Family businesses are emerging from the coronavirus crisis stronger than they were predicting three months ago, finds new research from RSM and Nyenrode Business University.

The researchers surveyed family businesses in April earlier this year, asking how they thought their revenue, employee numbers, and profitability would be affected by the pandemic. They repeated the survey among the exact sam...

Data Centre Pricing (DCP), the specialists in Data Centres, has launched ‘The Cloud and Data Centre Revolution in Africa’ report, covering 26 countries across the continent and their DC activities.

DCP has identified that half of the countries in Africa have now launched third-party Data Centre facilities, with total African Data Centre space and power being equivalent to markets in Spain or Swi...

COVID-19 puts smart workforce collaboration, records integration and data processing at the heart of public service.

18% of respondents log into 20 or more systems daily; 26% say their information search facility is ‘not at all intuitive’; 35% feel they ‘lack the right tools to find information efficiently’.

SynApps Solutions, the enterprise content management and process automation specialist, ...

Manufacturing, one of the first sectors to initiate recovery, looks to upgrade ERP systems

Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, has announced results from its ERP Innovator’s Dilemma report, which finds manufacturers investing in modernising legacy ERP systems. It finds upgrading the complex systems at the root of manufacturing operations reduces “keep the lights on” spending to just 35%. This ha...

The dominance of petroleum-centric capitalism and its huge contribution to the climate emergency have raised questions about how companies in the Middle East and North Africa can shape sustainable development agendas. New research from Trinity Business School has uncovered how CSR practices are affected by unique environments in this misunderstood part of the world, and that firms need to understa...

54% of accountants have said that cashflow forecasting has become the number one priority for their SME clients due to the impact of COVID-19, ahead of business planning, credit control and bookkeeping.

In a ‘Future of Cashflow’ survey commissioned by Fluidly, more than 200 accountancy firms with tens of thousands of SMEs on their books shared their insights. Prior to COVID-19, cashflow manageme...

The seventh edition of the Impact Assessment Outlook Journal: ‘Demystifying Cumulative Effects’ provides a series of thought pieces on the consideration of cumulative effects in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). This supports our advocacy for high standards in EIA as a means for local communities and decision-makers to understand the potential environmental effects of new developments.

‘As w...

Against the backdrop of the risk of a second wave, staggering losses for business and rapidly increasing government deficits, the wisdom of shutting down large parts of the economy is now being scrutinised, as is the support for affected businesses. New research from Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), however, shows that shutting down business activity to combat COVID-19 is very effective, espe...

Following the publication of further details on the points-based immigration system, which were made available on July 13th, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has expressed disappointment at the lack of detail around highly skilled professionals.

Commenting on the document, Tania Bowers, legal Counsel and Head of Public Policy, noted: “It is no secret that there are skill...