April 2015 - This Old Hand

Making the most of your office space – boosting productivity and creativity

3rd May 201930th April 2015 by This Old Hand

Utilising your office space to ensure your employees are happy and content is an absolute must these days. According to recent studies, the British workforce works the longest hours in Europe with up to 70 hours per week. An employee who spends this amount of time in the office needs to have surroundings that not … Read more

Out of control rents in Silicon Roundabout push tech startups away

3rd May 201929th April 2015 by This Old Hand

Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, a reference to Silicon Valley in California, is home to a huge number of tech businesses and a popular location for start ups. But the soaring cost of property in this sought-after location is pushing new companies away in favour of more competitive rents elsewhere. Renting office space anywhere in London brings with it huge … Read more

Are open plan offices counter productive?

3rd May 201928th April 2015 by This Old Hand

Back in November 2013 the Angel Offices team created a write-up to help you decide whether you should go open plan with your office design. Now the debate is back on the table. Open plan offices are supposed to encourage your team to collaborate more, and can help you squeeze more workers into the floor space … Read more

Internal marketing

28th November 201918th April 2015 by This Old Hand

Internal marketing views the employees in your organisation as internal customers. As customers, they have needs that must be fulfilled, just like your external customers, so that they can and will carry out their responsibilities to the highest standard.

Creative problem solving techniques

15th October 202118th April 2015 by This Old Hand

Throughout your career, you’ll come across problems and these problem solving techniques will help you to solve them. From analogies to assumption surfacing and good old brainstorming, these techniques help to get you thinking about your problem in new ways.

Finding opportunities for your business using Ansoff’s Matrix

28th November 201918th April 2015 by This Old Hand

If your business is looking to expand, the Product-Market Growth Matrix – usually referred to as the Ansoff Matrix – can be a useful tool to help you create a strategy. The matrix, which was first published in the Harvard Business Review, identiﬁes four different possible approaches – market penetration, market development, product development and diversiﬁcation. In this article I explain how these approaches could work for your business.