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		<title>Why are businesses still opting for huge ERP implementations?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2010/03/15/why-huge-erp-system-implementations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson, MD of COA Solutions.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From electronic data interchange (EDI) to customer relationship management (CRM), IT directors were keen to talk up the importance of their latest three-letter acronym-based project. Top of these initiatives came enterprise resource planning (ERP), an all-encompassing approach to resource management.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why are businesses still opting for huge ERP implementations?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2010/03/15/why-huge-erp-system-implementations/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Employee engagement, business intelligence and Sunday morning football.</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/12/14/employee-engagement-business-intelligence-and-sunday-morning-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sands</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Employee engagement, business intelligence and Sunday morning football.", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/12/14/employee-engagement-business-intelligence-and-sunday-morning-football/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Element Of Business Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/11/13/business-intelligence-and-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decision making]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Human Element Of Business Intelligence", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/11/13/business-intelligence-and-decision-making/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Time Management Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/09/14/time-management-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Hawthorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Guest blogger <strong>Phil Hawthorn</strong> 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</em><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Time Management Tips", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/09/14/time-management-tips/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Time Wasters</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/08/14/time-wasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Hawthorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Guest blogger <strong>Phil Hawthorn</strong> returns to the COA Solutions blog to discuss Time Management ahead of the upcoming <a href="http://www.coasolutions.com/events/efin-sig.php?do_ID=120&#038;PID=blog">eFinancials Annual National User Conference.</a> 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.<em><script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Time Wasters", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/08/14/time-wasters/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>More or less?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/08/06/more-or-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Hawthorn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Guest blogger <strong>Phil Hawthorn</strong> has run <a href="http://www.therivernetwork.co.uk">One Step Ahead</a> 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.</em>

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....<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More or less?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/08/06/more-or-less/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Judged by The Company You Keep?</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/07/14/judged-by-the-company-you-keep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/07/14/judged-by-the-company-you-keep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Judged by The Company You Keep?", url: "http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/07/14/judged-by-the-company-you-keep/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics Not Dead In The Software Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/06/25/ethics-not-dead-in-the-software-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/06/25/ethics-not-dead-in-the-software-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accounting software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/?p=224</guid>
		<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/2009/06/25/ethics-not-dead-in-the-software-industry/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Week for HCM Team</title>
		<link>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/06/19/big-week-for-hcm-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/2009/06/19/big-week-for-hcm-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coasolutions.com/blog/?p=219</guid>
		<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/2009/06/19/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/2009/06/18/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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		<category><![CDATA[management]]></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/2009/06/18/what-can-the-crash-of-air-france-af447-tell-us-about-business-intelligence/" });</script>]]></description>
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