Adaptive Insights, the only pure-play cloud vendor to be named a leader in strategic cloud corporate performance management (CPM), releases its global CFO Indicator report, which explores the pace of finance, its impact on agility, and what CFOs need to do to shorten their organisations’ time to decisions. Alarmingly, 77 per cent of CFOs admit that major
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Should I stay or should I go? 2017 a summer of staycations after Brexit
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As the late May Bank Holiday approaches, research from Rakuten Marketing and Centre for Retail Research today reveals nearly one in four (24 per cent) consumers admit they are changing their intended travel plans this summer as a result of Brexit. More than a third of people are choosing cheaper destinations (37 per cent), a third are reducing
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Stand in line: Improve your checkouts or lose your customer loyalty
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Competition is fierce and customer loyalty is fleeting at best so when it comes to retail stores, the customer experience is more important than ever. But according to the findings of research issued by Qmatic UK Ltd, the British are expecting more when it comes to the checkout customer journey in-store. At the forefront of this
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Half of Brits fear they have been a victim of a cyberattack
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More than half of the UK fears their personal information has been compromised from a cyberattack. New research from Experian finds that 54 per cent of people believe they have been the target of fraudulent activity online – up from 39 per cent on last year’s figures. Experian’s third annual data breach preparedness survey reveals · A
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Less than one in five UK managers support hard Brexit
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In advance of the general election, UK managers have made clear what they want to see from a new government. With Brexit on the horizon, just one in five (19 per cent) managers favour a so-called hard Brexit, according to new research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Of the 801 UK managers surveyed by
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Does the Tory manifesto do enough to help UK SMEs?
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Are the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme set for a makeover? If the Conservative’s election manifesto is to be believed, they might be. The document says the party is considering further incentives under the ‘world-leading’ (hear hear!) schemes, though, tantalisingly, does not hint much at their nature, beyond suggesting that they may
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Workplace apathy is causing UK workers to look for a new job
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Boredom can affect even the most studious of workers, and worrying new statistics from CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent job board, reveal that boredom afflicts nearly half of UK workers (44.9 per cent) and 54 per cent admit that they have looked for a new job as a result of a dull work life. The
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Working from home can be a pain in the neck
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People working from home are more likely to suffer from work-related injuries such as neck and back problems, according to new research from Bupa. The findings reveal that more than half of home-workers (51 per cent) have sustained injuries, aches and pains as a result of their working environment, which is ten per cent more
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Exporter confidence remains high, but exchange rates a concern
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The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), in partnership with DHL, publishes its latest Quarterly International Trade Outlook, which shows that confidence among UK exporters remains strong. The number of businesses reporting improved export sales increased in the first quarter of 2017. Businesses in both manufacturing and services are also more confident that their turnover and
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UK workers say they don’t need to be in an office to be productive
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Eight out of ten workers do not think they need to be in an office to be productive and 85 per cent want the opportunity to work from home, according to research from business communications company Fuze. The survey of 6,600 workers in the UK, Australia, Europe and North America, highlights significant demand for working away from
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