BUSINESS

Working from home – the new normal?

Working from home – the new normal?

How we made working from home work for us By Charlotte Nichols, managing director of PR agency Harvey & Hugo As a PR agency, we ha..

How to set up your first-ever business (without the stress)

How to set up your first-ever business (without the stress)

Let’s face it: saying that 2020 has been a disruptive year is, if anything, an understatement. But for some, that shift has actually b..

How to be your own boss when you’ve never done it before

How to be your own boss when you’ve never done it before

One of the strangest parts about being your own boss is that there’s no one to hold you accountable for your personal and professional..

It’s Time for a Branding re-set – Getting Back to Basics

It’s Time for a Branding re-set – Getting Back to Basics

By Gayle Carpenter, Director of creative agency, Sparkloop  The Christmas ads are now a distant memory but what we learned from the 20..

Remote Work is Here to Stay – Is it Good, Though?

Remote Work is Here to Stay – Is it Good, Though?

By Mohit Tater, Founder & CEO – BlackBook Investments Did you ever imagine that your couch will be your office chair, the on..

Working from home, everyone is different.

Working from home, everyone is different.

By Joanna, an accredited and qualified Health Coach specializing in working with clients and businesses to protect from the negative a..

How to make working from home work for you

How to make working from home work for you

By Nelson Furtado, Senior Business Phycologist at The Chemistry Group Almost a year ago now, Covid 19 sent much of the workforce to w..

Finding New Pathways to efficiency in a Hybrid Workplace

Finding New Pathways to efficiency in a Hybrid Workplace

By Mohit Joshi, President, Infosys Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit us, flexible working arrangements existed but were not commonly pr..

Insuring the industry with predict and prevent

Insuring the industry with predict and prevent

By Manan Sagar, CTO for Insurance at Fujitsu Deep down at the bottom of the ocean are devices that measure pressure. So if a tectonic ..

Companies should heed the wellbeing lessons of lockdown

Companies should heed the wellbeing lessons of lockdown

By Vicky Walker, Head of people at Westfield. Helping teams maintain the healthy habits formed while working from home during the pand..

How to protect your employees’ mental health while remote working

How to protect your employees’ mental health while remote working

By Brendan Street, Professional Head of Emotional Wellbeing, Nuffield Health According to our whitepaper – The effects of remote..

Supporting Your Employees Mental Health WFH

Supporting Your Employees Mental Health WFH

The lockdown has forced millions of people to quickly adapt to a new way of living and working in 2020, and while we adjusted quickly,..

The psychology of long-term remote working: Productivity vs. Inclusivity

The psychology of long-term remote working: Productivity vs. Inclusivity

By Stuart Duff, Head of Development at business psychologist, Pearn Kandola After an unpredictable few months, many office workers all..

COVID-19 Recovery tips for 2021

COVID-19 Recovery tips for 2021

By Thom Dennis, CEO at Serenity In Leadership There has been a huge cost to the pandemic but there has also been a lot of necessary le..

Working from home or the office – how to do it best

Working from home or the office – how to do it best

By Dr Lynda Shaw, neuroscientist, business psychologist and change specialist. For many of us Coronavirus has turned the way we work u..

Remote working tips to help IT last longer

Remote working tips to help IT last longer

By Bruce Penson, Managing Director of Pro Drive IT Here are 5 remote working tips to help your IT last longer, whether you’re at home ..

Addressing the human aspects of business transformation

Addressing the human aspects of business transformation

By Sundara Sukavanam, CDO, Firstsource While the financial services industry is no stranger to business transformation, the pandemic f..

How to make a rebrand a successful pivot

How to make a rebrand a successful pivot

By Gary Knight, WOLF CEO, explains what to consider and the questions to ask The thing with rebranding is, it has to be done very well..

How Buying Your Business Premises Can Help You Hit Your Long Term Financial Goals

How Buying Your Business Premises Can Help You Hit Your Long Term Financial Goals

By Gary Hemming, Commercial Lending Director As your business grows, the decision to take on larger premises can seem like a big step...

Is compliance to PSD2’s SCA a bridge too far for B2B merchants?

Is compliance to PSD2’s SCA a bridge too far for B2B merchants?

By Pat Bermingham, CEO, Adflex According to the European Central Bank, 79% of all card fraud in 2018 occurred online from Card Not Pre..

Mark Wright – Apprentice Winner NOT TOWIE

Mark Wright – Apprentice Winner NOT TOWIE

With the beauty of hindsight, would you have still auditioned for BBC’s The Apprentice to launch Climb Online? When growing up, I alwa..

Know Your Customer – let’s make this easy

Know Your Customer – let’s make this easy

By James Adie, VP of Sales, EMEA, Ephesoft If you work in the financial services sector, you’ll know that a customer’s decision to ch..

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch – a series of online discussions focusing o..

2021 Predictions: Operational Resilience Takes Center Stage

2021 Predictions: Operational Resilience Takes Center Stage

Breaking down barriers between Risk and Business Continuity By Brian Molk, Fusion Risk Management What a year! Simply put, the global ..

Allianz Benelux Taps into Modern Data Management to Combat Fraud and Foster a Positive Customer Experience

Allianz Benelux Taps into Modern Data Management to Combat Fraud and Foster a Positive Customer Experience

Data expert Amy Hodler examines how one of the world’s largest financial services companies has successfully employed graph technology..

Get Britain building again’, UK’s Labour sets out growth plan

Get Britain building again’, UK’s Labour sets out growth plan

By Gabe McGloin, Head of Business Development EMEA at Verifi 2020 has been an unprecedented and testing year for many businesses, cons..

Explainer-Paris freaks out over bedbugs ahead of Olympic Games

Explainer-Paris freaks out over bedbugs ahead of Olympic Games

By Harel Tayeb, CEO of Kryon Systems. It’s difficult to imagine a more tumultuous year than 2020. The pandemic crisis that wreaked hav..

Securing a new era of collaboration in financial services

Securing a new era of collaboration in financial services

By Dave Henderson, Co-founder at BlueFort Security Kitchen table trading is a notion that would have seemed laughable to many financi..

2021: The Year of the Global Workforce for British small businesses 

2021: The Year of the Global Workforce for British small businesses 

Borderless talent & people management will be in play in a post-COVID world UK small businesses can start recruiting and managin..

How a British brand catered to HNWIs can maintain its position within the global luxury sphere, and even grow, in these current circumstances

How a British brand catered to HNWIs can maintain its position within the global luxury sphere, and even grow, in these current circumstances

By James Pawle, Chairman of Signature Staff We are witnessing a very interesting time for the luxury goods and services sector as a wh..

Could AI hold the key to business recovery?

Could AI hold the key to business recovery?

By Xavier Fernandes, Analytics Director at Metapraxis, the financial analytics firm 2020 has been an unpredictable year, bringing vola..

Boardroom superheroes: How the CMO and CFO can become a dynamic duo

Boardroom superheroes: How the CMO and CFO can become a dynamic duo

By Aaron Goldman, CMO, Mediaocean Every business leader knows that 2020 was a real test of organisational resilience. Almost overnight..

The valuable role Ecommerce/Social Media marketing will play in keeping businesses afloat during lockdown

The valuable role Ecommerce/Social Media marketing will play in keeping businesses afloat during lockdown

By Tim Hyde, Founder and Director of Social Media Marketing Agency, TWH Media  Most businesses have a website. Fact. But what role doe..

Compliance Is Key In The Work-From-Home Environment

Compliance Is Key In The Work-From-Home Environment

By Achi Lewis, EMEA Director, NetMotion Compliance is integral to any professional services organisation. Whether you are a legal firm..

How businesses can effectively pivot marketing game plans for Christmas 2020

How businesses can effectively pivot marketing game plans for Christmas 2020

By Bradley Fagan, Senior Market Insights Expert, Uberall Now is the time of year for Christmas adverts to grace our screens, but many ..

5 Simple ways to prevent a data breach from putting your accountancy practice out of business

5 Simple ways to prevent a data breach from putting your accountancy practice out of business

By Bruce Penson, Managing Director at Pro Drive IT As an accountancy firm, you hold a huge amount of confidential and sensitive infor..

Netting is a privilege not a right

Netting is a privilege not a right

It is nearly a year since the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced its new process for the recognition of netting agreements for ris..