Monthly Archives: January 2018

Lack of time is the single biggest barrier to innovation

Innovation – or doing things differently to achieve your mission – is a critical tool in delivering efficiencies and helping organisations stay ahead of their competition. Yet, while 76 per cent of employees agree that innovation is important to their organisational strategy, less than half (40 per cent) of those felt their organisation was doing
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The benefits of taking your documents digital

Companies waste money in many ways, from £28 billion per year in unnecessary meetings to £122 billion in ineffective training. But one of the most significant (and least frequently recognised) ways in which businesses can unnecessarily lose cash is a failure to identify and update legacy processes. All too often, organisations continue to unquestioningly use
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Companies to spend 172 hours a month simply on GDPR data searches

A significant number of EU businesses are sleepwalking towards massive penalties due to a lack of awareness of the scale of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data collection challenge. This is a central finding of a major report released today by Senzing. The research – Finding The Missing Link in GDPR Compliance – is
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How can we get businesses and investors speaking the same language?

When it comes to achieving rapid and sustainable scale, it can be a challenge for any business. Undoubtedly, investors play a vital role in helping businesses grow, so it’s important that small and medium-sized businesses understand exactly what these potential game-changers are looking for when trying to attract their attention. According to a report we
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What kind of leader are you?

When we’re asked to think of examples of good leaders, we often cast our minds to figures that were instrumental to significant changes in the world; people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Winston Churchill. But try to identify what it is that makes these people the same and you might stumble. Because the truth
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Two-thirds of employees undermine workplace safety, survey shows

Employees are unwittingly undermining workplace safety by using ‘untested’ electrical devices in the work place. Almost 70 per cent of employees admit to plugging in personal mobile phone chargers at work, according to an independent survey carried out by office power supplier CMD. The danger lies in the amount of fake phone chargers currently in
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