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News - 2007
Some brief case studies
In late 2006 ley hill solutions was asked to review the complete inventory management system of the oldest Auction house in America – Samuel T. Freeman & Co of Philadelphia. Following an intensive review, new procedures were put in place and a major reassessment of property held in store undertaken. Looking at processes in the auction house we found very committed people trying to operate some outdated processes which did not provide effective systems of managing customers property brought in for auction. Freeman’s are now implementing our recommendations and looking forward to a successful series of sales in 2007.
Using our PRINCE II project management skills we have worked with Symbian and UIQ to separate a major customer database in the UK and Sweden. The database needed splitting into two due to a restructuring of the businesses and this involved ley hill solutions project managing the technical specialists working on the database changes and planning the shut-down and go-live of the new databases in both locations.
A garden machinery company – Briant’s of Risborough approached ley hill solutions to assist with the refurbishment of their main storage warehouse which needed complete re-flooring and re-racking to a very short timescale. ley hill solutions developed the new plans for the layout in the warehouse, arranged sub-contractors to lay new flooring, install racking and improve health and safety with the installation of mobile platform ladders for the warehouse staff to work safely at height.
For full case studies on these and other activities please follow this link.
Sponsorship
Having recently worked with local businesses to investigate the linkages between business and sport ley hill solutions is delighted to announce it’s sponsorship of Ley Hill Cricket Club.
Ley hill cricket club is located just outside of Chesham in Buckinghamshire and operates 3 senior teams and a burgeoning youth section of over 120 youngsters playing in age groups for 8 plus.
It has responsibility for two grounds around Chesham – at Ley Hill itself and also at Bellingdon.
We hope our sponsorship and relationship with the cricket club will develop over the years and we can support the continued growth of the club. Please keep an eye out for special sponsor events at the club.
For further information on the club please visit www.lhcc.org
Watch this space for further details of our sponsorship and events linked to the club.
BS25999
During the early part of 2007 BSI have launched the first part of the new Business Continuity Standard (BS25999). This standard will help business and organisations to develop approaches to ensure their survival in the event of major incidents such as fire flood or terrorism.
The first part of the standard is a code of practice that takes the form of guidance and recommendations, whilst the second part, which will be issued later in 2007, will be an auditable specification for business continuity management.
The second part which will be issued later in 2007 will be an auditable British Standard. Over the past 2 years ley hill solutions has been very active in promoting the benefits of business continuity to organisations both large and small. Our Managing Director – Graham Hull – is currently the Vice-Chair of the British Quality Foundations Business Continuity group which has developed over a series of workshop to command over 60 people at each event with waiting lists for new attendees. We have tried to educate smaller businesses through various workshops and presentations in association with business link through their rural business networks.
