2020: Delivering an ‘impossible target’
As 2020 looms nearer, so the government’s target of smart meter installation in every home seems increasingly ambitious. Recent research by the Which? Group shows that even operating for 24 hours, 7 days a week, companies will collectively need to install meters at a rate of 24 per minute to hit the roll-out target. The […]
CMI HE Conference 2018
As a result of receiving the CMI Undergraduate Award from Bournemouth University, one of our Graduate Management Consultants, Tamara Kelly, was invited to attend the CMI HE Conference 2018 in London. The purpose of the conference was to showcase the work CMI and its partnered Universities have completed over the past year and celebrate the […]
Women in Consulting – Forging Your Own Path
The Young MCA held an event earlier this month at IBM’s Southbank office in London, which three of the Managementors team attended. The event focused around Women in Consulting and business psychology. Speaking at the event were Helen Frewin, Talent Director at Totem Consulting, and Natasha Abajian, a postgraduate Business Psychology student from City University, […]
Managementors supports Computacenter with project in South Africa
Managementors continues its long-term relationship with Computacenter, leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with a performance improvement project within the infrastructure team in South Africa. Managementors has previously developed and implemented new ways of working across a number of Computacenter business units, and is looking to achieve the same results in South Africa. The […]
Telecommuting and Mobile Workforces – how to effectively manage a team remotely
Over the past few years, continuous developments in technology have led to an increase in the number of remotely managed workforces. Have you noticed? Has checking Skype for Business become an essential way of determining whether a colleague is working remotely or not? If so, this is an example of telecommuting, a form of communication […]
Managementors named as one of the top UK management consultancies
Managementors is delighted to announce that it has been named one of the top UK management consultancies in 2018 by the Financial Times. The list was compiled by research company Statista, based on two surveys; a client survey among senior executives who have previously worked with consultancies, and an expert survey of partners and executives […]
Cutting waste to achieve growth with OCS
Managementors has recently completed a performance improvement project with the field teams of OCS Group Ltd, on a national Utilities contract. Managementors worked with arborists, planners, managers and administrative staff to significantly reduce costs and sub-contractor expenditure. To increase the productivity of the teams, Managementors successfully developed new processes, implemented a fresh, effective planning system […]
A snowball on the tip of an iceberg
How many pieces of information is your brain receiving right now? 100? 1,000? 10,000? Not even close. Psychologists believe that at any given time, our brains are receiving around 11 million pieces of information. Sounds exhausting, right? In fact, although we are constantly being inundated with information, the ‘conscious’ part of our brains can only […]
Redundancy vs Performance Management – Building a Performance Culture
When organisations face the question of what to do about poor financial performance, they often consider redundancy as the easiest option. Whilst redundancy is often seen as an efficient way of cutting costs through headcount reduction, the redundancy process has a number of pitfalls that make performance management a more successful long term strategy for […]
SLA and Productivity – Friends or Enemies?
The overwhelming majority of Service Providers will have their performance and responsiveness measured against Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) – contractual obligations with the customer defining certain quality standards. Most businesses rely on service providers to support their day-to-day operations. For many companies, this dependency means a fault occurring can have a significant impact on their […]
