Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Businesses in the Hospitality Industry are most at risk of compromising client card data. What can managers do to improve their own business and set it apart from their peers? I was impressed with many of the pointers in Visa...
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
“We have to date engaged Expense Reduction Analysts on ten categories of expenditure with travel and hotels our next target for review as this forms a large part of our spend. Our experience to date of working with Expense...
Beating the Budget
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
A Guide for Public Sector Organisations A big theme of the emergency budget was (unsurprisingly) efficiency of public services. The Chancellor has committed reductions in planned public spending starting at £23 billion in 2011/12, and rising to £99 billion in 2015/16. This Guide,...
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Visa's contactless cards in UK circulation passed the 8 million mark in June and will grow to 12 million by the year end, so reckons the card scheme. Whilst much of the current growth is down to Barclays' decision to issue contactless cards as...
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
“ ……. the most professional pro-active guys I have dealt with – and you know I am not easily pleased…..” Richard Slatford Financial Controller Royal Academy of...
Monday, June 14th, 2010
There may be some bumps in the road to economic recovery ahead as has been indicated by the disappointing growth in services showing a slowdown during May in both new business and employment. Analysts had expected a strong reading...
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Given the economic circumstances, a focused approach to cost analysis and management cannot be overestimated. An often overlooked fact is that it is easier to control costs than to create new sales. Considerable investment (not necessarily financial, but also in...
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Currently, when a call from a landline to a mobile or a cross network mobile call is made, the receiving network is allowed to make a termination charge of 4.3 pence. This charge is regulated by Ofcom and was...
Buying Groups – The Price of Everything, The Value of Nothing?
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Many organisations, public and private sector, educational, charity or company, use a buying group, buying consortium or Group Purchasing Organisation (GPO) in the UK. They provide useful savings over and above those available to the individual organisations and help...
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Understand Your Profile Some carriers charge per consignment, others by parcel. If the ratio of parcels to consignments is one to one - it may be more cost effective to use a supplier that charges a parcel rate International / Domestic Some...