If you’re thinking about investing in a new website for your business, there’s more to pay for than just its design. Read on if you don’t want to get surprised by ‘hidden’ website costs and if you want to find out how you can make sure your website remains an asset to your business for as long as possible.
Gary Cattermole is a Director of leading staff survey provider, The Survey Initiative, and is also an expert in employee engagement. Here he examines how to get to the heart of how employees think…
We talk to Paul Swinton about his inspirations in business and find out what he would have done differently given the chance.
As a race we are the product of millions of years of evolution which has an impact upon our present day behaviour. When we are sitting in our air conditioned buildings or our cold and draughty workshops, when we are using the latest information technology kit to say in touch with each other, the gradual adaptive change over millions of years can often be forgotten.
The Prime Minister has announced the businesses involved in the second phase of the successful Apprenticeship Trailblazer programme, who will be designing new world-class Apprenticeship standards for their sectors.
New statistics have revealed more than £1,700 per hour is being raised via crowdfunding in the UK.
A survey of almost 3,000 workers undertaken by The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) last year showed that most employees favour a common-sense style of leadership to engender and create a climate of trust.
We talk to Kevin Edwards about his inspirations in business and find out what he would have done differently given the chance.
No manager or business owner wants to face the reality of redundancy, but there are times when there is simply no alternative. Companies face extinction if they can’t balance their books – particularly in the current economic climate. Because the biggest cost incurred by most companies is labour, redundancies are an unavoidable part of modern business.
Over half of UK businesses say that they are ‘quite confident’ or’ very confident’ about growth for the year ahead when compared to 2013 – according to a study from The National Business Awards.
Eleven local micro brewers are set to begin UK Trade & Investment’s (UKTI) award winning Passport to Export scheme this month in the hope of getting the skills they need to target the globe with their specialist brews.
Nearly 80 per cent of startups struggle to find the right talent, with over forty per cent citing staff issues as the reason for failure, according to new research fromStartup Institute, the career accelerator.
Most companies know that the simplest way to expand your brand is to widen the range of products and services you offer. Businesses have been employing this tactic for years, expanding beyond their core product range in order to secure the business they know their customers will otherwise take elsewhere. Hairdressers offer cosmetic treatments; supermarkets stock everything from clothes to furniture; and when was the last time you saw a garden centre that just sold plants?
J Crew, the American fashion retailer beloved by Michelle Obama and actress Katie Holmes, could be sold to the Japanese clothing giant behind Uniqlo for between $4.5bn and $5bn (£3bn).
The UK’s leading business group expects robust growth this year and next but warned of the need to rebalance away from consumption to secure a sustainable recovery.
