Covid-19 pandemic has changed and disrupted all businesses. Covid-19 is also the major digital transformation accelerator, taking the digital economy to new heights. Let’s take a look at the major business challenges with covid and digital transformation and how businesses can get better prepared for the future. Covid-19 has disrupted the entire world economy. […]
Alan Donegan is an entrepreneur and education thought leader. Alan Donegan founded PopUp in 2012 with Simon Paine after they thought there must be a better way to start a business, without debt and without formal business plans. Alan decided he wanted to start PopUp to make sure that no one else went through the […]
Only 5% of HR professionals expect work to ever go back to the pre-pandemic normal 58% of HR professionals expect a large and permanent increase in remote working Demand is on the rise for connected, specialist HR software The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that it is possible for many people to work from home. Now, […]
The impact of the pandemic on businesses in facts, figures and statistic As we enter the new year, some trends seem to carry over. That includes the pandemic of 2020, which speeded up the digital transformation of many businesses and changed the way we work. Now 43% of the workforce work remotely at least some […]
Jose Graca is a serial entrepreneur and an active technologist and expert in business tech and Fintech for 20 years. In this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series, both host Dinis Guarda and guest Jose Graca go through the challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and to find the right opportunities to get off the ground. […]
Anuj Khanna is the guest in this new YouTube interview series. Anuj Khanna founder and CEO of Kashkind, a business loans marketplace. Anuj is focussed on solving the problem of making business finance easily available to SME’s by automating the entire banking ecosystem and having one universal loan application process for all lenders. Anuj Khanna […]
Global cybercrime costs will exceed $6 Trillion in the next years. From virtual bank heists to semi-open attacks from nation-states, the last couple of years has been rough on IT security, and has just been accelerated by the digitisation brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. To defend your business, multi-factor authentication and encryption are the biggest […]
· Awarded €19 million investment from Horizon 2020 · Will help European SMEs and mid-caps become highly competitive digital businesses · Set to directly create over 1,000 new high-tech EU jobs by 2025 · Will generate €1 billion in new revenues and venture capital by 2025 · Provides photonics training and ‘upskilling’ support PhotonHub Europe […]
The experts at online magazine, StartupsGeek, have reviewed data from cost of office space to average internet speed to find out which city is the best in the UK to start a business. Canterbury has been named the best city to start a business in the UK. StartupsGeek created a study looking at the best […]
· 23% of UK’s top performing businesses have been supported by local enterprise partnerships and growth hubs · Similarly, 30% of Britain’s strongest businesses have obtained external finance in the last 3 years · New findings come as part of an independent, holistic study into small business success, commissioned by Allica Bank to support British […]