Media Archive
News releases
Head Light Communications announces availability of eagerly-awaited report
Head Light Communications and the Best Practice Club announce the availability of a report entitled 'Current practice in 'best practice'. The report, in dealing with issues such as 'making the case for best practice' and 'engaging people', reveals practical strategies employed in today's large organisations seeking to make lasting improvements in the performance of their operations. This report is available free of charge from Head Light Communications. Request a copy here.
Head Light Communications awarded contract by AWE
Head Light Communications has been awarded a contract from AWE to support their efforts in process improvement across the business. The initial focus will be the capture and distillation of existing internal best practice.
Head Light Communications forms partnership with Learning Forte
Head Light Communications and Learning Forte are bringing together their combined capabilities to enable HR organisations to have a greater impact on the performance of their businesses. Read the press release.
Head Light Communications awarded major contract by Motorola
In a fiercely contested bidding situation, Head Light Communications have been awarded a major contract to supply services to improve productivity and competitiveness. Click here for more information.
Our work featured in Grainger's Annual Report, January 2006
Grainger Trust plc have featured two projects within their latest Annual Report - their Intranet, The Source, that we helped them launch internally over the summer and 'The Balancing Act', a programme delivered electronically built using the balanced scorecard concept and integrated with models of best practice for property managers. See Page 13 of their Annual Report available fromwww.graingertrust.co.uk.
Survey of Business Improvement Network members, January 2006
In conjunction with The Business Improvement Network (BIN), we conducted an online survey of over 1500 BIN members in late 2005 to identify the key areas of challenge and focus for the membership, comprising quality professionals - mainly in-house - in the UK and Ireland).
Over a period of 3 weeks, 200 respondents gave their views on topics as diverse as 'financial resource management'; and 'developing vision and strategy'. The results show that the most significant issue for the network members relates to 'building the people-capability for excellence', attracting the largest number of responses and the highest significance weighting.
In terms of priorities for the coming year, the main two improvement areas for members are:
- people management and development, and
- managing improvement and change.
The Business Improvement Network and Head Light Communications will hold a series of networking and knowledge sharing sessions designed to target the major areas of interest and development that this survey has identified.
If you would like to know more about these sessions, this survey, the Business Improvement Network or Head Light Communications, please visit the web sites below or use the following contact details:
Head Light Communications - Ian Lee-Emery, 0118 989 3555, www.head-light.co.uk
Business Improvement Network - Jim Wade, 0118 987 5120, www.bin.co.uk
Editorial coverage
Training Technology & Human Resources Magazine, May/June 2006
Page 25 and 26 carries an article written by Ian Lee-Emery on the practical steps that HR leaders can take to develop the capabilities of their organisation to deliver business driven HR interventions. Click here to go to our Information Request page to request a copy.
Speaking engagements
Alex Welsh of Head Light Communications will be participating on a panel session at the forthcoming e-learning network event on May 19th in London. Contact the e-learningnetwork (www.elearningnetwork.org) for more information and event enrolment.
E-Learning Network Conference, February 2006. 'The business impact of e-learning'
It seems we may now be entering a new phase of maturity in the e-learning industry in which the focus is less on the means and more on the end, and the end is one that is able to demonstrate real business value. This presentation will explore some of the key learnings (good and bad) from attempts to do this. Contact the e-learningnetwork (www.elearningnetwork.org) for more information and event enrolment.
Conferences and events
Working in conjunction with us and hosted by RM in Abingdon, the Business Improvement Network is bringing together business improvement professionals from a wide range of organisations to share information about issues and solutions. There will be speakers from BT, O2 and Unilever, followed by three rounds of breakout discussion sessions. Download a PDF file of the event details here and to sign up for this event, please contact Jim Wade at the Business Improvement Network on 0118 987 5120 or e-mail jim.wade@bin.co.uk.
Best Practice Club - 2nd Regional Annual Gateway Meeting, Manchester, January 18th 2006
The second event in this series of three moves from London to Manchester.
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