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The 3 SIMple secrets to taming escalating mobile phone costs
26 Apr 2012 | Filed under: Cost ManagementIn this complex marketplace with a huge array of suppliers, tariffs, add-ons and equipment, businesses find it extremely difficult to discover the most effective cost solutions for mobile phone fleet management. According to Ofcom, “A whopping £4.8 billion is wasted every year.” Why? An industry insider suggests too many suppliers chasing connection targets and maximum [...]
Mobile phones management driving you up the pole? Auditel examines why
02 Apr 2012 | Filed under: Cost ManagementAccording to Ofcom, “A whopping £4.8 billion is wasted every year by customers being on the wrong tariff.” Why should this be? Why are so many customers apparently on the wrong tariff? Established in 1994, Auditel, the premier cost and purchase management consultancy in the UK and Ireland, offers their experience. In this complex marketplace [...]
Auditel backs “cleantech” growth mission to rebalance Greater Cambridge economy
24 Mar 2012 | Filed under: Cost Management, Industry NewsAuditel’s Ron Yellon, Cambridgeshire-based business owner and single point of contact for the UK’s leading cost and purchase management specialists among Cambridge Cleantech members, was at the three inaugural Special Interest Group (SIGs) events held in Cambridge last week – on Low Carbon Vehicles (at Ricardo), Building Technologies (at Mills & Reeve) and Smart Metering/Grids [...]
Ofgem maps out road to open up electricity wholesale market for independent suppliers
25 Feb 2012 | Filed under: Industry NewsConcerned that competition is being stifled and that independent suppliers and generators cannot buy or sell the power they need, Ofgem has thrown down a gauntlet by announcing proposals to open up the electricity wholesale market in “Intervention to enhance liquidity in the GB power market”, Ofgem 22nd Feb 2012, to benefit customers. Ofgem gives [...]
Poetic anti-valentine to energy companies: click here to read the meter
14 Feb 2012 | Filed under: Industry NewsThe Energy Ombudsman’s website on 14th February launched a tale of “lost love, suffering, heartache and ultimately rejection”, an anti-Valentine from an energy customer who had problems switching supplier. So I invited my friends to curl up beside the heater, chuckle at this corporate mirth and subtle electric meter…@Ronconomics: Taking cost and purchase management to [...]
Greening the red carpet: Emma (Watson), Martin (Scorsese)..and Albert (who?)
12 Feb 2012 | Filed under: Cost ManagementThe 2012 BAFTA Film Awards Fellowship was presented to Martin Scorsese at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony. Ron Yellon, Auditel, checks out BAFTA’s green credentials to see how “Living in the Material World” is being reconciled with a desire to be sustainable “Goodfellas”. The champagne was on ice and the red carpet had [...]
The Micawber Principle: your call to action on costs
07 Feb 2012 | Filed under: Cost Management“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” – Wilkins Micawber (David Copperfield by Charles Dickens). This famous and much loved quote reminds us of just how fine is the line between two very different states. Mr. Micawber swings [...]
Charities must dust off their “Big Board Talk” to achieve financial sustainability
29 Jan 2012 | Filed under: Cost Management“No organisation, whether business or charity, will survive difficult economic times without those in charge seriously looking at their financial health, direction and whether they’re making the best use of resources”. So said the Charities Commission in 2009 when it promoted its “Big Board talk initiative” – the conversation all charities need to have. This [...]
Auditel Make Initial Cost Savings of £266,000 for Soft Drinks Manufacturer.
29 Jan 2012 | Filed under: Cost ManagementSilver Springs Soft Drinks is the third largest, independent soft drinks manufacturer in the UK, based in Kent. With a workforce of around 140, they produce a number of branded drinks including such household names as Perfectly Clear, 1870 Mixes, Pulsar Isotonic, Fruit Squeeze and Stripes Cola, as well as many own brand drinks for [...]
Creating sustainable cost management through outsourcing
29 Jan 2012 | Filed under: Cost ManagementIn September 2010, Financial Director magazine stated: “Waxing lyrical on building an economic recovery is all very well, but there is a growing belief that 2013 will be the year a second recession kicks in. Which is why cost cutting is not about to go away, a well-worn topic though it is.” As Ron Yellon, [...]
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- The 3 SIMple secrets to taming escalating mobile phone costs
- Mobile phones management driving you up the pole? Auditel examines why
- Auditel backs “cleantech” growth mission to rebalance Greater Cambridge economy
- Ofgem maps out road to open up electricity wholesale market for independent suppliers
- Poetic anti-valentine to energy companies: click here to read the meter
- Greening the red carpet: Emma (Watson), Martin (Scorsese)..and Albert (who?)
- The Micawber Principle: your call to action on costs
- Charities must dust off their “Big Board Talk” to achieve financial sustainability
