Monthly Archives: June 2017

Purpose, not profit, is business leaders’ key to success

A majority (73 per cent) of business leader respondents believe in the value of a strong corporate purpose, and only a minority (15 per cent) say their company’s main purpose is to maximise shareholder value, according to the EY report, How can purpose reveal a path through disruption? Mapping the journey from rhetoric to reality. Based on
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Eight in ten businesses recruit for digital transformation

Organisations are actively creating new positions to facilitate digitalisation efforts within the finance function over the next 12 months, reveals Robert Half’s report Digital transformation and the future of hiring. The majority of UK CFOs (68 per cent) reveal finance automation required for digitalisation will drive recruitment as a significant shift in skills is required. Overall,
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SMEs uncertain of Brexit impact on GDPR

A year after the UK voted to leave the European Union, new research from Webroot, the market leader in endpoint security, network security, and threat intelligence, reveals that UK small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) misunderstand the impact of Brexit on compliance to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Webroot finds that UK SMBs were unsure
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