Flexible working is increasingly in demand. It’s high on the list of preferred benefits for many UK workers and something CEOs keen to improve employee retention and increase engagement in 2019 should consider. Research from XpertHR revealed that almost all organisations offer some sort of flexible working arrangements, such as variable start and finish times, […]
It’s been an eventful year so far at Act-On. We’ve hired a ton of people, experienced exciting transitions, felt growing pains, and seen the benefit of dedicated teamwork as our strategies come to life and take shape with tangible progress. Of course, you need clear and meaningful strategy and business objectives to drive such a […]
Bill Gates is currently the world's second richest person with a net worth of over $93 billion. In 1975, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft and went on to create the operating system for IBM's first personal computer. Although Gates loves his luxury vehicles, he says his primary concerns are global warming […]
Political, social and technological disruptions are set to shake up the business world more than ever over the next 12 months, putting increased pressure on the decision-making capabilities of the CEO.
Another year, another attempt to fathom the depths of tech trends and WTF they mean for business transformation in 2019. We’re all thinking AI and ML and AR, but then what happened to the good ol’ fashioned three-letter-acronym? SAS? CMS? AWS? Where has that third letter gone? At least we have WTF.
Business growth comes in many different forms. When we think of growth, we most logically think of adding things on – building a business through organic growth, acquisition or merger. But in fact, divestment is also a legitimate, in many cases necessary, and much-pursued route to growth. Practised well, it can be extremely fruitful, but […]
Why the Agricultural Sector Needs to be at the Centre of Governmental Plans as we Move Swiftly Towards a Digital Economy Today, approximately 795 million people across the globe do not have access to enough food to live a healthy and sustainable life. The majority of these people live in underdeveloped countries, with Asia and […]
Martijn de Lange is the CEO of Hermes, the second largest carrier in the UK delivering more than 330 million parcels on behalf of 80% of the UK’s top retailers, including Next, ASOS, John Lewis, Arcadia Group and boohoo. Martijn was born in Holland and has lived and worked in the UK for the past […]
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a growing undermining of experience, knowledge and established expertise across the board - from politics to pop culture. In turn, ‘influence’ has become democratised by a proliferation of tech and we’re now drowning in data - making it nearly impossible to know what’s a reliable source of information. This is having a […]
Since the nineteenth century, luxury yachts have always been a cherished status symbol for the ultra-wealthy. Widely recognised as the first true superyacht, M/Y Mahroussa, built in 1865, is still in service today. Whilst M/Y Mahroussa has stayed much the same over the past 150 years, the wider superyacht industry has experienced phenomenal change. Superyachts […]
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