A mid-winter’s country hike
“Let’s see how far we can walk before it gets dark today” I said to Richard Colston when, on one Sunday in early January 1960, we two Boy Scout patrol leaders went out into the Essex countryside for an exploratory...Read More →
New Lives for an Old Rod
“You need a new fly rod!” Sandy told me bluntly. I lived in Thurso in northern Scotland, fifty years ago, and used an old fly rod, inherited from my grandfather to fish for salmon on the River Thurso. The Thurso...Read More →
Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera delivers excellent productions locally in North East Scotland throughout the year, as well as throughout Scotland, broadly. Some of these are open-air, “pop-up” productions, delivered from a mobile, truck-mounted trailer stage, complete with musicians, in local parks and...Read More →
Permanent jobs in automation engineering available now at Silchester Control Systems Ltd (SCS)
Silchester Control Systems Ltd (SCS) near Alton, Hampshire is a well- established & growing automation & controls engineering systems integrator & registered partner for Rockwell/Allen Bradley’s controls products and systems, those from Siemens, Schneider Electric UK & other major systems...Read More →
Upsurge in international investment in Automation Engineering
A new article in the “Business” section of the Economist magazine of January 16th, 2021 focuses on the increased levels of international investment in control systems and automation. This is spurred on by Covid-19 and its effects on industrial manpower...Read More →
Alan Finn Sorts Out Business Tangles
My lifelong hobby of fly fishing for trout and salmon has also taught me lessons that have proven useful in my business career. One is sorting out business tangles – not so different from tangles in fishing line as one...Read More →
Silchester Control Systems Limited
FINNbiz Consultants are working closely now with Silchester Control Systems Ltd of Four Marks, near Alton, In Hampshire ,UK. Alan Finn is renewing existing business and researching new businness opportunities in electrical controls and panels and in process control systems...Read More →
New FINNbiz Consultants website
The new FINNbiz Consultants website is now running – please visit at www.finnbiz.com and tell us what you think of it, what you don’t like, what we should have included and haven’t, and how we might improve it further –...Read More →
Technology has changed marketing management
I studied for the Chartered Institiute of Marketing’s post-graduate diploma in marketing management in 1985-1986 and then later took a specialst MBA in strategic marketing (Hull University) in 1993 to 1995, before, and then just as, the internet and computing...Read More →
Alan Finn’s latest business book now published by Hodder and Stoughton
“MBA in a Week”, the latest business book by Alan Finn, is now published by Hodder and Stoughton in both e-book and in print formats. This book is aimed principally at aspiring and junior managers, most probably working in offices...Read More →