Tech

How To Introduce an Effective Flexible Working Policy

January 31, 2019

Flexible working is increasingly in demand. It’s high on the list of preferred benefits for many UK workers and something CEOs keen to improve employee retention and increase engagement in 2019 should consider. Research from XpertHR revealed that almost all organisations offer some sort of flexible working arrangements, such as variable start and finish times, […]

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Key Leadership Qualities During A Transformational Period

January 31, 2019

It’s been an eventful year so far at Act-On. We’ve hired a ton of people, experienced exciting transitions, felt growing pains, and seen the benefit of dedicated teamwork as our strategies come to life and take shape with tangible progress. Of course, you need clear and meaningful strategy and business objectives to drive such a […]

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How Bill Gates Makes And Spends His Billions

January 29, 2019

Bill Gates is currently the world's second richest person with a net worth of over $93 billion. In 1975, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft and went on to create the operating system for IBM's first personal computer. Although Gates loves his luxury vehicles, he says his primary concerns are global warming […]

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5 Ways to Making Better Data Driven Decisions

January 25, 2019

Political, social and technological disruptions are set to shake up the business world more than ever over the next 12 months, putting increased pressure on the decision-making capabilities of the CEO.

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5 Quick and Simple Ways to Increase B2B Leads Via Twitter

January 22, 2019

While social media platforms form an integral element of many marketing and sales strategies, Twitter is sometimes considered to be the poor relation.

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10 Tech Trends to Watch Out for in 2019

January 4, 2019

Another year, another attempt to fathom the depths of tech trends and WTF they mean for business transformation in 2019. We’re all thinking AI and ML and AR, but then what happened to the good ol’ fashioned three-letter-acronym? SAS? CMS? AWS? Where has that third letter gone? At least we have WTF.

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India Wants to Buy. Are You Ready to Sell?

December 19, 2018

Are you in India yet? If you aren’t, you should be. India’s e-commerce growth is astonishing.

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Divestment as a Strategy for Organisational Growth

December 18, 2018

Business growth comes in many different forms. When we think of growth, we most logically think of adding things on – building a business through organic growth, acquisition or merger. But in fact, divestment is also a legitimate, in many cases necessary, and much-pursued route to growth. Practised well, it can be extremely fruitful, but […]

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How Open Data can Address World Hunger

December 18, 2018

Why the Agricultural Sector Needs to be at the Centre of Governmental Plans as we Move Swiftly Towards a Digital Economy Today, approximately 795 million people across the globe do not have access to enough food to live a healthy and sustainable life. The majority of these people live in underdeveloped countries, with Asia and […]

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Hermes UK: The Best Technology, Culture and Strategy to Lead

December 18, 2018

Martijn de Lange is the CEO of Hermes, the second largest carrier in the UK delivering more than 330 million parcels on behalf of 80% of the UK’s top retailers, including Next, ASOS, John Lewis, Arcadia Group and boohoo. Martijn was born in Holland and has lived and worked in the UK for the past […]

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Understanding the Current Flux in the Influencer Economy

December 18, 2018

Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a growing undermining of experience, knowledge and established expertise across the board - from politics to pop culture. In turn, ‘influence’ has become democratised by a proliferation of tech and we’re now drowning in data - making it nearly impossible to know what’s a reliable source of information. This is having a […]

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Why the Superyacht Industry Needs a Shake-up

December 18, 2018

Since the nineteenth century, luxury yachts have always been a cherished status symbol for the ultra-wealthy. Widely recognised as the first true superyacht, M/Y Mahroussa, built in 1865, is still in service today. Whilst M/Y Mahroussa has stayed much the same over the past 150 years, the wider superyacht industry has experienced phenomenal change. Superyachts […]

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