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Tomorrow's world: looking to 2016

The IT industry is at its best when it is unpredictable. The most innovative technologies are often the most unexpected and seem to come from the most inauspicious of beginnings. As the ever changing line up of so-called market disruptors continues to trample the status quo, we see time and time again that business can change extremely quickly and...

21 December 2015

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Why the Customer is King in Strategic Planning

Companies are faced with a future that would appear to be both unknowable and uncontrollable. Some appear to have slipped into the false comfort that it is best not to make too many firm choices, and instead let strategy emerge as events unfold to make the future clearer. Back in the 1970’s, Henry Mintzberg —still lecturing, writing and tweeting a...

26 November 2015

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Keeping the Tax Man Onside

As Margaret Mitchell exclaimed in the classic novel, Gone with the Wind: “Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.” And while I hope that most businesses would be sympathetic to the first and more understanding of the last, when it comes to taxes I’m certain they would be in agreement. We know that taxes are...

04 November 2015

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Struggling to keep up with your workforce? You’re not alone!

In recent years, the financial services sector has seen significant change. A wave of mergers and acquisitions as well as new regulations and reporting structures have changed UK and European institutions, adding an unprecedented level of scrutiny and increasing compliance pressures more than ever before. Financial organisations must ensure they h...

16 September 2015

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No Surprises: Making Life More Predictable for the CFO

Imagine, if you will, the following scene taking place during a regular board meeting: the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is ready to present her numbers, prepared in collaboration with her team. It’s taken three weeks of uninterrupted work to get the true picture of the company’s financial health. She delivers balance sheets, consolidated sales re...

10 July 2015

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The Sales Challenge: What Can SPM Investment Offer Today’s Sales Force?

There is a very compelling argument that the sales team represents the engine room of any organisation. After all, what is more fundamental to a business than the ability to sell its product or services? Ironically, despite being the key driver for revenue, the sales department often seems to be left behind by technology investment. Teams are le

08 June 2015

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How to come to a right decision in highly volatile times

The first months of 2015 were fertile in macroeconomic events. The European Central Bank (ECB) finally decided to practice its own version of "quantitative easing", inspired by the unconventional methods that the US Federal Reserve (FED) had implemented. This strategy involves not only a massive purchase of public debt but also a purcha...

15 May 2015

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How to make technology implementations a help, not a hindrance

From my experience, a recent trend has emerged in the banking industry, whereby regulatory changes are no longer the primary concern of financial services executives. Instead, implementing a digital strategy has seemingly leapt to the top spot. In our digital world it’s concerning that one of the biggest industries around the globe is still strugg...

23 March 2015 /regulation

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Keeping Track of Headcount: How to Stay Afloat Despite Shifting Staff

Although the growth in the rest of the UK economy remains febrile and there is some hesitancy over the outcome of rapidly approaching general election, the financial services sector has made a remarkable recovery. In January this year, news agency Reuters reported that professionals moving to new jobs in 2014 boosted their salaries by an average o...

29 January 2015

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The Challenge: Securing the Workforce of Tomorrow

According to a recent PwC global survey[1], finding and securing the workforce of tomorrow is one of the biggest concerns facing CEOs today. It seems that rapidly shifting demographics, different population growth rates around the world, rampant urbanisation, and rising labour costs are contributing to unprecedented challenges in workforce planni...

22 January 2015

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