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		<title>Ethics Not Dead In The Software Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/ethics-not-dead-in-the-software-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ethics Not Dead In The Software Industry", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/ethics-not-dead-in-the-software-industry/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Week for HCM Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Big Week for HCM Team", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/uncategorized/big-week-for-hcm-team/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What can the crash of Air France AF447 tell us about business intelligence?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/what-can-the-crash-of-air-france-af447-tell-us-about-business-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sands</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What can the crash of Air France AF447 tell us about business intelligence?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/what-can-the-crash-of-air-france-af447-tell-us-about-business-intelligence/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder&#8230;..", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Its not all downcast at downturn event</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/its-not-all-downcast-at-downturn-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Moulton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 20th May 2009 over 80 Finance Directors came together at the London Chamber of Commerce to meet and discuss practical actions that could help their organisations prosper in a downturn. Interestingly of those surveyed, 41% felt <a href="http://www.coasolutions.com/news/managing-in-a-downturn-events-2009.php">the upturn would come as soon as 2010.</a> <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Its not all downcast at downturn event", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/its-not-all-downcast-at-downturn-event/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>More about managing in the downturn</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/more-about-managing-in-the-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Emslie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>COA Solutions Guest Blogger Rick Emslie is principal of Emslie Analytics, a business that helps organisations measure their people contribution. He is also deputy chairman of AdviserPlus, a fast growing business which offers a unique HR advisory service; and one of three ‘old hands’ who run Oxen Park, a European network of HR leaders and business partners.</em><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More about managing in the downturn", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/more-about-managing-in-the-downturn/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Expensive, Moi ?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/expensive-moi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/expensive-moi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[expenses]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[forestry commission]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[house of commons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having famously been described by our Managing Director as "cheap to keep", I thought that I was beyond question when it came to the subject of expenses. No claims for swimming pool maintenance or eyeliners here. However, a recent series of events has prompted me to question even my own, rather humble, expectations.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Expensive, Moi ?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/expensive-moi/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Your Engagement Level at Work?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/what%e2%80%99s-your-engagement-level-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/what%e2%80%99s-your-engagement-level-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 08:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Irving</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>On loan from <strong>HR Zone</strong>, guest blogger <strong>Derek Irving</strong> discusses employee engagement levels at work on the lead up to our "<a href="http://www.coasolutions.com/events/hr-briefing">How To Prosper In a Downturn - The New Reality of HR</a>" event on the 20th May 2009 in London</em>

How's your level of engagement at work? Is the economy getting you down? Are you just trying to hang on? Or are you actually more focused on your work and enjoying it? If it is the latter, you’re not alone. Several studies are reporting increased levels of engagement.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What’s Your Engagement Level at Work?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/musings/what%e2%80%99s-your-engagement-level-at-work/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Managing In A Downturn - Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/managing-in-a-downturn-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/managing-in-a-downturn-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Donkin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Guest Blogger, Richard Donkin (author of Blood Sweat and Tears, The Evolution of Work and Financial Times columnist on work and careers) returns to the COA Solutions blog for a third time to discuss how to manage in the current downturn.</em>

Just as some employees are safer than others in a downturn, the same rule applies to corporate departments. Sales staff are usually secure, since without sales the whole company will fall.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Managing In A Downturn - Part 3", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/managing-in-a-downturn-part-3/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Fit for a Prince?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/fit-for-a-prince/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/fit-for-a-prince/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[business sponsorship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COA Solutions is part of the Prince’s Trust Technology Leadership Group that last year raised over £5million for the charity through a variety of staff based and corporate programmes.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fit for a Prince?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/events/fit-for-a-prince/" });</script>]]></description>
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