Texting and instant messaging is all the rage these days, as is bad spelling, acronyms and using no punctuation or capital letters. The frantic and frequency of these exchanges seems to negate the need for adequate spelling, punctuation and grammar. This is to help you get to grips with text speak (or txt spk).

Anytime from mid to late June, my diary is normally reserved for attendance at HITEC, undoubtedly the world's leading hospitality technology event. This year I came away excited by the evidence that the global hotel industry and its technology providers are working on the right issues.

It makes sense to reduce the probability of employees leaving through dissatisfaction. It also makes sense to maximise the contribution and satisfaction from your most engaged employees. However, in many ways, it makes even more sense to focus your efforts on the bulk of employees who are neither engaged nor disengaged.

Many developers and hotel owners have jumped into bed with a hotel operator under the terms of a 20-year or more management contract on little more than a whim. Having been engaged recently by several clients to assist in the search and selection for hotel operators, what have we learnt?

With multiple projects to manage, tight deadlines to adhere to and large sums of money resting on you and your teams shoulders there is no doubt that a day out of the office for you and your staff could boost moral and give you all a well needed break.

Package coding management is an important factor in food manufacture, where it is a proven means of preventing coding errors for increased accuracy.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services are becoming very popular in businesses around the world. To put it simply, VoIP telephony is an internet phone. Using the same technology that allows other data to be sent over the internet, such as emails, pictures and music, VoIP allows live conversations over the internet.

With the proliferation of high speed broadband services and the dissemination of powerful personal computers throughout homes in the developed world, communication has never before been more catered for.

Project management is all about making things happen. It's about bringing successful completion to a project accomplishing predetermined goals and objectives. The main challenge for a project manager is to achieve all these goals and objectives while adhering to other constraints such as time and budget.

Investing in stocks and shares has become much more popular in recent years, because of the wealth of information available to prospective investors. It's easy to see why more and more people are so keen to invest in shares, as over time they have consistently outperformed all other investments.