I hope you all had a relaxing and fun-filled Easter weekend. The weather has been sunny and bright here in Yorkshire and it feels as though Spring has sprung …at last. It’s great to see all the buds coming out in blossom, the shoots emerging from hard ground and the leaves all […]
Here at Serenwood, we love working for small, entrepreneurial companies and particularly those with ambitious goals and grandiose ideas. After all, if you don’t have grandiose ideas in this life, how will you ever produce anything useful? It’s a well known fact that the early stages of building a business is where specialist […]
Once upon a time, six thirsty bankers agreed to ‘render their firstborn child or favourite pet for all eternity’ in return for free Wifi. Is this a fairy tale to scare our kids at bedtime or is it a true story? Here are the facts. In a coffee shop in […]
We’ve been busily collecting some 360º feedback from clients recently, in order to enhance and improve our service offering. (Thank you so much to all who have contributed, it is greatly appreciated.) Here is one interesting piece of feedback which I have been thinking about today: “it’s fascinating how Rachel always manages to make […]
Had a fantastic and interesting meeting with a potential new client today. An exciting package of work, an imminent deadline, lots of relationship management required both in the supply chain and the internal teams. Culturally this client is an ideal match for us – entrepreneurial spirit, embracing change, big vision, […]
I have to admit, I actually really love January. Why, I hear you ask? – what is there to love? After all, it’s cold, it’s dark, everyone has given up drinking and started diets and gruelling exercise regimes. Everywhere we look, people are moaning about having no money, being tired, feeling […]
We’re speaking to a new client at the moment about agile contracting. By which I mean – they have agile technology on their strategic agenda, and they need focussed commercial advice to better understand and drive the contracting model to support it. It’s really great to be having this conversation with a client at an early […]
Last week we blogged about the importance of properly understanding any contractual terms you are signing up to, and ensuring that you are protecting your own business with well thought out and clearly drafted standard terms and conditions. I was talking with a client this week about my blog post, […]
Have you ever stopped to consider why large businesses insist on trading on their own standard terms and conditions? (known as “t’s and c’s” to those in the know). The short answer is because a well-drafted, fit for purpose contractual agreement which protects the business is an absolute necessity, to legally […]
Here is a post to get you thinking about contract management. At a high level the rules are very simple. But as with many things in life, the devil is in the detail so don’t be disheartened at the thought of how difficult it may feel to get this embedded […]