Autumn: a new term for it?
Have you been thinking about buying a new pencil case lately? Or imagined tying a really fat knot in your tie? Well you’re not alone.
Today is the start of the new school term for most of the country and even if you don’t have kids the seasonal change will have a discernible effect. (I can’t be the only one.)
An alternative look at alternative energy?
This probably isn’t the first place you come for an art review, so imagine the surprise photographer Toby Smith is going to have when he investigates the latest link to his The Renewables Project and finds us here.
The Renewables Project is based on Toby’s hauntingly beautiful images of alternative energy sources in the Scottish Highlands – like this one (disclaimer: I don’t actually know what most of them are):
Edible curtains? I like…
I stumbled across a neat little initiative while perusing BusinessGreen during my lunch break – edible curtains. Yes. Not technically curtains, mind you, which was a little disappointing but I am still impressed.
The Sunday papers
There is something weirdly nostalgic about the British seaside (a mood captured quite neatly here actually). Decaying piers. Plastic buckets and spades, archaic amusement arcades, fish and chips in newspaper wrappers. Rubbish weather.
It should be a terrible experience. But I have just spent a long weekend down in East Sussex. We had great food, friendly service (generally) and lots of fun. It helps when you are watching your 18 month old daughter charging hysterically along the rolling dunes of Camber Sands.
Managing product recall risk: retail channel
How closely is your business’s communication department tied into your reseller or retail network? If the answer is “not very” or similar then you’re likely to find yourself up against it in the event of a product recall.
Effective recalls depend on clear communication to stakeholders, and a committed effort by retailers to remove affected product from shelves as quickly as possible is the most visible example of this in action. But proper planning for a recall extends beyond just clearing shelves.
Tim Luckett talks recall and reputation with Communication World
As our regular readers would be aware, our unofficial theme of the month is product recall communication.Coincidentally, US-based industry magazine, Communication World, has featured an opionion piece on this topic, by our very own Lead Counsel for issues and crisis management, Tim Luckett.
Energy – a slow burner
As you might expect from working in an energy and industrials team, you get to hear plenty of industry buzzwords and phrases – my particular favourite at the moment is ‘energy futures’. Like a lot of buzzwords it’s not a wholly articulate term, rather it hints at the future prognosis of the energy industry and suggests a bold new future where our energy use will change radically from present.
The ears and the conscience
My clients and colleagues know that I can get quite passionate about what we do…
Last week’s data from the CIPD’s quarterly survey sparked a not untypical response from me. The survey revealed that 32% of organisations are expecting to make redundancies this year. Now that’s a big number (although perhaps not as big as we might have expected?)…
Managing product recall risk: consumers
Following on from last week’s post featuring Zurich’s online product recall risk management game, we thought (based on some fairly shirty feedback from an individual with a disappointingly low score) that we’d provide some additional information that may be helpful.
