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Analysing the competitive landscape

How to use Porter’s Five Forces model to assess the overall competitive landscape for your particular market. Porter’s Five Forces model is a widely used framework for analysing the competitive environment of a particular industry or business sector. Porter’s Five Forces are five separate factors that can impact business growth. The theory was developed by […]

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Managing cyber risk

Businesses need to be vigilant and take steps to manage cyber risks effectively! Cyber-attacks are on the increase and it’s not just large, international corporations that are being targeted. As businesses increasingly rely on technology for their day-to-day operations, they are also exposed to new and evolving cyber risks. Cyber-attacks can not only damage a

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Chat GPT

What is it and what could it mean for businesses? Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence technology that has the potential to revolutionise the way businesses operate. It is a state-of-the-art language model that uses machine learning to understand and respond to natural language input. It has been trained on a massive dataset of text,

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Building an effective sales strategy

It’s time to refresh your approach to sales. Digital technology, combined with fears of a recession, are changing the buying behaviours of customers. More people than ever before are working remotely and this means that face to face sales opportunities are often being replaced by digital interactions. This has given rise to hybrid selling. Hybrid

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NordPass

Simple and secure password management.Strong and varied passwords are key to effective cyber-security. However, few people can remember all the passwords needed for logging into their various devices, online accounts, cloud services and so forth. That’s where password managers come in. A password manager is an encrypted digital storage vault that stores secure password information

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Encouraging collaboration

Building a collaborative culture isn’t easy. If it was, all businesses would be good at Good results are dependent on good relationships. In order to build a collaborative business from the top down, the management team need to build good connections with each other. Talented business leaders may often struggle with collaboration. In many cases,

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Critical Thinking

Improve your problem-solving skills to help you become a more effective manager In business, critical thinking is the ability to solve problems effectively by gathering key information about the issues at hand, generate further ideas involving a variety of perspectives, evaluating the information using logic and making sure that everyone involved is on board with

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Rethink your supply chain

Rethink your supply chain

Supply chain disruption has been an ongoing issue since the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges and disruption for businesses across the world. Now that most parts of the world are open and trying to get back to normal, demand is increasing and supply chain disruption has become a serious problem for many businesses. A

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