What is the future for IIoT in the current world of automation and control?
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems manage industrial processes automatically to reduce costs and regulate product quality. These process control systems have been in place now for many years, with improvements to the technology...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 →
The value of independent assessments of businesses
Most businesses see the value to be obtained from an independent assessment of their strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities by a trained, qualified and experienced business expert. But not all grasp at these opportunities. As the UK economy improves and...Read More →
The most important guideline for growth…
It’s simple to say but often hard to put into practice, the most important guideline for successfully growing a business is to trust your judgement and other people. The old saw but the best advice I can give is –...Read More →
As the UK’s economy grows……
…..so does the workload for independent consultants like FINNbiz Consultants. I help smaller, usually technical, engineering and/or manufacturing companies to profitable growth. The process is one typical in management consultancy, although helped by my engineering and business-to-business marketing backgrounds. First,...Read More →
Just finished writing a new book
I’ve just completed a new e-book for Hodder and Stoughton – “MBA in a Week”. It will be published later this year. What a slog though! Why do I do it? It’s great when you’ve finished it and the necessary...Read More →
GrowthAccelerator integrates with the Manufacturing Advisory Service to become the Business Growth Service
The Business Growth Service makes it easier for businesses with the ambition, capability and capacity to improve and grow – see: http://www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/businessgrowthservice/ FINNbiz Consultants have been registered to coach for the GrowthAccelerator and as consultants for the Manufacturing Advisory Service...Read More →
Can you step back from your business to see the wood for the trees?
Are you too close to your business? Can you identify the solutions to your problems? Can you even identify the problems? Are you working IN and not ON your business? When you are working hard in your business, face-to-face with...Read More →
The Book of Practical Inventing
FINNbiz Consultants’ Alan Finn has co-authored, project managed and edited a book with the Wessex Round Table of Inventors (WRTI), a group based at Southampton Solent University. The WRTI’s Book of Practical Inventing describes all the phases of new product...Read More →