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Can offshoring destroy jobs or boost the economy?

Since the global financial crisis in 2007, researchers found offshoring led to an uplift in employment for the company on its home soil.

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Change: the greatest contradiction?

EP Innovates' Chris Sheppardson makes the business case for supporting change and business reinvention.

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How finding your gamechanger can accelerate your growth

Here’s how an unexpected gamechanger can take your business to the next level.

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5 steps to make your start-up look like a global player

Grasshopper's Chris Bohlin looks at ways in which entrepreneurs can build their brand image as a global player.

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5 steps to a more equal workplace: Changing the ratio together

Avocet's Anna Leigh Kennedy outlines 5 ways ad tech companies can close the gender gap in the C-suite.

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The new industrial strategy should do justice to growth sectors, says expert

A new Industrial Strategy whitepaper explains how the government plans to build a Britain fit for the future. TIGA's Dr Richard Wilson comments.

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Is your pitch perfect? How NOT to lose business at the final hurdle

UK companies are not properly prepared for pitching and are losing business as a result. Buffalo 7 CEO, Lyndon Nicholson writes.

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4 steps to kickstart your dropshipping business

In the past, the only way to start your own business was to come up with a new product or service idea, figure out how to make it a reality, then go out and sell it to everyone you know. While this option is great for the creative types, it effectively left out everyone else who wanted to own their own business but didn’t exactly have a new idea. Fortunately, that has changed with dropshipping.

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Is your pitch perfect? How NOT to lose business at the final hurdle

UK companies are not properly prepared for pitching and are losing business as a result. Buffalo 7 CEO, Lyndon Nicholson writes.

Growth Planning

4 steps to kickstart your dropshipping business

In the past, the only way to start your own business was to come up with a new product or service idea, figure out how to make it a reality, then go out and sell it to everyone you know. While this option is great for the creative types, it effectively left out everyone else who wanted to own their own business but didn’t exactly have a new idea. Fortunately, that has changed with dropshipping.

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Profit over principles? Why we need to talk about the future of business

Business as we know it is set to change. One hundred years from now we will look back at the current UK PLC model and see things in much the same way we look at the workhouses of 150 years ago. Greg Secker believes in the near future businesses will be based on a model that balances philanthropy with profit. Bill Gates beats Ebenezer Scrooge any day of the week. In this article, the entrepreneur maps out some guiding principles that he says will shape business for the next few decades and beyond.

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Outsourced contact centres: 7 challenges and solutions

Nick Brook at Teleopti explores the challenges faced by outsourcers today and how to solve them.

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There’s more to choosing an investor than financial results

Cultural relationships are the foundation of success, says Hall Morrice Corporate Finance's Tom Faichnie.

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Simon Rogerson: An investor’s thoughts on building a business

Simon Rogerson, founder and chief executive officer of Octopus Group, explains how in the last two decades, starting a business has become both easier and much harder.