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We interact with brilliant design every day, often without even realising it. From the sleek storage solutions in our homes, to the bicycles we ride and the software that powers our work, great design quietly shapes how we move through the world.
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Didier Sibellas
19.11.2024
If your business is struggling to exit, or to raise capital, you are not alone. Rising interest rates have led to a considerable slowdown in deal-making for private equity-backed businesses over the last two years; testing the nerves of many leaders.
18.11.2024
As the world looks to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to advance the policies needed to deliver deep, rapid and sustained emission reductions to limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, finance is set to be a central focus. This “Finance COP” (as it has been dubbed) looks to establish a new framework aimed at closing the persistent gaps in climate finance, and will also be an opportunity to have critical discussions on the role of financial institutions in accelerating climate action.
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Majda Dabaghi
15.11.2024
As businesses across the UK adapt to rapid technological advancements, electronic invoicing and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged as pivotal tools in streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency. David Malan, Sales Director for DocuWare in the UK and Ireland, shares his insights on how these technologies are transforming the industry.
14.11.2024
Reshaping corporate culture requires visionary leadership and a strong commitment to long-term success. I have led transformational change at companies including Porsche and BMW, as well as in early-stage and growing companies. It is clear to me that effective leadership begins by creating an environment that encourages challenge and autonomy while supporting personal and professional growth.
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Kevin Gaskell
13.11.2024
Unstructured data, while complex to organise, plays a crucial and complementary role to structured data in private equity investments. It enables more informed decisions and better anticipation of trends through the use of advanced data extraction and analysis tools and technologies.
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Alexandre Velluti
05.11.2024
During the Covid-19 pandemic, our society advanced by decades in a matter of months. Overnight, our societal definition of ‘normal’ was replaced with working and learning from home.
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Leanne Maskell
04.11.2024
Picture this: it’s 2024 and everyone decides it’s time to fire 20% more women than men. There would be uproar, right? How about this: it’s 2024 and we’re passively watching as Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens to disproportionately displace women in the workforce.
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Fernanda Dobal
31.10.2024
One of the fundamental requirements for growing a business is a willingness to change. But this requirement has become even more acute over the past years. We are currently in the biggest election year in history, with more voters than ever heading to the polls across the globe.
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Nick Horan
30.10.2024
Investors, particularly private equity (PE) firms, are undergoing a period of transformation driven by increasing use of data and AI to better understand their portfolios, enhance value creation and identify investment and acquisition targets. Naturally, this transition has important implications for startups seeking to attract new investment or maximise the value of their exit.
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Natalie Cramp
23.10.2024
When an AI-driven future arrives faster than ever, Terence Mauri, a world-leading expert on the future of leadership and Thinkers50 author, argues that we always overestimate the risk of trying something new and underestimate the risk of standing still.
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Terence Mauri
21.10.2024
ESG principles have gained significant traction in recent years, but the conversation surrounding them continues to be clouded in misunderstanding. The prevailing notion that “starting with anything that looks like sustainability” will suffice has led startups and investors astray.
17.10.2024
The UK financial sector is embracing a transformative challenge: carbon accounting. As sustainability reporting evolves from a voluntary exercise to a regulatory imperative, financial institutions are seizing the opportunity to streamline their approach to measuring, reporting and managing their carbon footprint.
16.10.2024
If AI is on your mind, you are not alone. Business leaders say repercussions of using AI technology incorrectly keeps them up at night, with two-thirds of executives reporting that their key concern is financial consequences, according to recent research from G-P.
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Nat Natarajan
09.10.2024
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