Lord Livingston recently pledged that he would help create a ‘Brit-elstand’ - a UK equivalent to medium sized export companies known as the Mittlestand, that form the backbone of the German economy.
Organisations working across cultures have many issues to consider that may not be necessary within a single market, where language, buying motivations and marketing campaigns are all well understood.
When the term “innovation” is used, it is often mixed up with “invention”. While an invention is typically linked to R&D, the term “innovation” is about marketing and sales, says Dr Michael Scholl.
For years, the visual representation of the working environment has always been an office. To many, this is still the case. While the physical office space has its advantages, times are changing and nowadays technology allows us to run entire businesses from a computer.
From globalisation to social media and content, here are this year's top business trends that will help you stay ahead of the game and boost your company's profits.
The separation between public service procurement and the private sector is at an all-time high, says David Cliff.
In the past few decades, English has become the most widespread language spoken by people whose mother tongue is another language. French, the language of diplomacy and often described as the language of the educated and cultured, has not kept pace, especially as the United States has dominated much of global business. Although there are more native speakers of some Chinese and Indian languages, historically, they have not been learnt by many outsiders.
We are essentially "blind visionaries" with the ability to envision an idea others couldn’t see whilst being blind to some of the risks that would usually put off everyone else.
Understand their life-span and incentives can be incredibly powerful. Get them wrong, and they can be painfully destructive, argues Tomasz Obloj, professor of strategy at HEC Paris.
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