Category: Opinion

We spoke to some of the UKs leading entrepreneurs from around the UK to get their immediate reaction to what the Chancellor announced in his last budget before the General Election.

What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance?

With the amount owed to businesses in late payments standing at £46.1 billion the issue of managing a healthy cash flow and enforcing credit control is a significant one.

The last in the series and Duncan Bannatyne’s final episode of Dragons’ Den is upon us, and this week brought to us suits, energy drinks, and life-saving pieces of material.

Over the past 30 years, working habits have been completely transformed. Technology has been the most recognisable driver of this change – equipping employees with the tools to become more effective and efficient, but bringing with it new demands and pressures that just didn’t exist two or three decades ago.

Simon Devonshire, Entrepreneur in Residence @BISgovUK and Director at Wayra Europe talks about why consumer behaviour has changed.

As bosses and managers we can relate to how underperforming employees exhaust us while outperforming staff energise and power the business to the next level.

Companies must demonstrate how they can add value to client businesses to avoid the race to the bottom says Cliff Findlay, MD of strategic branding agency Latitude Solutions.

In his latest column Johnny McGinley argues that now is the time for Corporate Communications professionals in SMEs to drive a deeper and more strategic alliance with their Human Resources colleagues.

How you deal with the initial 10 minutes of the workday largely can determine how effective and productive you will be the remainder of the day.

On this International Women’s Day I think we need to out the elephant in the room – are us women part of the problem?

The lesser known personality type “ambivert” is a good balance between introversion and extroversion.

As my remaining hair slopes sneakily off towards the white end of the black-white spectrum, it seems my clients and friends are ageing too. In many cases they are taking on more and more responsibility, working harder and longer but is that helping?

In his latest article, John Ritchie, CEO of Ellipse reflects on how to build a brand and the steps he took when setting up the company.

As “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) continues to take centre stage in the IT landscape, less attention has been given to the rise of another tech trend known as “Shadow IT” or “Bring Your Own Collaboration (BYOC), whereby employees use consumer-grade file-sharing and collaboration software, for example iCloud, in the workplace.