http://strategysquared.com Information and resources for business professionals. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:15:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Prince 2 is arguably one of the most well known Project Management methodologies around – and is fast becoming a must have in terms of both experience and professional certification for those looking for a career in Project Management. Prince 2 embodies years of best practice and provides users with a ... http://strategysquared.com/project-management/9-great-online-resources-for-prince-2-project-management/ We all know that corporate culture has a significant impact on how businesses are perceived by customers, so its interesting to see how BA are reacting following the difficulties with the launch of Terminal 5 and UK’s Heathrow airport. With two of its senior management “falling on their swords” following ... http://strategysquared.com/news/ba-reacts-to-t5-by-losing-senior-managers/ The BBC are running a news story today (here) that puts the cost of the worldwide credit crunch at approximately $1Trillion dollars. These figures come from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) who has warned that as the credit crunch seeps into other areas such as business debt, consumer credit and commercial ... http://strategysquared.com/news/the-amazing-cost-of-the-credit-crunch/ A few days after city analysits are bigging up Apple (analyst rates iphone sales up whopping 350% comes news that RIM makers of the infamous exec tool the Blackberry has reported an increase in profits for the first 3 months of its trading year. While we're sure this doesnt have anything ... http://strategysquared.com/news/blackberry-company-sees-profits-growth/ While we all love a gadget – sales of Apples must have iPhone look to continue to soar says the NY Post. Seems that analyst Piper Jaffray is estimating that upto 45 million iPhones will be sold in 2009. Apple have expanded its international offering of the iPhone considerably ... http://strategysquared.com/news/analyst-rates-iphone-sales-up-whopping-350/ On the day that the BBC announces that Northern Rock, the troubled UK mortgage lender, will payback the £24Billion ($50Billion ) (story here)state loan back during 2010 - news also surfaces of the pay-offs for the ex board. Adam Applegarth, Northern Rocks ex Chief Exec will get a payoff amounting to ... http://strategysquared.com/management/why-getting-it-wrong-still-makes-for-a-good-payday/ January 2nd No sooner have the new year celebrations finished and the first business news stories start surfacing and it's not all good news. Over in the UK the CBI organization is saying that the UK will face a difficult year with increased pressure over credit losses, rising food ... http://strategysquared.com/news/welcome-to-2008-look-forward-to-a-difficult-year/ With 2007 fading fast its about time we focused on what should be important in 2008. Taking the lessons that we learned from the business stories of 2007 – here is strategysqaured.com's new year resolutions for 2008 - got some of your own? Use the comments section below! 1/ ... http://strategysquared.com/management/10-new-years-resolutions-for-your-business-in-2008/ “What is a project” is a commonly asked question from new or non project managers. To begin with a project has a number of common characteristics. 1/ A group of tasks carried out in a definable time period to meet a specific objective 2/ It has a defined start and end 3/ ... http://strategysquared.com/project-management/defining-a-project/ 14 November 2007 OFWAT the UK's economic water regulator looks set to fine Southern Water upto £20 Million. The regulator claimes the company mis-represented information prior to October 2005 which resulted in poor services being delivered to customers. By mis-representing information the company was able to benefit from price reviews and ... http://strategysquared.com/news/ofwat-bites-southern-water-to-the-tune-of-20-million/