This is written by Sukhendu Pal, the chairman of management consultant Sirius & Co and an adviser to some of the world’s most valuable companies, as well as a lead mentor to Funding London’s 150+ ...

“Every prime minister needs a Willie,” announced Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minster in 10 Downing Street. She was referring to Lord Whitelaw, her deputy and leader in the House of Lords, ...

There is a plaque on Manchester’s Midland Hotel to commemorate the first meeting in 1904 of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, the start of a partnership that led to the creation of the renowned ...

All too many people have not heard of Dame Stephanie Shirley, but they should have. She launched a business that grew to employ 8,500 people and was sold for £2.3bn. She made more than 70 of her ...

Stephen Bennington is the co-founder and CEO of Q5D, a Bristol-based robotics company aiming to automate one of the last stubbornly manual parts of manufacturing: wiring. “We’re aimed at trying to ...

AI is levelling the playing field in business, and in some ways, SMEs have advantages over large companies. That’s the view of César Cernuda, president of NetApp. The San Jose tech company has ...

Rural Shropshire is home to the UK’s last remaining producer of flat-rolled aluminium coils. Bridgnorth Aluminium employs over 330 people and has annual sales in excess of £230m, around 60 per cent of ...

Nadine Merabi used to play hockey professionally for England. Today, her global fashion brand, Nadine Merabi, has sales of over $50m (£37.8m) a year. Her designs have been worn on red carpets at ...

The Sterling Choice is a recruitment company set up in 2012. A majority of its business comes from food and beverage manufacturing – recruiting for the initial stages of harvesting or processing of ...

Acquisition can be one of the fastest ways to scale but it can also be one of the most costly mistakes a founder makes without the right knowledge going in. In this Micro-Learning session we bring ...

A decade ago, Leicester City beat 5,000-to-one odds to win the Premier League, British Home Stores entered administration and the world mourned the loss of music icon David Bowie. However, for the UK, ...

Britain will soon see its seventh prime minister in the space of a decade. It’s over for Keir Starmer; on 22 June, he announced his resignation, following a tumultuous leadership defined by a ...