"EE's decision on Friday is surprising in the context of a contract that has more than a year to run and leaves the board with no alternative but to seek the administrator's protection in the interests of all its stakeholders".
The B Team, which will be launched in a live online broadcast to more than 200 gatherings in 60 cities around the world, will be holding community events over the next few months to get input from stakeholders and is encouraging people to submit their views on a new charter for better business at www.bteam.org.org
"However, what is emerging now is a much more collaborative approach with all stakeholders seeing how they can align their services to fill gaps.
I look forward to working with colleagues and stakeholders on these important issues.
The organisation's teaching fellows work with the communities and the parents – who they consider the biggest stakeholders – to ensure that they are all on board and involved with the girls' education.
"What we are doing today is in the best interests of the ABC and its many stakeholders.
Encourage a broad range of stakeholders in community-based projects: It is important to have a range of stakeholders playing a role.
Nonetheless, we are optimistic that the Katine project has laid a foundation which the government and other stakeholders would pick up from".
"You can't eat bricks and mortar," stakeholders told me.
We had a rigorous, three-month consultation process led by officers, and the cabinet member for regeneration Rubina Khan was part and parcel of that, and we met the stakeholders and people were quite excited, but of course there was some anxiety and opposition but we made sure we heeded those apprehensions and accommodated them.
Continuous engagement with participants has been at the forefront of the project, which has included coffee mornings with older residents to discuss the ideas and workshops with stakeholders and council procurement staff to find new working processes with small businesses.
