Landmark research by Hitachi Capital UK into retailers’ business decisions has found that the pressures of running bricks and mortar stores is causing an investment divide between online and high street retailers. Last week, it was reported that rising business rates – a tax of the value of a firm’s premises - would cost retailers […]
Companies with overseas investors or seeking overseas investment and which, therefore, need to present their opportunity on a multi-lingual basis should consider adopting a transcreation rather than a translation strategy for the shareholders communication and external facing financial documents. This is how Managing Director at Asian Absolute, Julie Giguere puts it, as she explains to […]
The midterm elections result that has handed control of the lower house to the Democrats is likely to trigger a US and global financial markets bounce, on relief that President Trump’s scope for waging trade wars will be limited by a divided Congress. But gridlock in Washington will stall the White House’s bid to deregulate banking […]
Taylor Ryan has co-founded 5 startups, and has recently started https://ArchitectureQuote.com - a Saas platform to disrupt the tendering process in the Architecture Industry. He also created a Growth-Hacking Agency, https://KlintMarketing.com to support it as the platform scales, and has published several marketing e-books. He considers himself a mentor, startup junkie, technical marketer, and growth hacker. As […]
New research has revealed the downtime habits of successful business people, according to their Instagram feeds. The analysis, which was conducted by branding experts Discount Displays, looked at how a number of successful people in business spent their downtime via their Instagram updates. The results showed the most common habits of successful business people to […]
Assetz Capital investors claim that the Bank of England’s increased interest rate will have no impact on the economy in the near future, according to new data from the Q3 Investor Barometer. The peer-to-peer business lender surveys its 29,000-strong investor community every quarter to determine their thoughts and predictions for the health of the UK […]
From programming and AI to data and analysis, nanodegrees are often the simple solution to short-term development and learning; especially when part time degrees or longer-term learning is not an option. Below Brian Hickey at Udacity offers some insight into this increasingly used educational model. The UK economy is facing significant cross-industry talent shortages, and […]
In recent news it was announced Paul Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates, died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a disease that had already divided the Microsoft partnership many years ago. Below CEO Today looks at five of the greatest co-founding partnerships that made history and are now divided by means of death or […]
Leadership, especially in an incredibly fast-paced digital world where there are disruptions coming from every direction, is tough. Whether you are a long-established CEO or COO grappling with the changes digital technology is bringing to your industry, or a newly appointed Chief Data or Digital Officer getting to grips with joining the C-Suite, it takes […]
Innovation is not a word that should be used frivolously. However, in recent years it has become a throwaway term that is frequently applied in reference to a product, act, or outcome. Few people use innovation to describe a continuous cycle or collective – a culture. In my experience, innovation as a culture is a […]
Dr David West is the Founder and Medical Director of Veincentre, the UK’s first nationwide, doctor-led business which focuses solely on the safe and effective removal of varicose veins—a condition affecting one in three adults around the world. The company was founded in 2003 by Dr West and his wife Deborah, who runs the day-to-day administration. Originally […]
Emelita Robbins is the CEO of Jersey Hospice Care, the island's only hospice and the largest independent charitable provider of healthcare services in the Channel Islands. The charity has a strategic leadership role in the delivery of end-of-life care across Jersey and provides education to all healthcare providers in this area. Jersey Hospice Care supports […]
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