There can be no doubt the pandemic has altered the emotional make-up of society. Collectively, we are now much more aware of the suffering of others – and how could we not be after seeing lives turned upside down and businesses upended with no sense of rhyme or reason or equity.

Knowing you’re delighting your customers is the holy grail for any business.

Long tail strategy is also about corporate responsibility, the SME agenda, supply chain risk and social value.

Estonia is a small ex-Soviet country in Northern Europe that has a population of only 1.3 million, seven times less than London.

In 2015, Capita and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) formed a joint venture to take shared ownership of Fera, a laboratory-based agency that provides the government with essential guidance on food safety.

The second year of the pandemic has seen more people in the UK slide further into debt and organisations need to recalibrate their response through empathetic collections.

The government has proposed many changes to the planning system in England in its White Paper ‘Planning for the future’.

You don’t have to be involved in collections to be aware that the last 18 months have affected the financial circumstances of a huge number of people.

A complaint is a chance to turn an unhappy customer into a brand ambassador as well as an opportunity to improve your services…but only if handled correctly.

As the UK starts to look for ways to boost the economy and kick-start recovery from Covid-19, could part of the answer lie in unlocking the untapped value of public sector knowledge assets?