The news that O2 is introducing artificial intelligence to its customer helpline is just another example of the move from people-based...

Reports of a proposed US border-adjustment tax, which aims to tax imports but offer a rebate for exports, have affected the share prices...

The UK PLC market is going "under the hammer" due to the fall in sterling and relatively liberal takeover rules in the UK. A government...

As GM looks to sell its European operations to PSA, the UK government is between a rock and hard place as overseas companies look to...

Leaving aside the apparent misjudgement by Kraft in approaching Unilever and then withdrawing back to their bunkers, the reaction to the...

The Kraft /Unilever 48 hour excitement following the Reckitt/Mead Johnson deal illustrates mega deals, especially in the consumer sector,...

Fidelity's suggestion that there will be an annual binding vote on individual director's pay further raises the heat on the remuneration...

Whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or biscuit has been an interesting debate for years. What this tells us about our language vs. our...

John Williams' opinion piece sums up well the issues associated with turning the UK government's green paper on industrial strategy into...

Today's naming and shaming by Government of 359 businesses who have failed to pay either the National Minimum Wage or National Living...

OEM’s, component suppliers and many third parties are looking to use data to offer a wide range of personalised services to the users of...

The UK governments green paper is a welcome initiative setting manufacturing at the heart of government thinking and it is vital that the...

It should come as no surprise that the German equivalent of the CBI, the BDI, is suggesting there needs to be closer liaison between...

EU lawmakers have warned that transitional arrangements may not be permitted under current EU laws, raising the prospect of a Brexit...

It comes as no surprise that Dyson has identified Singapore as its location for its R&D hub. Singapore has for years developed its...

The fact that UK companies are revisiting performance plans comes from disquiet at institutions that the plans in place are too short...

The recent Egon Zehnder report shows there is still much to be done on diversity on boards but the recent ISS report is the more telling.

In a move that is akin to Trump's America First policy, McLaren have announced a significant investment in Sheffield, but if you dig...

As news like this comes around, I find myself wondering how history will view current strategies a few years down the line.  As I see it,...

During my visit to India this week there has been a lot of talk about the implementation of the General & Services Tax (GST) and when it...

While the Trump administration published interim guidance across the pond to clarify a recent executive order that calls for agencies to...

When I was in college, a biology professor refused to allow students to record his lectures. (This is back when dinosaurs roamed the...

There are layers of proposed changes to housing delivery identified in the White Paper and much of it is focused on addressing some...

In the decade leading up to 2014, the number of budget hotels in China went from 500 to more than 16,000. Budget hotel operators in China...

While there are reservations about decreasing the green belt, there do not appear to be too many dissenters to the idea that we, as a...

2017 is going to be the year of the shareholders challenging directors pay.

We have already seen open challenges to severance payments...

While President Trump may be shunning attending "traditional events" in Washington a new standing agenda item for every board should be...

In an interesting speech on Innovation, Chairman of the CMA David Currie raises the question of whether algorithms can cause competition...

The G20 clamp down on base erosion and profit sharing, as well as the new US administration's anticipated tax proposal on repatriation of...

In yet another study on discrimination in recruitment, identical applications with different names had starkly different success rates. A...

London produces 1/5th of UK GDP and 1/3 of UK tax revenue. The UK is a snooker table with too many balls in its south-east corner. This...

Rate rises are coming. They could wreck the UK's retail and small business economy. In London alone business rates will rise by over £9...

The White Paper is predicted to land next Tuesday and already the ground is being set for publication.

The Telegraph on Thursday rather...

The European Commission has launched three investigations into suspected breach of the competition rules by companies in the consumer...

Hearing about this young man making allegations against his school is a stark reminder of how easy it can be to say or do the wrong thing...

The recent National Audit Office report projections suggest that there will be at least 227,000 new households formed each year between...

Never buy a lease, my grandad said. He was right. Of course, sometimes you have to do it. Most flats are structured as leases, because UK...

A key issue on trade - leaving aside tariffs is how in practise goods will move. If we think ports are clogged up now by hauliers what...

The pros and cons of job-hopping are often discussed in recruitment and HR circles. Changing employers can certainly keep employees up to...

The U.K. is hungry for affordable housing. U.K. home ownership is down to 63% from 69% in 2000. That's the fourth lowest in the EU. 11...

If we're going to honest, really honest, the construction industry is not often seen as the poster child of innovation. Asked to describe...

The announcement that the Swedish industrial, Atlas Copco is spilting into two is just the latest in an industrial trend that has grown...

The Finance Minister of India (“FM") presented the Finance Bill, 2017 ("Union Budget") in Parliament. In his Budget Speech, the FM has...

Gordon Brown said he'd abolished the economic cycle. Whatever happened to him? The cycle drags politicians and their plans up and down....

The Policing and Crime Bill has now received Royal Assent, meaning thousands of gay and bisexual men may be pardoned for previous...