We create alliances all the time in business. The relationship with our customers forms the very groundwork for our business. The same is true for our suppliers. Without clients and suppliers, there would be no business. We work on these relationships all the time, in an effort to build strong, long and fruitful alliances. From
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How to implement change successfully to your business travel
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Isn’t travel just a necessary cost of doing business? In a world where digital is supposed to be king are face to face meetings still relevant or required to get the deal done? Of course they are because nothing beats the power of a face-to-face meeting. Especially when people are buying into your business and
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Fifteen ways to remain productive at work
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Executives should ditch meetings, quit multitasking and learn how to delegate to remain productive in the office, experts have warned. A new list of tips and advice has been compiled by the experts at commercial property firm LondonOffices.com to encourage workers to ditch bad habits and achieve benchmark levels of productivity at work. From jazzing
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Top business tips for budding young entrepreneurs
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A recent poll commissioned by digital lifestyle brand, iCoolKid, reveals that ‘Generation Z’, (those currently aged 8 to 18, born approximately between 1995 – 2010), are more entrepreneurial and business savvy than previous generations. Generation Z make up 27 per cent of current global population, and the poll highlighted that 50 per cent of this
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Can taking a long, adventurous holiday boost productivity?
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Research has shown that UK SME leaders typically only take 14 days holiday a year, with one in eight taking no annual leave at all. A further 27 per cent claim that since becoming self-employed, they now work longer hours finding themselves ‘on duty’ for up to 13 hours a day. And it’s not just
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Doing business in 2018: Fourteen ways to win
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
When it comes to leadership and business, every day is a school day. The most successful leaders are undoubtedly the ones who focus equally on learning from their successes and their failures. But learning only has value when it leads to change. In this case, ensuring that we optimise the things that are working well
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Becoming a paperless office in 2018
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Research has found that the average UK office worker uses at least 10,000 sheets of paper each year. Beyond the significant impact on the environment this has, it can also prove costly to small businesses looking to keep overheads down. As such, many businesses are looking at adopting paperless operations. First mooted in the 1970s,
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Why businesses need to prepare for Industry 4.0
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Industry 4.0 promises to redefine the way that businesses of all sizes operate, regardless of their size or sector. The biggest firms in several industries have already been able to capitalise on the fundamental technologies of which this coming industrial revolution will consist. As dynamic and tech-savvy start-ups flood the market in almost every sector,
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What can SMEs learn from the Premier League Transfer Deadline Day
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To mark European football’s Transfer Deadline Day, Adobe Document Cloud is today reminding business of the potential long-term costs from holding on to traditional office processes. Famously a day of huge excitement in European football, the end of the January transfer habitually sees big money player moves between clubs across the region. Surprisingly however, these
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Carillion crisis proves that SMEs are on a knife edge
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The quick and public demise of Carillion has been chewed over from every angle since the developer’s compulsory liquidation a couple of weeks ago. Amidst the gloom in the aftermath of the collapse was the government and industry’s relatively rapid response to how this would impact the thousands of suppliers that were put at risk
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