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New Blogs on the DMH Stallard Business Beanstalk

I’ve recently been blogging about lean and other things on the DMH Stallard Business Beanstalk   Please follow the links to get to the story http://businessbeanstalk.net/2013/03/21/a-lean-mean-business-machine http://businessbeanstalk.net/2013/03/28/a-lean-office http://businessbeanstalk.net/2013/06/11/i-dont-want-to-go-lean   More to follow…  

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Information waste in the office environment

  Information waste in the office environment   In my recent blog about “lean” I discussed the various ways that waste can be defined and how to identify non-value adding activities.   In my experience of lean the emphasis is … Continue reading

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The trials and tribulations of exporting and working overseas

    We are told that the way to salvation for the UK’s stagnating economy is for all businesses to export. Additionally it’s not just to our fellow members of the EU but also to the emerging markets around the … Continue reading

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Partnerships in Surrey

Looking back on the Olympic games I’m sure we are all pleased with the way the Olympic events reflected on the County. Although the mens’s road race didn’t go to plan, or the rest didn’t follow our plan! The other … Continue reading

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The misappropriation of “lean”

One of the frustrating things about the “lean revolution” that has occurred in manufacturing and other sectors over the last 20 years or so has been the misappropriation of the term “lean”.   I have heard countless business leaders refer … Continue reading

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DMH Stallard move into Surrey

DMH Stallard Completes Merger with Callaghans Solicitors DMH Stallard LLP, based in London and the South East, today announced the completion of its merger with Surrey based Callaghans. The new firm will be called DMH Stallard. The merger of DMH … Continue reading

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New partnership in Surrey

Surrey County Council & IoD set key partnership I was very pleased to sign a new memorandum of understanding with Surrey County Council on behalf of the Surrey branch of IoD recently. With economic growth stagnating it’s very important that … Continue reading

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Secure your data- Protect your business

I pleased to say that in my capacity as Strategic Advisor- Manufacturing to leading law firm DMH Stallard we have recently published the third in our series of thought leadership reports into the issues affecting Technology and Engineering businesses in … Continue reading

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Data security and the cloud

We are currently in the final editing stage of the DMH Stallard report concerned with data security and the use of “cloud computing”. It’s been a very interesting study into how businesses manage their data and keep it secure when … Continue reading

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