The competition between ecommerce and conventional offline shopping channels continues to heat up – even at the high end of the consumer market.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
How to create a cohesive online-to-offline customer experience
Looking around your local high street you would think that physical shops were phasing out in favour of online shopping. However studies have shown that the internet has assisted the physical purchase of goods instore rather than hindered or deterred it.
6 challenges you forgot to plan for when you launched your business
Entrepreneurs launch new products and services all the time, however while some new businesses thrive, others can struggle to get going.
Why Family Business is Big Business
There is a huge misconception around the term “family business”. The words seems inextricably linked to the idea of small business; of Mum and Dad toiling round the clock in a corner shop or the reluctant son pressed into service as an apprentice butcher.
Over 60% annoyed with luddites at work: what type of office worker are you?
We’re all guilty of making judgements, especially in the workplace. While you’re getting to know your colleagues, it probably won’t be long before you’ve started pigeonholing them into a worker stereotype based on their email-sending and work-sharing habits.
Why understanding the baseline of accountability is essential to business success
Whether you are the CEO of the company, or someone elsewhere on the totem pole, your role matters. There are various functions that each member of the team, as well as your customers, should be able to count on you to provide. Everyone is expected to deliver on their responsibilities and come through on promises and commitments made.
5 business lessons learned from scary movies
Halloween is the perfect time of year to curl up under the blankets on the sofa and watch scary movies under the flickering glow of a creepy pumpkin lantern. But did you know that there are plenty of great business lessons that you can learn from cinema’s spookiest horror films – provided you can muster the courage to look at the screen?
Bad habits and behaviours thats stop people finding success
You know the habits of highly effective people? These people basically do the opposite.
Counteracting Gen Y’s digital indifference
Guillaume Desnoes, Head of European Markets at Dashlane, examines how a carefree attitude to security from young people entering the workplace is putting firms of all sizes at considerable risk
Back to the Future Day: five ways technology will change our lives in next 50 years
In 1965 NASA was working on some of the most challenging engineering, physics and computing problems known to mankind – preparing to get a man to the moon.
Creating a hub for employee health and financial wellbeing in your workplace
In his latest article for Business Matters, John Ritchie, Chief Executive of digital group risk insurer, Ellipse, discusses the changing role of SME employers in nurturing employee health and financial wellbeing.
The best leaders are constant learners
As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner — but one that likely saved his life.
Shared Economy: The Solution To London’s High Office Costs
It’s true that square foot costs are skyrocketing in London, reaching record levels this year alone along with other major markets around the world. This appears to be a huge problem for the SME community.
Workplace productivity – it’s more than decent biscuits
A recent survey suggesting free Hobnobs are really what staff want to make them happy in the office provides a great springboard for debate around workplace productivity, says Chris Moriarty, development director from the Leesman Index
Top 5 Autumn breaks
Cure your rainy day blues and tempt yourself into booking a last minute deal to these five destinations for guaranteed sun.
