Bridge news

  • JK Rowling - the fringe benefits of failure

    At her Harvard University commencement speech, 'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned." 

  • The year when Customer Service Meets Marketing

    I often think about how executives in Industry and within the Public Sector feel about all the noise going on in the world of social media.

  • Recession 'over' but employee engagement hits all-time low, CIPD warns

    Job satisfaction has plummeted among UK workers despite GDP figures out today which are expected to mark an end to the recession.

  • CRM revenues remain flat in 2010

    Customer relationship management (CRM) is weathering the economic downturn better than many other enterprise software applications, according to a recent European survey conducted by Gartner.

  • Bad service costing firms customers and cash

    Customers are likely to switch to other firms because of poor customer service – costing companies billions of pounds.

  • Employee development: The role of the line manager

    Examining the importance of the employee-line manager relationship in employee development with experts from the Insititute of Employment Studies.

  • Banking for all through the Post Office

    Almost half of the UK’s poorest people distrust high street banks, leading to calls for a state-led offering.

  • Three ways to enhance the value of psychometrics

    Are you wasting money on psychometric assessments? Ron Eldridge outlines three areas of focus that would help you use them to much greater effect.

  • Virgin offers customers banking alternative

    Richard Branson is promising to shake-up the UK retail banking market by using its buy-out of Church House Trust to offer an alternative to customers disillusioned by incumbent suppliers.

  • HOMEWORKING PROMISES TO REDUCE CALL CENTRE OUTLAY

    Live Agent is guaranteeing to slash contact centre running costs by establishing a homeworking outsourced service which will create 2,000 jobs over the next two years.