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Over the last few months, employers have been noticing an unusual phenomenon: many of their employees are resigning from their jobs.
This doesn’t sound that unusual - people resign all the time, but what’s different about this trend is both the numbers involved, and the fact that many of those resigning are not moving to new roles. They’re just resigning.
This briefing paper looks at how different organisations are tackling this trend. It covers: -
What is driving this trend
How tech firms can mitigate it
The importance of company culture
The tech industry is booming. Demand for technical services of all kinds, from software development to IT infrastructure is at an all-time high. However, the industry is facing a challenge - finding and retaining good people is hard.
As a continuation of our thought leadership programme, we invited senior people from companies based in Bristol and the South West to come together and reveal the techniques they use around cyber security
In this second briefing paper, we discuss how organisations can protect themselves. There are many things to consider and sometimes making the right decision is quite difficult.
In this report, we examine how to:
No other topic has dominated the boardroom agenda as consistently as cyber security in recent years. Concerns about the security of IT infrastructure and applications have grown steadily alongside organisations’ increasing reliance on these systems.
In the first of our cyber security briefing papers, we ask our selected organisations how they take steps to protect their organisation’s reputation and day-to-day productivity.
In this report we:
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Here are some of the people you might meet.
Nickie is an Account Manager with over 10 years’ experience working across multiple sectors. Taking a consultative approach to all interactions, she enjoys being the voice of the customer with her key focus being to ensure that client’s key business objectives are always at the forefront of all project decisions.
“Successful projects are founded on collaboration through excellent communication, and so I love being that conduit between the Client and the Ghyston team ensuring we are all working as one team towards a shared objective – creating a beautiful and functional piece of software! Supporting in this role ensures that we are able to cultivate long standing trusted partnerships with our clients and is why 85% of our work comes from repeat business.”See a project Nickie has worked on >
Alex is one of our technical leads, with years of experience delivering successful software projects across a broad range of industries. His development expertise is equally diverse, and he enjoys crafting highly interactive front-end applications just as much as he loves to put together complex back-end systems, or design cutting edge cloud solutions.
“I love breaking apart real-world problems and mapping them to technical solutions. It’s very rewarding to see how the software we develop enables our clients to overcome difficult challenges and drive their businesses forward, whilst also making life easier for end users.”See a project Alex has worked on >
Joey has a broad range of technical and project management experience, having started out as a developer before transitioning into project management and governance. He has managed some of our largest projects and enjoys working closely with our clients to deliver real business value.
“I’m a people and processes person at heart, so I enjoy getting to grips with a project and making it successful for everyone. One minute I might be suggesting a cost-saving solution, and the next I might be streamlining processes to allow developers to work more efficiently.”See a project Joey has worked on >
Jake started at Ghyston in 2014 as a developer and has had a variety of roles including support engineer, technical sales consultant, and now project manager. He loves working closely with customers to understand their businesses and figure out how we can use technology to help them achieve their goals.
“It’s always great when we’re able to talk to a customer, understand their problem, and then make a quick change to our code that saves them hours of work each day. Being able to use technology to solve real problems for people is what I love about my job.”See a project Jake has worked on >
Martin has a wealth of experience having performed almost any role imaginable in a software project, from Project Manager, Business Analyst and Team Lead through to System Architect and Technical Lead, and occasionally some development too. He now heads up our Support team helping to ensure that our customers’ critical systems keep on evolving to move with the business and technology needs.
“I’m a problem solver, there’s nothing I enjoy more than finding a creative way of solving a problem that one of our customers has encountered. Whether that problem is technical, process, strategic, or something else entirely, there’s nothing better than seeing your efforts make a real, immediate, positive business impact.”See a project Martin has worked on >
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