Private Finance initiative (PFI) contracts have been and will be with us for some considerable time but there’s an ever-increasing number of PFI contracts now set to expire.

UK productivity has been highlighted as an economic weakness for over a decade. Yet, in response to the pandemic, businesses have shown that they can utilise technology to create entirely new ways of working.

It may only be 2022, but in this decade the world is already proving to be a very different place to the decade before.

Over the past five years apprenticeships have been transformed into a high-quality skills programme for learners and employers ensuring accessibility for all.

Keeping teams motivated and productive in a disparate, more virtual working environment can be difficult. It requires great leaders who know how to boost morale and create a feeling of togetherness, no matter where their teams are based. When there’s a confident leader at the helm, teams can be more productive, happy, and conflict-free.

Is your procurement function making your business more resilient, helping you to manage risk and save money? It should be. Get your free procurement maturity report in minutes.

Our comprehensive procurement health check assesses your spend data and benchmark’s your business against other organisations in your sector to provide a relative procurement maturity score.

Digital platforms have become one of most powerful forces in global business. They support entire ecosystems, enabling rapid growth and huge profits for multiple participants.

Successful businesses and economies are increasingly built on intangible or ‘knowledge assets’ rather than physical ones.

As ONS figures show the UK economy has contracted a further 0.2% between July and September, we consider the implications and way forward for the public sector