Introduction In order to remain competitive, and viable, businesses now have to deal with a vast and rapidly growing sea of what has been termed ‘Big Data’.  They need to be able to transform this raw data, often in real-time, into more meaningful insights about their markets, customers, competitors, and to measure and manage their performance more accurately using using techniques such as ‘Data Analytics’. In many cases this represents a paradigm shift from their comfort zone of approaches based more on experience, guesswork, or painstakingly constructed models of reality. It used to be that Big Data and Data Analytics were the preserve of large global corporations but consider this…

Introduction The CEO is generally viewed as the overall leader of an organization. Not surprisingly it is also probably the most coveted and challenging role in any organization. Before looking at the role itself let’s take a look at a few interesting statistics on CEO’s: 60% are entrepreneurs who have founded at least one company 28% cite finance as their primary area of expertise. 78% are under 55 with the average age for an incoming CEO in 2014 51-55. The average age for exiting the post was 63. 90% are married and 96% have children 84% have a higher education qualification USA topped the salary list at $12.26M, UK were…

Introduction The World Economic Forum’s ‘Employment, Skills and Human Capital Global Challenge Insight Report 2015’ highlighted that Human capital will be the key factor linking innovation, competitiveness and growth in the 21st century. It also stated that more than a third of employers globally reported facing difficulties in finding talent last year and nearly half expected talent shortages to have a negative impact on their business results. The report stated that global organizations must navigate a “new world of work that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human resources. Many of today’s employees work in global teams that operate on a 24/7 basis. An increasing number…