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Read the latest business news, insights from us and thought-leadership articles to reveal views from a different perspective.
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So, 2023 is turning into much the same as recent times. We are in the midst of a 5-quarter recession in the UK according to the OECD (though recent forecasts are more optimistic). Consumer prices rose by a marginally lower rate of 8.8% in
After 3 years of poor economic growth, households and businesses are fighting inflation. Rising prices caused by volatility in commodities and energy have driven up factory gate prices and service contract costs. Rising prices have also obfuscated the picture on the economy. Yes, that’s
So, you made it to the top but your organisation doesn’t operate as good as it could if you cloned yourself. Staff don’t take accountability. Ideas all seem to come from you. Nothing changes despite hiring a few new people. Many organisations operate on
Demand units are the new currency of B2B marketers. First it was about awareness, then about relevance. From relevance came personalisation and quality over quantity. As we headed towards a world where B2B marketers struggled to remain relevant, ABM came to the rescue. Simultaneously
For how long has your company existed? 10 years? 50 years? 200 years? It is tempting to think that there is nothing to learn from the past, with most senior leaders preferring to look forward. They prefer to rewrite the company according to their
Customer experience management (CXM or CEM) is a strategic approach to enhancing customer satisfaction, experience and engagement using people, processes, systems and partners. In short, it is what an organisation does to understand, measure and enhance the customer experience. Given the vast data lakes
At one point or another, we are fairly sure that you were rejected for a job because of ‘cultural fit’. Other times, it was because another candidate was a closer ‘fit’ to the job specification. Don’t worry, it wasn’t just you. Sometimes, you don’t
It is fair to say that not everyone looks at their finance department as the fuel in the engine (or volts in the battery). Some purely view the function as an overhead to be minimised. Others are led by finance to the extent that
The outside view is a methodology for thinking, problem-solving and prediction based on outside situations, examples and analogies. This differs from traditional thinking and approaches to problem-solving, also known as the inside view. The inside view takes a current situation or problem and seeks
Sustainability was seemingly all the rage just over a year ago. COP26 was the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow from 31st October 2021 to 13th November 2021. In the race to net zero, many countries made climate pledges and published high-level plans for
We all recognise the importance of change and maintaining a competitive advantage. Innovation leads to new ideas. Change leads to doing things better. Transformation leads to doing different things. So, with so much uncertainty in the UK and global economy, are we changing fast
It goes without saying that people who run businesses should be financially savvy. That is that they know how to make money, read an income statement and deal with investment decisions. According to the accountancy body, ICAEW, 51% of the CEOs in the FTSE