What's the business? If you’ve lived in Paris for any length of time, you've probably suffered the misfortune of having a busted pipe or leaking boiler at home, or at least know a friend who has had one. This becomes a much more serious problem if you’re not home when the leak occurs. Imagine you are on holiday or just back in your home country where you might spend half the year and you get a phone call from the gardien or concierge, or even your neighbour below who is furious that their ceilings are ruined after a leak from your bathroom. So it’s not surprising that a business has started in the capital aimed at helping people to avoid this type of property nightmare. The website ApartCheck.com has recently launched in Paris in order to allow absent homeowners to keep tabs on their property while they’re away. Members of the Apartcheck team will visit clients' homes while they are away on a monthly or perhaps even weekly basis to give them … [Read more...] about My French Business: A new service to keep tabs on empty Paris apartments
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Building a Healthy Business on Customer Service
Robin Marshall Friday, November 23, 2018, 00:13 The driving force behind FirstMed Clinics, Dennis A. Diokno, says this is an extremely interesting time to be in the private healthcare business in Hungary, but it was a career he might never have had. If life had followed another path, he could now be a Coca-Cola executive. Dennis A. Diokno FirstMed, a multi-disciplinary clinic based in the Hattyúház building close to the Széll Kálmán tér metro station in Buda’s District II, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in February. When he opened up the business here, Diokno had already done something similar in Russia and then China. Having graduated from Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1991 with a Master of International Management degree, and with interesting jobs hard to find in the United States, Diokno took himself off to Moscow. He quickly got three interviews. Nothing came from the first with a pharma company, but the … [Read more...] about Building a Healthy Business on Customer Service
‘If you wait for something to hit the mainstream, your business won’t be looking at the menu; it’ll be on it’
How long have you been in your current role? I’ve been the Vice President of Cloud and Technology for the UK, Ireland and Israel for 2 years now. What are your day to day responsibilities? My role within Oracle is to lead the sales consulting and business development for all of technology offerings across UK, Ireland and Israel. I help to blend the strategy between on-premise solutions and cloud solutions, which is a key area of the strategy. What is your professional background? Previously I have been in several roles within Oracle, going back to 1994. I originally started as the Head of the Technology Office, and have since progressed to roles such as Chief Technology Architect of Western Europe, EMEA Hardware Engineered Systems Product Leader and Engineered Systems and Public Technology Cloud Leader for UK, Ireland and Israel. In 2016 I moved to my current role. How do your particular areas of expertise manifest themselves in your current role? One of my key areas of expertise … [Read more...] about ‘If you wait for something to hit the mainstream, your business won’t be looking at the menu; it’ll be on it’
Business Breakfast LIVE: British Gas owner loses 110,000 customers in four months amid competition
Good morning and welcome to the Business Breakfast live blog for Monday, May 14. This blog brings you all the breaking business news from the North East, UK and beyond - basically anything and everything from the world of business. I'm Coreena Ford and I'm running the blog this week and we start with an update from Centrica, owner of British Gas, which shows it lost more than 100,000 customers in the first four months of the year. The Beast from the East, however, certainly helped the business, with the cold snap triggering demand for energy. We also have news from the UK restaurant sector, from funeral firm Dignity, tech firm Petards and, as usual, I'll include reminders of some of our North East stories you may have missed over the weekend. If you'd like to contribute, tweet at @jnlbusiness, drop me a line at [email protected], tweet me at @Scoopford or call on 0191 2016331. Key Events Petards completes acquisition of RTS 08:42 British Gas owner loses 110,000 … [Read more...] about Business Breakfast LIVE: British Gas owner loses 110,000 customers in four months amid competition
‘As a paramedic I never knew if I’d make it home alive’
A west Hull mum has revealed how she was attacked on the job and confronted with knives during five harrowing years as a paramedic which sent her spiralling into depression. The 50-year-old, who does not want to be named, quit her job in December 2017 after 28 years working for Yorkshire Ambulance Service. She says she was pushed to breaking point after a number of tough callouts which saw her assaulted and worry about whether she would make it home alive to her two children. "Every time I left the house, especially on nights, I didn't know if I was going to come home or not. "Things came to a head in 2016 when I was out on a job and I was trying to perform CPR on a woman who had collapsed in the street. "I was trying to revive her but I couldn't do anything because every time I went to do CPR a relative on the scene kept pushing me off. "I couldn't do my job because of this ongoing assault and I couldn't ring the police because they were busy. "I was getting quite distressed and … [Read more...] about ‘As a paramedic I never knew if I’d make it home alive’