Posted: February 5th, 2013 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital | Tags: 3rd Thursday, Access to finance, broadband, Business Support, Cloud Computing, competitiveness, Creative Industries, Digital Industries, Growing the business, innovation, Keys to success, leadership, management, New Media Industries, onlincolnshire, Productivity, rural broadband, Third Thursday, training | 1 Comment »
Join us at Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday 21st February at 8:30am for our third Thursday seminar. Meet colleagues over tea, coffee and croissant and share the knowledge of two key presenters. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 29th, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business, News | Tags: broadband, Business Advice, Business Growth, Business Opportunities, Business Support, Collaboration, competitiveness, customer service, Design, Digital Industries, Economic Growth, Growing the business, innovation, Keys to success, New Media Industries, Productivity, reduced overheads, Working as a team | Comments Off
The success of some of the region’s most innovative businesses was celebrated at last night’s Insider Yorkshire Digital & Technology Awards 2012. The awards, held at The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, attracted more than 200 businesses as the Yorkshire digital sector continues to grow and thrive. Richard Abbott, editor of Yorkshire Business Insider and compère for the event, praised the “exceptional home grown talent” in Yorkshire for its ability to win work on major international projects and for “genuinely setting the agenda for others to follow”.
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Posted: February 21st, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital | Tags: broadband, Business Growth, Business Support, Can't Get Online, competitiveness, Creative Industries, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, Economic Growth, Enterprise, Growing the business, home working, innovation, Keys to success, New Media Industries, Productivity, Public Sector, rural broadband | Comments Off
Click here to help make slow broadband a thing of the past
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Posted: February 16th, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: News | Tags: broadband, competitiveness, Creative Industries, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, Keys to success, New Media Industries, Productivity | Comments Off
The board of IXLeeds, from left, Emma Frost, Mark Fordyce, Thomas Mangin, Andy Davidson and Adam Beaumont
A NEW internet exchange has been launched today to provide faster and cheaper broadband for Yorkshire. The non-profit exchange point, which has been developed by a collaboration of organisations since 2008, also aims to make Yorkshire less dependent upon London.
York Data Services was one of the founding members of IXLeeds, with its managing director, Mark Fordyce, one of the founding directors of the new entity. Mr Fordyce explained that by enabling traffic to take a more direct route between many ISP networks, an IXP can improve the efficiency of the internet, resulting in a better service for the end user. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: December 19th, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Press Releases | Tags: broadband, Business Advice, Business Growth, Business Support, Collaboration, competitiveness, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, Economic Growth, Enterprise, Growing the business, innovation, Keys to success, Networks, New Media Industries, Productivity, Public Sector, rural broadband | Comments Off
CDI Alliance & Globe Consultants wins contract for Economic Development and Business Support
CDI Alliance, which was set up in July 2011 to carry on the legacy of the successful economic sector development and business support activity established by Yorkshire Forward and Business Link, has won a major contract in the neighbouring county of Lincolnshire. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 29th, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business | Tags: Business Growth, Chancellor's Autumn Statement, competitiveness, Economic Growth, Growing the business, Keys to success, Planning for the business's future, Productivity, Public Sector, Recession, the economy | Comments Off
Weekly Business Tweet – #09
Following on from last week’s business tweets on Steps to success, which talked about one of the steps being that of survival, this I want to cover in more detail.
Sometimes our best made business plans go horribly wrong, maybe because we misread the markets or changes happened that were beyond our control – such as global financial melt down.
So what do we do – we have to survive – there is a suit sat in 11 Downing Street thinking exactly the same thing.
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Posted: November 16th, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business | Tags: broadband, Can't Get Online, competitiveness, customer service, Digital Inclusion, Economic Growth, exports, Growing the business, innovation, John Popham, Productivity, rural broadband, social media, WiBE | 3 Comments »
Weekly business tweet – #07
Businesses have witnessed and contributed to the recent connectivity and economic growth debate about the High Speed 2 (HS2) and how it is a priority investment to join London with Birmingham and then HS2 links to Leeds and Manchester. We know there is already a commitment to widen the M1 with peak time use of the hard shoulder to improve transport logistics and to reduce business costs and delays. Have we got these priorities right? Is anyone standing back and looking at the comparative cost / investment, benefit and value of these £ Billion schemes compared to delivering super-fast broadband coverage, improving mobile broadband coverage and seeking specifically to meet the needs of rural businesses and communities? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 15th, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: News | Tags: Business Growth, Business Support, competitiveness, Growing the business, Keys to success, Leadership skills, Planning for the business's future, Productivity, staff satisfaction, teams, training courses | Comments Off
B-One Solutions and Consultancy Ltd have secured funding from the Skills Enhancement Fund for our Inspirational Leadership training programme. The programme offers an overview of the key elements in facilitating successful change for managers and providing value for money and additional support for team leaders. It covers the following areas;
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Posted: November 2nd, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business | Tags: competitiveness, creative nomads, customer service, flexible working, home working, innovation, Productivity, reduced overheads, staff satisfaction, teams, WiFi, work life balance | Comments Off
Weekly business tweet – #05
Does anyone remember clocking in for 8.30am, out and in for lunch and out again at 5.00pm? Did you have an electronic time keeping system with the file of reconciliation sheets you had to produce for errors? Older friends tell us of the days of interviews when you were not appointed if you could not make it in for 8.30am. These memories are not extinct in some organisations but most have adopted flexible and mobile working to improve services, reduce costs and be more responsive to customer demands. So where is the world of work going? What are the smart ways of working that reduce costs and improve business performance?
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