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.

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.

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.

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.

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.