China is a geographically huge country, it covers over 3.700 Sq miles making it the fourth largest country in the world, behind Russia, Canada, and the USA, in that order.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Got a problem? First, tell me how you make toast
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step.
Shared Parental Leave: businesses can help set a new standard for leave allocation
Flexibility has become a real buzzword in the workplace with some employees preferring this right to a higher salary and other benefits. So on the face of it, the ability for new parents to share 50 weeks of leave should be a recipe for success.
Five fears preventing continuous improvement
Do you have the courage to confront your fears?
Could your organisation move to an empowerment culture?
Gary Cattermole is the co-founder and director of The Survey Initiative, a leading employee research provider specialising in employee engagement. Here he investigates the pros and cons of employee empowerment to shed some light on whether an empowerment culture could be right for your business.
Ahead of the Election: The role for digital infrastructure in the economy
With optimism among UK businesses beginning to slip in response to an uncertain global economy and diminishing Eurozone growth, it’s encouraging to see that in the build up to this year’s election, both major political parties have been giving a good amount of focus to digital – and so they should.
Dragons’ Den: Snacks, Camping and a Seabung
The penultimate episode in this series of Dragons’ Den brought to us fun, functionality, and a few nibbles.
New pension rules to automatically enrol staff into a scheme may stop firms hiring
Rules requiring companies to automatically enrol staff into a pension scheme may stop firms hiring them at all, warns StartUp Britain co-founder.
Corporate vs. Startup
More and more people have developed an appetite for entrepreneurship, fancying the idea of being their own boss and the freedom that comes with it.
Colocation doesn’t have to be an either or where Cloud is concerned
Having recently read a lot of articles debating the pros and cons of colocation versus cloud, it made me think about how fast this industry moves.
Business Hall of Shame to relaunch
Big businesses and their treatment of their small business suppliers has definitely been called into question in the past few months. It has also been a regular feature in the business pages.
Are you a slave to your email?
Over 40 years since the first one was sent, today many of us are constantly being bombarded with emails.
Businesses urged to maximise government funding for IP audit
Creative businesses could be sitting on tens of thousands of pounds in Intellectual Property (IP) assets.
Treating obesity as a disability: what recent ruling means for UK employers
A recent ruling by the European Court of Justice found that obesity could constitute a disability in certain circumstances where an individual’s weight hindered their “full and effective participation” in the workplace.
You Can’t Be An Apprenticeship Champion Without Championing Business
Ed Miliband’s so called ‘Apprenticeship Guarantee’ is nothing but an empty promise and would be doomed to failure on account of Labour’s continued antipathy towards, and hatred for, the business community.
