Maidsfield Blog - Partnering and Business Development

In running a business there are a number of stakeholders including Customers, Staff, Suppliers, Shareholders and Government Agencies.

What makes it all work is getting the balance right:

This list is not quite in the right order, but the measurements are interrelated and a balance should be sought.

We are driven or motivated by many things.

Have many times had you felt really good after a very satisfying days work only to ask yourself “What have I achieved today to put more cash in my bank?” Then you realise that you were happy for the wrong reasons.

We all love appreciation and are proud of ourselves when we do a good job. Your shareholders and/or employers are happy when you’re happy but they’re happier when you’re making money for the company.

Many people enter their companies or themselves for awards and seek to gain press time when it offers no value to their company’s objectives at all. So why do the do it?

They’re not all wrong reasons, but they may not be valid company reasons.

When you feel good about how you are progressing, then ask yourself is it reflected or recognised in how you are measured in your job?

There’s a saying: “Tell how I’m measured and I’ll tell you how I act?”

I had some initial troubles with dirt under the screen surface of my new Tecra. O’Neill IT replaced it promptly and I am very happy with my choice of machine.

I bought the Toshiba Tecra M7 Tablet PC because of supposedly productivity improvements and I’m simply an early adopter buyer.

Over the past week flying around the US, I got work completed in confined spaces on airplanes. I wouldn’t have had the room or the time otherwise to complete a time critical document. I am getting better at manipulating documents and writing in Tablet mode. The battery life was almost 3 hours. I do need to get a Toshiba Slice Expansion battery.

Its now 9:10pm, Chicago time.

Our 4:10pm flight to Indianapolis was cancelled, as were many others.

10:25pm was the next earliest I could get out on. I must check if its departing on time.

There are always a shortage of power outlets in airports, always.

I’ve seen it a number of times in the past few years where a company wrongly perceives another company to be a competitor. They are supplying into the same market sector and their message is not very different to yours. In reality they turn out to be ideal partners.

NOW, it’s happening to us (Campbell Informatics) and my gut is telling me that they’re an ideal partner but people in our market perceive them to be competitors.

We do indeed have some commonality in the problems we solve. We both also provide for other related areas that the other is not interested in solving, as I see it anyway.

I am calling them this week to seek to meet and discuss joint opportunities.

I’m looking for a construction project alert service for US and European based pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Protel is one for UK and Ireland. CIS Ireland is one for Ireland only….

Who does it for US and European wide?

We have launched a corporate blog for Campbell Informatics.

The management of facilities, systems, equipments and processes for Pharmaceutical/Biotech Manufacturers is bound for great changes and Campbell Informatics are at the leading edge of this change.

So read about the methods to implement Quality-by-Design, Process Analytical Technologies, Engineering and Quality Management and more in an integrated data centric manner.

Check out www.campbellinformatics.com/blog

I bought a Toshiba Tecra Tablet PC and am still getting up to speed with the tablet functions.

But now, it’s going back. I have a strange problem with the screen. There seems to be dust just under the surface of the screen gathered around the centre. It’s irritating.

I’m currently waiting for Toshiba to replace my screen.