Insights
NI Budget announced for 2018/19
• Additional £25 million to be raised through rates (domestic and non–domestic) • Increases/continuity for health and Education funding • £410m of DUP–Con confidence and supply deal to be released • This is a 1 year budget
Brexit Updates
Last week represented another very eventful week in the Brexit process with Theresa May setting out her vision for the ongoing Brexit process at the Mansion House in London.
How would your business cope in the face of a crisis?
Some crises are anticipated, others unlikely, and some are simply impossible to foresee.
Cocktail of people, policy and power will remain volatile in 2018
As we look ahead to new and emerging business opportunities and challenges in 2018 its worth remembering that all forecasts come with a health warning, especially where politics and economics are involved. Back 9 years ago, in the aftermath of the financial collapse of 2008 on a visit to the London School of Economics and with a second Great Depression looming, the Queen asked a simple but devastating question: why did nobody see it coming?
The Importance of Dialogue
Inclusive dialogue is so often the prerequisite for positive change
Ethics in Business
Last Wednesday a concerning statistic for the business community in the UK and Ireland emerged which didn’t directly relate to economic performance, employment, Brexit, skills availability or any other pressing issue.
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay!
It’s funny how people can get something into their head that is incorrect and no matter what conventional wisdom says or common–sense dictates, they simply cannot shift from it. A friend of mine had twins, a boy and a girl, and when she would meet people out walking when the children were young some would ask if they were identical, knowing they were separate sex twins. For whatever reason, some people associate twins with being identical only no matter what the evidence suggests.