Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Monday 16th June marked the start of the first ever London Technology Week, a five-day festival showcasing “London’s role as the digital capital of Europe.” 30,000 people gathered across the capital to attend hundreds of events, hearing from some of the world’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The Queen’s Speech earlier this year surprised many by the number of bills included. For the Forum of Private Business, one stood out. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill contains a range of measures to support small businesses. Alexander Jackman picks out the main clauses and highlights the battlegrounds in the months ahead.
With an estimated 61 per cent of UK adults using social networking sites, social media is the most popular online activity for internet users, and it is no secret that this offers excellent opportunities for business growth.
With the World Cup final this weekend and everyone talking about Germany’s amazing 7-1 win over the host team Brazil last night, many people reflecting on what went wrong for the England team.
One of the most overlooked aspects of being a leader is the inherent need for personal courage.
No matter how much drive you have – there is one thing that will always beat it when it comes to business success.
Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the shop. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on fuel? What would happen to your productivity?
We rarely hear the words ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘poet’ in one sentence, and any permutation of the two together (think ‘entrepreneurial poet’ or ‘poetic entrepreneur’) feels like an oxymoron.
Cloud computing has been touted as an IT game-changer for over 10 years, but it’s only now that businesses have become comfortable enough with the model that we’re starting to see real innovation in the market.
There is nothing wrong with having ambition as an entrepreneur; it is what drives us all to get out of bed. We want to make our businesses as successful as possible, and in many cases people want to expand overseas as quickly as possible.
As a result of today’s change in the law, every employee now has the right to request flexible working hours, and to have their request considered seriously.
It’s always interesting when I’m talking to agencies about selling. Whether they’re specialists in Design, Branding, PR, Marketing, or Digital and Social Media, not many people in those organisations would consider themselves ‘professional salespeople’.
In a bid to achieve continuous, reliable connectivity and deliver 100% Internet access uptime, organisations are increasingly exploring a raft of new business continuity communications opportunities – from microwave to 4G.
Strong teamwork is key to any company’s success and it’s therefore important to promote and nourish its development through teambuilding.
We should get rid of the National Minimum Wage. If a man or woman puts in a decent week’s graft and still doesn’t have enough money to pay for a decent, basic standard of living, then the country that person lives in needs to look long and hard at itself.
