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10 of the best… productivity hacks
- Article
- 04 Jan 2024
- ICAEW Insights
Looking to stress less and achieve more in 2024? These 10 ideas could be the key to your most productive year yet.
2024 - a year of major change
- Article
- 02 Jan 2024
- ICAEW Insights
Several general elections across the globe have great implications for the profession in 2024. But those are not the only changes that will affect accountants.
ICAEW calls for action to boost UK’s productivity and resilience
- Article
- 06 Nov 2023
- ICAEW Insights
In a letter to the Chancellor, ICAEW recommends the introduction of incentives to support sustainable business growth and long-term funding streams for local councils, as well as tax simplification and action to improve HMRC service standards.
All for show: when productivity is just performance
- Article
- 10 Aug 2023
- ICAEW Insights
In accountancy, as in every other walk of life, there are those who’d rather look busy than work hard. In the hybrid world, there are new ways to create the illusion – a trend that has been dubbed productivity theatre.
ICAEW-hosted Labour Business Network analyses Spring Budget
- Article
- 22 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Business rates, SME late payments and net zero were among subjects tackled by Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy, Jonathan Reynolds MP, in an ICAEW-hosted business Q&A.
What are the problems with current productivity solutions?
- Article
- 10 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
There’s no shortage of schemes to remedy the UK’s productivity woes – but why aren’t they having more of a collective effect?
BEIS expands eligibility for Help to Grow: Digital scheme
- Article
- 25 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
From today, BEIS is widening the goalposts for its Help to Grow: Digital scheme, almost tripling the number of businesses able to access discounts on software that will improve productivity.
Digital monitoring: big brother or productivity boost?
- Article
- 20 May 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The rise and rise of digital monitoring is raising eyebrows, so should you turn to technology to monitor your staff or is there a better way to keep tabs on workforce productivity?
Help to Grow targets post-pandemic profitability for SMEs
- Article
- 29 Nov 2021
- ICAEW Insights
A government-subsidised executive training course aimed at SMEs and delivered by business schools across the UK is hoping to help companies capitalise on the post-pandemic recovery and address the UK’s poor record on productivity.
Corporate governance – big changes ahead? 18 June 2021
- Article
- 29 Jun 2021
- ICAEW
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has ambitious plans to overhaul audit and corporate governance regulation. ICAEW therefore held a virtual session on Friday 18 June that focused on Corporate Governance: Big Changes Ahead? This was an interactive session hosted by Iain Wright ICAEW’s Managing Director of Reputation & Influence where ICAEW members had the opportunity to ask questions directly to BEIS officials.
Putting the 10-point plan into action
- Article
- 06 Apr 2021
- ICAEW Insights
Duncan Baker MP gives an insight into how the government’s 10-point green industrial strategy is being applied as we look towards a green recovery after the pandemic.
UKRI gets NAO thumbs up for Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
- Article
- 17 Feb 2021
18 February 2021: The National Audit Office has given UK Research and Innovation a broadly positive report on its engagement with industry and academia on projects advancing future mobility, clean growth, artificial intelligence and data.
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Measuring employee productivity at home
- Article
- 16 Feb 2021
- Business and Management Faculty
How do you keep an eye on employees when they are working at home?
Business spotlight: COVID brings productivity into sharp focus
- Article
- 20 Aug 2020
20 August 2020: If we can restart the economy with the productivity gap in mind, we can recover stronger, according to Be the Business Director of Programmes Louise Sunderland.
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Using soft skills for personal gain
- Article
- 16 Mar 2020
- Anne Taylor
How you can utilise the power of soft skills to positive effect.
Flybe: what are the impacts of the airline’s administration?
- Article
- 05 Mar 2020
5 March 2020: Flybe’s entry into administration is bad news for customers, employees, creditors, suppliers, and even other airlines. But what does it mean for the UK regions, the UK’s industrial strategy and the environment?
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Drive your decisions with data
- Article
- 21 Feb 2020
- Simon Hedaux
Use data to make the best decisions, and don’t drown in numbers.
A week in the life of a regional industrial strategy manager
- Article
- 18 Feb 2020
We join ICAEW’s Regional Industrial Strategy Manager, Rosalia Wood on the road and in the office on a typical working week.
Brexit resilience testing: LEPs need your skills
- Article
- 31 Jan 2020
31 January 2020: Brexit resilience testing, risk analysis and audit – sound familiar? These skills, second nature to accountants, are at the heart of Local Enterprise Partnerships’ (LEPs’) endeavours to support business. Jo Murray speaks to Mark Bretton, Chair of the LEP Network and Hertfordshire LEP.
Start-up survival and the role of chartered accountants
- Article
- 27 Jan 2020
27 January 2020: Iain Wright, ICAEW’s Director for Business and Industrial Strategy, explains how accountants are essential to entrepreneurialism, business survival and growth.
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The fall of Thomas Cook and how to survive
- Article
- 04 Dec 2019
- Charlie Mellor
The business opportunities to take advantage of without Thomas Cook.
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Smart cuts
- Article
- 05 Feb 2016
- Andrew Wileman
Managing and cutting costs (including staff costs) remain right at the top of management’s agenda. Andrew Wileman describes how to do this intelligently.
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