Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?
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Wild Pear tree dating back 250 years hit by HS2 virus outbreak?

The second oldest England’s tree voted tree of the year five years ago was chopped down to make way for the high-speed rail link despite promises, petitions and available technology to reroot it in a safer place.

Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice
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Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…

DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making
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DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…

Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?
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Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:

Resilience Association Next Webinar on COVID-19 Exit Strategy
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Resilience Association Next Webinar on COVID-19 Exit Strategy

On Wed 29th July, 6pm: Opening the door on what leadership, management and operations are currently thinking about on the COVID-19 “new normal” About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar, this time focusing on “What does the new normal look like?” reason are delighted…

How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?
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How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?

Post written with Steve Yates, Chairman of the Resilience Association. Ensuring business continuity and resilience should be the priority, if not already the norm. 2019 was sadly a catastrophic year for certain industry sectors, with too many organizations going “bust”, in some cases a short time after their financial accounts had been cleared by top…

Supply and Demand organised dysfunctioning
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Resources mismanagement: an integral part of corporate strategy?

Illustration with the deconstruction of two retailers’ food waste stances. When it comes to business strategy and its operationalisation, one needs to be aware that what doesn’t make sense at all in the eyes of shareholders, society or the population/customers can be intentionally and knowingly implemented by the business’s executives/owners. And this post shows that…

How your Business’s ownership rights can bring you more fruits?
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How your Business’s ownership rights can bring you more fruits?

An introductory reflection on the three attributes of Property: Usus, Fructus and Abusus. As a qualification of the relationship between a person and a thing, ownership is, by nature, absolute. From a Roman long tradition feeding the emergence of civil law, ownership gives you what is called the Usus, Fructus and Abusus on your property/business. Usus denotes the right of…

How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?
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How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?

Illustration with mathematics teaching policies in the US and Japan. When analysing data or information, whether quantitative or qualitative and even policies, history matters. Indeed, history shows us the evolution and direction taken by events, which we can then appreciate against given quality assessment criteria. To those who believe that “good” and “bad” criteria don’t…

Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it
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Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it

A few facts to help and think about. At reason, we know that looking at facts is the beginning of the understanding of a topic, and an issue if it is seen as such. The Global Carbon Atlas is a good place to start when looking at facts about CO2 emissions. The below map shows the 2017 world’s…