The Innovation Guide for business leaders, managers and new product developers, 'The Innovators Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Growth' is now available.

15 January 2009 - Growing a company isn't easy -- and it's even more difficult to do on a sustainable basis if you don't have a system for innovation built into your organization. Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI), an internationally recognized leader in performance-improvement systems, has released its newest title on one of today's hottest business topics, Innovation.  The Innovators Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Growth, by BMGI CEO David Silverstein, BMGI Chief Innovation Officer, Dr. Phil Samuel and business author Neil DeCarlo is now available.

A storage strategy to beat the credit squeeze

Even on a reduced budget, effective storage is still possible claims data centre consolidation experts, RichardsoNEyres

15th January 2009 – The tough economic climate need not threaten the storage of mission critical data if IT budgets come under threat claims RichardsoNEyres. The data centre consolidation specialists believe it is still possible for organisations to have an effective storage strategy on a reduced budget if they take advantage of new technologies, make use of their existing infrastructure and tier architecture correctly.

“Tighter IT budgets don’t necessarily mean that you need to compromise your organisation’s storage strategy,” said Adam Kemp, director, RichardsoNEyres. “Green initiatives and the increasing popularity of virtualisation technologies are already enabling many organisations to save money by using less power and reducing their server estate.

Leading foreign exchange and payment specialist connects to SWIFT and achieves greater Straight Through Processing

LONDON, 13th January, 2009 – SMA Financial (www.sma.co.uk), SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that Cal International (www.cal-intl.com) a leading payment solutions provider has gone live with SMA’s fully accredited SWIFT Bureau Service.

Cal International is fully owned subsidiary of Israel Credit Cards (Cal).  Cal International is a global payment provider offering full service payments solutions for the online environment.

By Claire West www.freshbusinessthinking.com

Unless we see banks start to lend again to small-to-medium size businesses we are going to see more companies going bust and rising unemployment.

Now I’m no economist but it’s obvious to me and just about whoever I speak to that the government’s attempts to date to rescue the economy quite frankly aren’t working.

Today’s cuts in interest rates, although they are now at historically low levels, won’t work on their own because of a number of reasons;