It’s safe to say the past decade hasn’t been a smooth ride for SMEs. During the first half of the 2010s, the nation was still busy recovering from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, while the last few years have been dominated by Brexit and the economic uncertainty it has brought with it.
As the dust settles on the 2019 general election, now is an ideal time to take a step back and consider how this latest turn of political events will impact UK investors.
Anyone involved in business is facing an extraordinary challenge. For decades, ‘working in business’ has been a perfectly respectable career. It says wealth creator, driver of economic prosperity that benefits all. But lately this has changed.
We’ve reached a new year and a new decade, and we’re setting new goals and new targets for 2020, most of which will be base don the evolving business and technology landscape we already began to face in 2019.
As the new year begins, many companies begin to review their policies and their employee retention – something that can prove challenging with today’s workforce who are less likely to be loyal to a business who doesn’t prioritise factors that are important to them.
When it comes to business, there’s a basic structure of how things are done. There’s your product or service, the interaction between the customer and the product, the means to acquire the service, and a means to get paid providing it.
During the course of a year, the earth turns 365 ¼ times and makes a complete circuit around the sun. A lot can happen in those 365 days, and 2019 has been no exception.
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