Competition helps to build the soft skills required to succeed at work. However, research from Find a Future found that competition is lacking when it comes to school agendas.
Patrick McGillycuddy, the head of fleet at Skoda, jumped into the driver's seat and talked to us about the journey so far, the road ahead and its “Simply Clever” approach to business.
The government has begun to offload its shares in part-nationalised lender Royal Bank of Scotland. However, chancellor George Osborne has been accused of getting the timing wrong.
The CBI’s annual “Sterling Assets” report, which was launched on president Barack Obama’s 54th birthday, affirmed that the UK was America's largest foreign investor.
While the weather may have cooled, sales in the UK's shopping centres have started to heat up with the arrival of the summer holidays.
Bridgepoint Development Capital – the owner of restaurant chains ASK Italian and Zizzi – has acquired Tastecard and Gourmet Society, which provides it with access to 4m British food lovers.
While young entrepreneur Lewis Howard doesn’t believe the plumbing sector has changed much since he was first exposed to it 15 years ago, that doesn’t mean he thinks the space isn’t able to be disrupted – something he intends to do with his business C&J Heating & Plumbing.
It seems trite for one to say that advertising since the turn of the century has changed. From the emergence of the laptop to the proliferation of mobile, the changes from the old disruptive methods of marketing seem completely evident.
Whether you’re an early-stage business builder or established entrepreneur looking to take the business to the next level, governance forms an important part of daily operations – but is something to be done expediently and conclusively by leveraging new techniques. Real Business meets those who have implemented vital time-saving strategies to create a new technology-led way of addressing key factors such as accounting and ordering.
