This Friday at The Value Engineers we are having our annual room swap, when by we resuffle everyone in the office so that we work with new people. 

The benefit of working in an old coaching inn is that each room becomes like a small close knit family and by the end of the year we have, where we are lucky, made life long friendships.  The disadvantage is that it is easy to be distant from consultants who work in other rooms.  A reshuffle means that we keep our old friends but have the opportunity to make new ones.

Its also like a creative breath of fresh air as new people bring new ideas and new ways of working – it helps us to create a culture that is constantly changing and reinventing itself and is one of the reasons I enjoy working at The Value Engineers.

This year we have dipped into our annual charity budget to treat us all to a cream team – a welcome treat on a hot day of lugging boxes around and a great way of generating money for Action Medical Research.

If you’d like to treat your office and feel good about it, you can order a cream tea here.

We are very pleased to welcome a new Consultant, Daniella Betts.

Daniella had a varied career prior to joining us, starting her career in traditional management consulting at Accenture, via a stint at Australian bank Westpac before bursting onto the innovation scene at ?What If! in 2006.
 
As well as having worked across many different categories, from dog food to pharmaceuticals, Daniella is an innovation specialist who has worked across the spectrum of brand innovation consulting.
 
Having just returned from an 18-month career break which she spent snowboarding in Whistler, Canada, Daniella is now happy to be back in London where she can indulge her other passions of music and food.

• “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion” – Anon
• “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought” – Blaise Pascal
• “We are no doubt in the great age of the brand” – Tom Peters
• “Truly great brands are far more than labels for products. They are symbols that encapsulate the desires of consumers” – Anon
• “It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact” – Edmund Burke