The pandemic acted as a medical scanner flagging up bottlenecks and weak links in businesses’ operation and the global economy. Digital technologies are delivering remedies – but may cause problems unless applied with caution
Cheap foreign exchange and remittance solutions, direct account payments, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins – these are only a few examples of how technology is increasingly removing the intermediaries from global payments. Read more inside
Visionaries see the potential of revolutionary technologies before most of us even notice that they have emerged. Pragmatists work doggedly on removing all the impediments hindering their implementation. For digital economy to succeed, both have a major role to play.
Although hybrid work offers unprecedented flexibility for the workforce, it also requires some. While employees are getting used to hybrid technologies and workflows, their leaders need to reimagine their pre-pandemic management style.
While supply chains are still grappling with the long-Covid symptoms of material scarcity and labour shortages, investors, legislators and consumers are putting enormous pressure on them to clear ever higher bars. Surely, they can raise their game – but who will bear the cost?
Having navigated the narrow straits between oblivion and lip service, the global business community is now busy writing a new rulebook from which environmentally and socially unsustainable profit-making is excluded… Read more inside
In today’s digital world we tend to see innovation as a disruptive force and forget that the objects, devices and constructions that stay with us across centuries – such as the tuning fork, the home computer or the London sewer system – also owe their success and longevity to innovators who have been adapting them to ever-changing circumstances and use cases
The role of the CFO is changing with technology providing new risks as well as opportunities and global issues including sustainability driving new strategic focus.
The pandemic, climate change and new regulations are all posing challenges to the insurance industry. However, digital technology is showing the way forward
The hectic improvisation of brands and retailers to stay afloat during the Covid crisis seems to subside into strategic thinking post-pandemic driven by product content, shelf-search and conversion metrics, as well as a desire to ensure the safety of customers in more precarious e-commerce environments. Read more inside…
Generation Z are stereotyped as oversensitive, “woke” and addicted to their phones – but like any new generation, they’re both misunderstood and underestimated by previous ones. And, by 2025, they’re forecast to make up a quarter of the workforce. Business Reporter talks to some of its members, and looks at how businesses need to adapt to harness Gen Z’s energy and passion.
Digital transformation, IoT and data-busting artificial intelligence are what make the headlines. But there are other, less technical approaches you can take to scale up your business’s performance – such as more blended approaches to work, upskilling and more personal customer interactions. Read more in the latest Business Reporter…
From overseeing the ever-growing catalogue of new risks to manage, to introducing climate change and pandemics into the financial equation, the life of today’s chief financial officer is far more than just balancing the books. Read more inside…
How Europe needs to step up to the semiconductor shortage, what the Great Depression could teach us about how to keep the global economy ticking over during Covid, and other developments in business across the world…
