Category: Opinion

Four months after the consultation closed the government has responded on the issue of late payment. Alex Jackman takes a look at the detail.

Buying a ready-made business may look like a dream scenario and your ticket to a job you love

Hewlett Packard recently announced 50,000 job cuts. What could be a more graphic example of the changing dynamics of the work place?

With the 2014 World Cup looming, we thought there was no better time to discuss the similarities between football and business, and the overwhelming highs and heart-breaking lows that come with them both

Many of today’s entrepreneurs find advantages in pursuing an early international footprint. However, given differences in regulations and business practices from country to country, the smooth navigation of global expansion requires no small amount of knowledge and skill.

How Spiritually Intelligent are you? Do you rely on that little inner voice we call intuition to guide you in your life and business, or perhaps you’re letting your ego get in the way of your decision making?

It only takes a few distractions to eat up half of your workday. Here are 5 ways to focus.

As a hotly debated topic in the news agenda, ‘responsible business’ is term that is often used to identify those that are either environmentally conscious or that give generously to charity; but can responsible business – or indeed responsible leadership – really be summed up as simply as this?

Every business owner needs to day dream – it’s an essential skill if you want to grow your business and ensure it reaches its full potential.

Earlier this year I read about a particularly strange case of corporate sabotage – a disgruntled worker at Frost and Sullivan was finally caught after a three year period of repeating squirting Cillit Bang cleaning fluid into the company’s IT system.

Average people think overconfidence is a character fault; entrepreneurs embrace it.

Many of the small business owners reading this column have growth in their sights. Graduating from a startup to an SME, then to something much larger, is a demanding process and there are many businesses that find it very difficult to scale up.

It might seem like the right thing to do, but blowing one’s own trumpet really hard can often lead to disenfranchised customers and disinterested prospects. After all, it’s not about you is it? Ashley Carr, Managing Director, Neo PR, discusses how all the time one is monologuing one misses out on having a dialogue.

It does not matter how good your marketing plans are, how good your product or service is, or how much money you have to spend, the only real asset any business has is the people who can use its resources effectively to produce profitable income.

Matt Jones, Media Director at Studio Tri, an award winning Cardiff based advertising agency, looks at emerging digital advertising trends in 2014.