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Does your business/employer transfer any new information that comes into your business from update sources, into new or improved products and services? For example, as the evidence that we are heading towards a possible no-deal exit from the EU increases, have you researched and integrated a risk-assessment policy for your... read more →

Information is a double-edged sword. Not only do you need access to information, you also have to do something with the information you have accessed. There are two obvious choices: Discard information that has no use or relevance to your circumstances, or Make use of the new information to improve... read more →

We are all familiar with the sales cycle; the repetitive messaging that eventually converts some of our approaches into warm leads and onwards to a sale, but isn’t that the start of a different cycle? The phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” was first coined by Chaucer in the fourteenth century. In... read more →

At some time during 2010 to 2017, HMRC booted up a piece of fully integrated computer hardware that has likely transformed their ability to unearth tax-dodgers. During this period a number of data sources were accessed. The Connect Computer System (CCS) has the ability to gather data from disparate sources... read more →

During May and June, HMRC published details of deliberate tax defaulters and businesses not complying with money laundering regulations in 2018-19. In their introduction to the deliberate tax defaulters list, HMRC said: Each entry on this list is specific to the default dates to which it refers. The address is... read more →

According to well researched science we are all just six random contacts away from being in touch with anyone living on the planet. This “six degrees of separation” theory was first mooted in the 1920s and has received much attention by mathematicians ever since. To work, it seems that the... read more →

We have posted an article to our Informanagement blog this week entitled “Stressed Out?” (click here to view). It deals with issues raised by the constant need to communicate with staff, clients and the multitude of online distractions. So, we thought we would add to these distractions (!) and request... read more →

Communications come at us from multiple directions these days, and they all break our concentration. The effect on our demeanour can be the equivalent to sleep deprivation and stress levels start to rise. Setting boundaries is one way to deal with this problem, a nice, fat DO NOT DISTURB note... read more →

We are all required to embrace the digital reality. Could we really do business without email or without access to the internet? Speed of access is the current obsession: bandwidth matters, fibre matters, but what price do we attach to security? How many of us still have a “standard” password... read more →