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The Ministry of Justice has introduced changes to reform the way low-value personal injury claims arising from Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are managed. These changes are intended to “reduce insurance costs for ordinary motorists by tackling the continuing high number and cost of whiplash claims.(1)” After months of uncertainty, the publication of the rules surrounding these reforms to the Civil Liability Act will finally provide clarity on the process for future PI claims. These […]
Let’s be honest. Construction has faced some major challenges in recent years. The first lockdown halted projects for months, Brexit has reduced the size of the labour pool and now the changes to tax laws through IR35 legislation are on the horizon. These changes mean that medium and large construction firms will need to change their reliance on the traditional freelance and contract workforce. Is your business prepared? What will be […]
We are all suitably fed up with MS Teams and Zoom – spending days on end in front of your screen. The saturation point has been reached. There are so many tips out there, but most are unhelpful and hard to achieve. A no meeting day on Friday – easier said than done when you […]
Have we seen the end of the acceleration of globalization? The pandemic has shown the limitations of a global strategy and approach to organisational design and governance. How can a head office thousands of miles away understand the demands and quick reactions needed on the ground locally? This has been particularly felt by supply chains […]
Theodore Roosevelt once wisely said: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” There are parallels here with implementing a Lean culture in construction, which will bring in many tangible benefits, but the process will not be without challenges along the way, not least winning over hearts […]
Going back to a pre-Covid-19 economy isn’t going to happen. So the supply chain sector is adapting to new trading conditions. 2021 will see the continuation of a short-term focus on rapid changes and a need for agility, balanced against a need to adapt to longer-term trends that are redrawing the rule book of what is ‘normal’. This piece looks […]
More so now than ever – we are surrounded by change. Changing weather, lockdown changes, the environment, the economic climate, and changes to personal circumstances. Some we can control, and others we need to mitigate their impact. What we do know, as wisely said by Benjamin Franklin, is that: “Change is the only constant in […]
With one in five homes in the UK provided by the social housing sector, the demand on housing services is stronger than ever. The pressures of change on housing associations are coming from many different sources, creating an urgent need for dramatic reforms to operations and a need for increases in funding to tackle the […]
Volatile junior stakeholders, impossible assignments, pressure from all angles…. This is the reality for working parents in 2021. Throwing together work life and Home Learning has created the ultimate juggling act. We have all now become Project Sponsors, invested in the outcome of each school assignment delivery and suddenly having to prove what we know […]