INFORM : CHALLENGE : INSPIRE
by Professor Simon Bridge, University of Ulster Social enterprises have become very fashionable. They are lauded, encouraged, wished for, highlighted and/or singled out for special support in many government programmes
by Shaun Pendry, Leadership Institute Belfast ‘Well, that was a waste of time’, ‘So, what was the point of the last two hours?’, ‘Anyone any idea what that was all
Bill Beers, IoD Northern Ireland Business Environment Committee It has been many decades since ‘security of supply’ has been the primary concern in relation to our electricity grid. The recent
by Kirsty McManus, Assistant Regional Director, CBI Northern Ireland There’s an age-old maxim that business, specifically its senior echelons, is something of an old boys club. The maxim goes that,
Chris Johnston, Managing Director, Scottish Provident Building writes…. When Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant came together in the 1990s one of television’s greatest sitcoms, ‘The Office’ was born. At that
Dr Stephen McKeown, CEO Analytics Engines, looks forward to bringing Big Data Week to Belfast – a Titanic global platform for data technologies. Businesses in Northern Ireland are encountering the term
If a business has a problem that needs solving, whatever it is, there tends to be a pattern as to where the business owner will look for a solution. Some
By Frank McCullagh, Solmatix Every month, hundreds of homeowners in Northern Ireland are saving a small fortune by switching over to solar panels for energy and wood pellet boilers for
Dutchman Louis Van Gaal is best suited to be the next Manchester United manager according to Roger Gilpin of one Northern Ireland’s leading executive search companies. Gilpin reached their conclusion
By Frank McCullagh, Solmatix As Northern Ireland’s business sector claws its way out of the worst economic downturn in living memory, we should perhaps remember the old adage: ‘In adversity