Businesses of all sizes live and die through attracting and retaining the right people. This is no more pertinently the case than with small businesses, where the impact of an individual hire is typically greater than at a larger organisation.
Ahead of the London mayoral election on 5 May 2016, the five leading candidates fighting to replace Boris Johnson assembled at Here East to reveal how they plan to transform tech and digital services in the British capital for the benefit of businesses.
By Andrew Moore
I was helpfully reminded the other day that recessions run in ten-year cycles and that, in theory, we are closer to the next recession than we are to the last. So as we enter 2016, we could be only a couple of years away from another trigger, as when financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2008.
Connectivity, venture capital, diversity, community and more – we take an in-depth look at the various factors and accomplishments that make London deserving of the “business capital of Europe” label.
Legal expert Melanie Wadsworth uses the example of one of the UK’s oldest construction companies to examine what family businesses should consider if looking to float and how it is possible to maintain unique family business characteristics whilst still answering to shareholders.
Will Lovegrove, CEO at pensionsync, looks at why a constant dialogue with your customers is “the” key to a successful business.
By David Meyer
Lawyers have been increasingly liberated from their desks thanks to digital software, with convenience and affordability the main benefits, but security management was named as the biggest challenge facing legal IT departments – especially in small and medium-sized practices.
European bank share prices have been under significant pressure, with weak investor sentiment being accentuated by the Bank of Japan’s decision to apply negative interest rates on excess reserves.
Even for medium-sized firms that have the luxury of a dedicated personnel department, one of the things that keeps entrepreneurs awake at night is how they can maintain a workforce that delivers on their vision for the enterprise.
As WhatsApp reaches the one billion user mark and even outperforms Facebook Messenger, it becomes apparent that new apps provide an additional and critical portal to transform the user experience.
