New markets beckon for Consilium

Set up by IT entrepreneur Colin Reid as Task Software some 23 years ago, Consilium Technologies has turned in some unprecedented growth during good times and bad for the tech sector here. Like others in the field, the company spotted a niche - in its case for software to help local authorities run their various functions - and built a business on that niche.

Talking leadership...policing & business, paralells & differences

The Chief Constable of the PSNI, Sir Hugh Orde, is the most recent recipient of one of policing’s highest accolades, the 2008 Leadership Award from the United States Police Executive Research Forum. Sir Hugh received his award in Miami, following in the footsteps of the likes of William Bratton, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, and Charles Ramsay, former Chief of Washington Metropolitan Police.

Accountants will be more vocal says new chair

A glance around the boardroom walls at the Ulster Society of Chartered Accountants’ Belfast office is enough to show that Kevin MacAllister is the latest in a long and impressive line of those who’ve worn the chairman’s chain of office. MacAllister follows in the footsteps of Angela Reavey, the first woman to hold the post in the organisation’s 100+ year history, and he has firm views on what he’d like to achieve during his term of office.

SME assault next on agenda for Bank of Ireland

Bank of Ireland, for long the leader in the higher echelons of business banking, has launched a fresh assault on the SME marketplace here. And the bank’s Head of Business Banking, Michael Kidd, says that it’s all part of a determined effort to maintain its leadership in the wider marketplace.

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