Technologgie

Reducing the Environmental Impact of Your Business Premises

By André Fonseca, CEO of Zypho

Around the world environmental concerns are at an all-time high, and business owners want to ensure that they do what they can to reduce their environmental impact of their business.

Businesses can lobby through professional bodies, industry groups etc. for greater action at a national level, but what else can be done to confront the climate crisis by businesses themselves?

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Luxury Gifts Without the Luxury Price Tag for the Business Traveller

By Matthew Cule, Founder of CuleM Watches

Are you scratching your head for a gift idea for someone who travels for work? They probably already have everything they ‘need’ – so a little luxury would be ideal to help them look the part and enjoy their trips more. But you’d like to avoid the hefty price tag?

Here are my some gorgeous gifts that ooze elegance and sophistication. I love them because they are useful and beautiful; each item is made to last and looks fabulous. What’s not to love?

The Carry-On (Asphalt)

$225/£225/€245

This is a practical and cool carry-on suitcase with ejectable battery for charging your devices on the go. Away has reinvented the common carry-on with a limited warranty to last a lifetime – similar to a Swiss made watch. Each suitcase is made of a durable polycarbonate shell with 360 degree spinner wheels, laundry bag and compression system. My personal favorite is the asphalt grey. For essential space saving after a trip, smaller suitcase can fit neatly inside larger suitcases in the range. Unlike other luggage brands, Away oozes travel and is a nice gift that may inspire someone to travel that little bit more.

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How to Show Appreciation, Reward Staff, and Support Mental Well-being

By Craig Bulow, founder of Corporate Away Days

Rewarding your staff is an excellent way to improve employee motivation, create an appreciative working culture and an atmosphere which improves overall company productivity and employee well-being. Employees who feel appreciated will ALWAYS do more than is expected of them.

The culture of business is beginning to change where business owners recognize the need to implement well-being initiatives. This is not just about mindfulness and health, it is also about recognition and reward.

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How to Make a Product Worthy of a Great Taste Award

By Kim Havelaar, Founder of Roqberry

Before it wins a Great Taste Award your food product will be blind-tasted and judged by some of the most demanding food critics, restaurateurs, chefs, cooks, and producers, as well as food writers and journalists.

After this extensive process, when customers see the distinctive black and gold Great Taste label they know they can expect a wonderful tasting product. One star is given for products that deliver fantastic flavor, while two stars are reserved for those that are above and beyond delicious.

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Top 5 Apps to Help Save Your Business Money

By Sophie Hainsworth, LoyalFree

All businesses need to be mindful about saving money. Whether you’re looking to cut the cost of your utility bills or save on those business lunches, you’re probably always on the lookout for any way to save some money.

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When Facing a Business Challenge Should You Turn to Expensive Consultancy Firms or Try a Different Approach?

By Marieta Bencheva, Consulthon

When you start a business, you know you will be facing challenges and risks. In the first twelve months one in five small businesses will fail. Thirty per cent of small business fail in their second year, 50% fail after five years, and 70% fail in their tenth year of operation.

Why is this? Is this number of businesses shutting up shop inevitable?

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The Impact of the Platform Ecosystem on Loyalty Industry

By Aparajita Roy, KornChain

Technological innovation leads to new business models and industries are leveraging digital technologies to develop new platform-based business models where the platforms act as enablers.

The emerging platform strategies promise to provide unprecedented scale, speed, and global reach. These can build the foundation for unleashing new market opportunities from system management to data collection to gather deep consumer insights. We have seen platform model underlying the success of many biggest and fast-growing companies such as the global tech giants like Amazon, Google, Alibaba and companies like Uber, Airbnb, eBay, KAYAK. These are simply the platforms on which products and services are built and supplied. But not a product or a service itself.

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Launch of Eco-Friendly Shoe Designed for Business Travelers

By Matt Bagwell, Co-founder of Seven Feet Apart

Ever had to pack so many shoes in your suitcase that you’ve struggled to fit everything else in? Shoes for meetings, for exploring the city, for a relaxed dinner, an evening event with clients… so many activities, so many different shoes required.

Well, we’ve set out to solve that problem – with a new shoe, called Flite, from Seven Feet Apart. I like my shoes to be comfy, but I also like them to work with a variety of outfits (business to casual), and they have to be lightweight and easy to pack.

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Three Approaches for Backing-Up Your Business Data

By Mike Ianiri, Redsquid

You and your team will be creating a large amount of data every week ranging from invoicing data to Photoshop images. It may be hard to imagine how your business would cope if a critical failure meant you lost all or even some of this data.

Recovering individual documents, such as a Microsoft Word file, when your PC crashes is much easier than it used to be, with the advent of functions such as Autorecover¹. Other software applications have similar functionality, such as Autosave within Photoshop². But these won’t recover large numbers of documents if your business experiences a backup failure or a major flood or fire.

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Why You Need to Test Tech Candidates to Get the Right Fit

By Gurvinder Singh, TechRank

The digital tech sector is dynamic. This means that to fuel growth businesses need to recruit the right people with the right skills. Hiring can be difficult for two reasons: the nature of the candidates themselves, and, a recruitment process that simply isn’t good enough.

Technology people tend to be either: extroverts who can talk a good game, but often don’t have the skills to back up their claims; or introverts with great skills, but a lack of salesmanship that will get them through the interview process successfully. Resumés and interviews rarely tell the whole story. This dichotomy of resumés and skills makes recruitment in the tech sector extremely difficult.

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