Category: Opinion

All businesses have them, large or small, long term or short, and a massive 25% of firms with a turnover of £25 Million or less actually perceive them as their biggest threat.

Is paying the average blue-chip chief executive £5m a year, more than 180 times the average wage, excessive pay?  Not according to Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust, who have been accused of routinely supporting pay awards of big companies. This is reported in today’s FT which carries several hard-hitting stories –  “The hypocrisy of CEO […]

As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday, Qing Wang, Professor of Marketing and Innovation, reveals five reasons why she is a distinct advantage for UK business following her recent research of Chinese consumers in 13 cities covering five regions of China.

I wonder if the Vote Leave camp would be successful if it had to present its argument to a Dragons’ Den style panel – without any solid foundation to base its predictions on, I know they wouldn’t be getting a penny from me.

The debate surrounding a British exit from Europe in the upcoming June referendum has now been raging for six weeks , yet small and mid-sized businesses in the UK are still none the wiser as to the effect a Brexit could have on them.

It was promising to see economic figures showing the UK economy grew by 0.5 per cent in Q4 of 2015, more than previously estimated. But with Brexit in the balance and the Panama leaks sending geopolitical shockwaves, it’s no surprise that the NIESR’s most recent GDP estimates show that growth has stalled in the first quarter of this year.

In innovation, David needs Goliath, and Goliath needs David

The taxation treatment of dividends creates something of a policy conundrum for Government.

Love him or hate him, bombastic business tycoon and the Republican Party’s current frontrunner to become presidential candidate 2016, Donald Trump is undeniably successful.

One hundred years ago, in early 1916, Ernest Shackleton’s plans lay in tatters.  Having set off two years earlier to be the first to journey across the Antarctic, this Anglo-Irish explorer and his men had lost their ship to crushing ice.  They were stranded on an ice floe in the Weddell Sea facing a bleak and uncertain future.

Cybersecurity remains a key concern and a real threat to many businesses. As a recent study of 150 board members in the UK shows, the estimated average cost of lost data over one year could amount to as much as £1.2 million. Yet there still remains a lack of boardroom governance across the UK’s major industries.