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Yesterday I read the MacLeod review on employee engagement, ‘Engaging for Success’ . It bought to mind my experience as a Sunday footballer. Much of the time I played in teams who were at the bottom or close to the bottom of the league. Getting out of bed on a Sunday morning was miserable. The pitches were always too wet or too hard. The knocks always hurt. And what has this got to do with David MacLeod and Nita Clarke’s report? Well, it reminded me that when I played in a team that did very well, funnily enough getting out of bed was easy, the pitches were great and it was easy to shrug off bumps and bruises. Under all the criteria of engagement I would say that I was much more engaged when we were winning.

One area of business intelligence that is getting more and more attention is decision making. We are capable of processing huge amounts of data now with very sophisticated software, but as we have seen in the Financial Sector, the most sophisticated user of information, there can still be cataclysmic repercussions.

Guest blogger Phil Hawthorn continues his look at Time Management and highlights the key points that were covered at the recent COA Solutions eFinancials Annual National User Conference and offers a selection of practical time management tips

Guest blogger Phil Hawthorn returns to the COA Solutions blog to discuss Time Management ahead of the upcoming eFinancials Annual National User Conference. Phil has run One Step Ahead since 1996 – a training company specialising in team and enabling skills. After 13 years, help with time management is still the most common requested workshop, so he will be passing on his experience and tips for a more efficient future.

Guest blogger Phil Hawthorn has run One Step Ahead since 1996 – a training company specialising in team and enabling skills. After 13 years, help with time management is still the most common requested workshop, so he will be passing on his experience and tips for a more efficient future.

It is the way of the world, now. Even before the phrase sub-prime morphed into world financial crisis, and finally the dreaded “R” word – recession – entered our everyday lexicon, every organisation I have ever worked with wants to improve efficiency and effectiveness….

My mother is full of age-old wisdom and sayings. One that was often heard through-out my teenage years was ” You will be judged by the company you keep”, mainly used to discourage me from falling into the wrong crowd and to get me to concentrate on where I wanted to be in the future.

We recently received a call from one of our Account Managers who had seen a posting on a popular accountancy forum asking for help. The person who had posted the question had been looking for a finance system

Its been a big week for the COA Solutions HCM team this week. Firstly, they brought together all HCM customers for the first time at one venue for the COA Solutions HCM User Group.

One of the questions that always goes through my mind when I am on a plane waiting for take off is, ‘Am I safer because there is a pilot flying this machine or would I be safer without him?’. This was brought home to me with the media discussion on the crash of the Air France Airbus 330.

Like many companies, at COA Solutions we have scaled down our internal recruitment as we tough out the worst of the economic downturn. Our acquisitions strategy has always made us mindful of the importance of running efficient processes to eradicate duplication of effort and job roles. By undertaking a common sense approach to our workforce we have avoided the brutal pruning seen at many other software organisations.