali.

It was in 1999 that the government of Equatorial Guinea realised that the port of Malabo would never be able to cope with the demands of an oil industry. But the island of Bioko is perfectly placed, not 50 miles from the coast of Cameroon and nestling between the Bight of Biafra and the Gulf of Guinea.

November 23, 2010

KK Security

When Nairobi residents Howard Crooks and Derek Oatway got fed up with playing golf and decided to start a business together in 1994, their attention was captured by a small security company based on the coast at Mombasa. Senior consultant Rocky Hitchcock tells John O’Hanlon how KK Security brought professionalism to East Africa’s security industry.

November 9, 2010

Strategy: Dealing with change

To achieve change and to thrive in today’s marketplace requires maximizing employee engagement more than ever before. It’s a matter of survival, says Richard Axelrod.

For 35 years, Chicago, Illinois–based consultant Richard Axelrod pioneered and championed the use of employee engagement to effect large-scale organizational change. He believes that times are different now. To achieve change and to thrive in today’s marketplace requires maximizing employee engagement more than ever before. It’s a matter of survival.

August 30, 2010

10 tips to better pricing

Pricing is one of the most important—yet underutilized—business strategies.

Start generating new profits and growth tomorrow morning

August 7, 2010

Strategy

Martin Ashcroft traces the development of strategic management into the 21st century.

Martin Ashcroft traces the development of strategic management into the 21st century.

July 1, 2009

Montecasino

Faites vos jeux
South Africa has changed beyond recognition since the change of government, and Alan Swaby looks at one thriving industry that was inconceivable less than 15 years ago.
The Afrikaans government didn’t like television, nor did the Dutch Reform Church, so South Africa didn’t get TV until 1976, long after the first man had walked on the moon. In those days people used to get dressed up to go to the bioscope, as cinema was known, and performances always began by playing the national anthem.

June 1, 2009

Kaap Agri Operations

A hive of activity
While the rest of the world has battened down the hatches, South Africa seems to be immune, as Alan Swaby learns when talking to one of the leading businesses.
Corwyn Botha is an unofficial but enthusiastic PR consultant for South Africa, never losing an opportunity to suggest that whomever he is talking to not only visits the country but better still, moves there permanently. But as the CEO of a company that is doubling its size and profitability every three years, it’s hardly surprising that he is feeling bullish as well as proud about the country he so obviously loves.

March 18, 2009

Goldcorp

All that glittersClaude Lemasson tells Gary Toushek how people-centric policies have helped Goldcorp go from junior miner to the world’s second-largest gold company. These days Claude Lemasson spends a lot of time traveling between his Toronto office and the James Bay area of northern Québec, looking after his current priority, the Éléonore project, a major new gold discovery situated within a relatively unexplored area of James Bay, in Cree Nation of Wemindji territory.