Christmas parties – beware!
If you’re planning to organise some Christmas festivities for your employees, thinking about some of the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them is a good idea.
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Operations & resources
Five steps to boosting productivity
We know that productivity is a key driver of economic growth and improved standards of living, so how do we tackle this? Before I hear screaming. this is not a ‘kick the UK’ approach. But productivity is closely linked to both good performance and efficiency.
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Five simple, but crucial controls to protect your business
Keeping businesses safe from cyber threats is becoming more and more important as smaller businesses are being targeted due to them being an easy target as they more often than not ignore cyber security thinking data breaches will never happen to them.
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Is GDPR going away?
With data now being worth more than oil and gold and cyber criminals seeing data theft as an easy way to make money, we will continue to need some sort of regulation governing its use.
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How operationally efficient are you?
Efficiency is concerned with minimising waste or effort, whilst still delivering an effective outcome. Or more broadly managing systems and resources to deliver a product with minimum waste.
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Can I sell my business without a solicitor?
Are you thinking about selling your business? Even if you’ve done it a hundred times before, there’s a number of very good reasons why you should probably use a solicitor to sell your business.
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Say goodbye to your spreadsheets
You want to migrate your business data from Excel or Google Sheets into a brand, spanking new database. You’re unsure how to do it, so what do you need to do?
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How to deal with a data breach
A breach is any event or action, whether that be accidental or deliberate, which presents a threat to the security, integrity, confidentiality of availability of data.
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How are you going to get your business through tough times?
Most entrepreneurs are busy people and there are only twenty-four hours in a day. To get a business going, you need to cover many angles, the problem is… many of those will not play to your natural strengths as a businessperson.
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Has there ever been a better time to ditch the password?
Password keys are unique digital keys that are easy to use, more secure, never stored on a web server and stay on your device and hackers can’t steal passkeys in a data breach or trick users into sharing them.
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Five ways to improve your cyber security
Most business owners hear ‘cyber’ and say things like “It’s too technical for me” or “I just don’t understand the terminology”. This easy-to-understand guide is going to transform your business, by giving you the knowledge to make your business safer.
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How to select a process for automation
When you start considering automation, the first challenge is to identify candidate processes that are suitable for automation. The challenge is knowing which processes are the right ones to automate.
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A passwordless society – stronger, better and simpler
Passwordless authentication is the answer in this year of identity management, to ensure access to data is from users who are who they purport to be.
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Do sweat the small stuff – why little details matter in your terms and conditions
Your Ts and Cs are about setting the terms of business so you don’t need to argue them later. They are the details of how you and your client intend to conduct your business transactions.
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Model form articles: is it time for a review?
If you’ve already set up a limited company, you’ll probably have a dim and distant memory of some of the documents required. People often talk about ‘mem and arts’.
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Five key things to consider when starting and growing your business
The stark reality is that starting a business isn’t as simple as it may seem and a massive 60% will fail within their first three years, with 20% not making it through the first year alone.
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Is employee retention a problem for you?
You know the cost of recruiting a new member of staff to your business, the uncertainty of the candidate actually turning up on their start date or leaving within the first few months.
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The basics of succession planning and why it’s useful
Succession planning is a useful exercise to carry out for any business. Obviously, the scale of the exercise will vary dependent on the size of the employer, but it is certainly a helpful way to future-proof any small organisation in terms of roles and skills gaps.
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What are your top 10 business risks?
Have you considered recently which risks pose the highest impact on your business? Risks will vary according to the size of your business, the nature of your business and the markets you operate in.
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Stop blaming your software! It might be you!
Before our reliance on technology, we were forced to establish and document a process for our work. Reminders and tasks had to be written down. Letters had to be sent. Phone calls had to be made.
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