If analysis from Ofsted is to be taken at face value, it seems that one way for a maintained school or academy to improve its rating is to join an already-thriving MAT. According to a report from the education watchdog, which looked at 1,600 inspection reports before and after joining a MAT, the majority of schools made significant improvements.
- Topic:
- Education
With the education purse strings showing no signs of loosening, budgeting and financial forecasting for schools, academies and multi-academy trusts (MATs) is becoming increasingly complex. Here, Jane Gibson explains how cloud-based school financial software can help simplify the process by eliminating a number of redundant or duplicated tasks which are draining staff resources and hindering productivity.
- Topic:
- Education
When it comes to technology, the attitudes across different generations can cause quite the divide. In hospitality, business owners can often be caught up thinking of how they prefer to work, rather than how those around them would prefer to work.
- Topic:
- Hospitality
Restaurant operators are facing many of the same challenges in the first part of 2019 as they did in 2018. Rising rents & rates, increase in food prices, changing consumer habits and the uncertainty brought about by Brexit. All these factors are hitting operators bottom line hard.
While you can’t tackle the increase in food prices directly, operators can become savvier about how they control their costs and provide a service that will keep their customers coming back for more. In a recent survey commissioned by Access Hospitality, in conjunction with The Caterer, over half of respondents stated bringing in measures to better control their costs gave them the greatest ROI, and 62% saw improving overall profitability as the biggest priority moving forward in the next 12 months.
- Topic:
- Hospitality
Ongoing development of manufacturing sites is essential to provide future-state readiness of a continually evolving business environment. Site Master Planning is one common approach but is often misused.
SMP processes should consider growth aspirations and product portfolios that can be delivered competitively. Failing to fully understand capacity drivers of existing operations will prevent Senior Leadership Teams from defining development programmes with optimal capital employed.
With an accurate model of operational capacity, all members of the management team including finance, operations, sales, logistics and production, can make better and more transparent decisions working from a common understanding of why an investment should be made, when and where.
- Topic:
- Supply Chain
This is a very common question that we’re often asked. ERP stands for enterprise resource planning. It was once the domain of large corporations. But with the advances in technology, it’s also become a viable route for many mid-market organisations. In itself, the term doesn’t really tell us a great deal, so we’ve broken down the key elements below:
- Topic:
- Finance
