Author Archives: James Collings
Are You Being Served?
He had his rivals ‘green’ with envy when he turned around the ailing BHS stores; he perked up Dorothy Perkins and put Topshop top of the pile. We all realised Sir Philip Green was something special. So when he says … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Freelancing
Tagged Budgets, Coalition Government, David Cameron, Freelancers, Government, Philip Green, Procurement
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Take That “Flood” the system… is this “Progress”?
Last Friday saw the release of tickets for the “Progress” tour by Take That. In every previous release of tickets for every previous major event, be it sporting or music, the ticket websites and phone lines have failed to cope … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Capacity Management
Tagged Acceptable Levels, Demand, Demand Management, Foresight, Period Of Time, predictable, Quality Of Service
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How absurd is your average?
I was listening to the radio this morning, and they announced some "fun" statistics in the way that they often do to entertain. For example; The average person spends 3 years of their life driving their car The average woman … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Capacity Management
Tagged Absurdity, Average, CPU, Granularity, Measure, Monitor, Statistics, Utilisation, Workload
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