What is SaaS? SaaS or Software-as-a-Service is a licensing model in which the provider hosts the application and makes it available to customers over the Internet. By accessing software on a subscription basis, they let the SaaS provider manage, secure, and maintain the digital tools. This way, companies can finally leave these time-consuming tasks behind and focus only on business growth. SaaS is a unique solution that solves all technical…
According to a survey conducted by the Workplace Bullying Institute, managers and bosses represent a staggering 65% of people who bully in the workplace. That number is far too high, and it’s time to equip yourself with the tools needed to deal with it. Civility Partners is a consulting and coaching firm based in La Mesa, California. Their articles are always filled with important and valuable insights and tips. Three…
The value of working together is intuitive to most leaders. Capturing the full value of operating as one firm, however, is elusive for most. Those who drive integration and standardization from the top down often stifle business-level innovation, entrepreneurship, and client responsiveness, which can further create talent attraction and retention issues.
There’s a lot of political stalling and idealization going on. The Energy Commission of the Swiss National Council recently decided to stick with an only partially liberalized energy market. It’s following the lead of the Council of States, which has also rejected the idea of a full opening of the energy market. This breaks an even older political promise: Since 2014, the choice of electricity supplier should have been completely…
Companies may attract and keep the greatest personnel in the market by implementing virtual recruiting, giving DEI projects top priority, embracing the gig economy, emphasizing skills over degrees, and investing in employer branding.
Alfred Escher’s bank is history. A toxic cocktail of private mismanagement, governmental knee-jerk reactions and shaken confidence has taken its toll. The history of scandals and mismanagement at Credit Suisse had long weighed heavily. According to reports, clients and major investors had been divesting themselves of the Swiss bank’s products and securities for months. Following the second and third largest bank failures in history in the US in March, the…
Recently, a discovery of so-called rare earths in Kiruna, Sweden, caused a great uproar in the media. Rare earths are a group of 17 elements that are often grouped together because they occur commonly and have similar properties. The EU Commission lists them as critical raw materials alongside metals like cobalt, lithium, and titanium. This means that they are of crucial economic importance, but cannot be reliably mined in the…
The innovations that generative AI could ignite for businesses of all sizes and levels of technological proficiency are truly exciting. However, executives will want to remain acutely aware of the risks that exist at this early stage of the technology’s development.
Mishcon de Reya is a Law firm with more than 600 lawyers. Lawyer David Parsons offers an exciting view and advice on how to handle, and avoid, problems with employees accusing their firms in Public. With Christiano Ronaldo being one of the best soccer players in the World, Manchester United being one of the most followed sports clubs and the World Cup in Qatar, what can be more relevant?
Employers are beginning to see how skills-based practices can expand their access to great talent—but the benefits aren’t only for employers. As employers adopt these practices across their talent journeys, workers are more equipped to find better jobs based on their skills rather than their degrees, educational background, or years of experience in a specific role. In the face of ongoing macroeconomic challenges, now is the time for all stakeholders in workforce development to commit resources and support to accelerating adoption of these practices and build more equitable prosperity in communities.
So basically, they trade their time for money, they spend their time doing a task for someone else and they get to pay for it. This way, it's used by most people because it doesn't have any risk. At the end of each month, an employee will receive their money. The cons of this method are that it is almost impossible to achieve financial freedom or self-growth.
These are just a few examples that I can think of right now to demonstrate what would happen if Marketing was suddenly gone. The world would be less colourful, less tasty, a bit more boring. People would have to work hard to choose, find, try, re-buy a product or service, differentiate themselves from the crowd, and discover alternatives.
I saw many businesses where the children of Entrepreneurs would have to get fired from their parents, but the scenario where the father would have to be fired is a little more complicated. And it is more complicated because in such cases the father usually holds all the cards, has more allies, and more ‘gravity’.
The current 4-day workweek trend is the bastard child of a pandemic and the force of habit. A pandemic that forced an entire planet to first stop on its feet and then work from home, and the unstoppable Force of habit of human nature that at some point saw, and experienced, that working like this might actually work. I have my doubts.
Hiring the perfect candidates is just the beginning. What next? Throw them to the wolves and watch if they can survive? We create companies to advance forward, not retreat. In the same way, we should hire in order to retain, not dismiss.
Unhappy customers are ten times louder than happy customers. You should view every single complaint as an opportunity to improve your company, not a threat. Maybe the client is wrong, but that doesn’t mean he can’t complain and talk about it. Win that customer over, again.
Everyone runs all-around all day long but at the end of the day, they don't make any or make very little profit. How is this possible? The answer is simple and obvious.
One of the first moves that entrepreneurs make when they find themselves in a difficult position or situation is to reduce wages, make redundancies, or both.
Speed is important but requires proper organizing so as not to backfire. A business with problems in terms of organization, personnel, procedures, and cash flow, can easily make a situation even worst if it tries to become quick simply for the sake of speed.
Our issue here is not the income or expenses but the processes of a business, an area where very few entrepreneurs give the necessary importance but which affects the company itself, its staff, its customers, sales, a lot more than you can even imagine.
All entrepreneurs face various problems but if you gave them the option to solve only one, it would be sales. Everyone would like more sales and would choose to solve this issue than any other they face or will face.
I have no doubt that small businesses are necessary but I have some doubts about their ability to offer more to the economy depending on their size and number.
Unless this conflict escalates to a World War where every further analysis will be redundant and irrelevant, the outcome of this war, I believe, will make us all, in the long term, better and stronger. Including Business.
The ‘people’ element is tricky. A single ‘person’ requires psychology to understand but when you add a lot of ‘persons’ you get a team, and the team often needs a different approach, most easily understood with the study of sociology.
Everybody is trying to make sense of the phenomenon of more and more people resigning from their jobs, especially since the start of the pandemic. Is it a response to the pandemic, a change in culture, is it time for a break, the employers’ fault, the employees’ fault, the Governments’ fault?