Traditionally, the expertise sought in the Non-Executive and Senior Business Advisory team is still mostly based around traditional skills of Finance, Marketing, Regulatory and Legal, SME, and Organisational Development. The value of data skills and its power to open up new businesses is still not fully understood and appreciated at the most senior level. While ‘Data Monetization’ is a term…
No man is an island. It’s a well-known phrase, but one that many people fail to take on board. Especially in business. Business owners, boards and decision makers too often try to take on too much themselves. They don’t appreciate how helpful – and how easy – it can be to bring outside expertise into a company. Family businesses, scale-ups…
There is a lot of complexity to the world of business. With a few notable exceptions, however, the vast majority of firms have the same simple aim. That is to make as much profit as possible and thus to grow and develop. As any GCSE business studies student will tell you, a firm’s profits are what’s left of their turnover…
