As business leaders navigate the shifting market landscape, many must make sense of big data to plan for recovery and growth.

The importance of leveraging data has become even more crucial. The move to remote working has forced significant shifts in how businesses conduct their day-to-day operations, interact with their suppliers and customers and how their employees work.

However, access to good data isn’t enough to guarantee good decisions. Many organisations are still failing to get the most out of their data.

Join Clare Harrall as she talks with Jon Dawson, Partner for Outsourcing, about the importance of people in change management and applying technology to business challenges in this Business Doctor podcast.

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Join our Business Doctor, Clare Harrall, as she talks to Richard Cummings, Lead Partner in our strategic HR Consultancy, Sophie Lord, our Head of Learning and Development, and Victoria Pounder, our Head of HR.

 Find out about the challenges they’re facing here at Moore Kingston Smith, as well as what they’re seeing in the wider marketplace. And get their insights and top tips on addressing skills shortages, competing for talent and adapting to more flexible ways of working.

We welcome your questions to the Business Doctor, you can contact us at https://mooreks.co.uk/business-doctor/

We’ve put together our top ten tips to help make hybrid working successful:

1. Develop a strategy
2. Have a mechanism to check in on employee wellbeing
3. Listen to employee views/gather information
4. Develop new ways of learning/sharing knowledge
5. Develop policies to ensure perception of fairness
6. Managers to lead by example
7. Set clear objectives
8. Arrange working environment assessments
9. Arrange more opportunities to be social (even if virtual)
10. Train managers

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Digital transformation can come in many guises, ranging from simple projects to major organizational change. Without expert guidance, projects have a high risk of failure and businesses could find themselves falling foul of GDPR, missing potential security breaches, or failing to build proper infrastructure among other things. In this webinar our panel of experts covered:

• What is digital transformation and why is it important?
• The difference between digitisation and digitalisation
• The biggest barriers to digital transformation success
• How IT infrastructure supports digital transformation
• How digital transformation changes security needs
• The risks of getting it wrong

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When asked why diversity and inclusion is important, most attendees recognised that it can help to attract and retain talent, but also improve the customer journey and create a competitive advantage. With the correct guidance, inclusivity can provide multi-faceted benefits to your people, and in turn your organisation. There are certainly a range of challenges that SME’s can face; our audience felt that lack of understanding or knowing where to start was equally as challenging as having a lack of resources. Our panel have seen these challenges played out in a variety of organisations and have frameworks to help you on your journey.

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The new off-payroll working rules came into effect in the private sector on 6 April 2021. The changes bring challenges to some and opportunities for other businesses, depending on their size. For larger businesses, the new regime will add costs and administrative burdens to dealing with freelancers providing their services through a personal service company. For smaller businesses, the small company exemption from these rules makes small businesses more attractive for freelancers to work for and may even motivate larger competitors to outsource projects to smaller agencies who can engage freelancers without the additional layer of cost that this new regime will impose.

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In the latest Moore Intelligence podcast, Graham Tyler, leader of Moore’s media group, reflects on the new economic forces driving film and TV production.

The insatiable demand for content by streaming services like Netflix has boosted demand for new material, and provided a Covid lifeline to many production houses.

However, the financial terms the streaming services offer are very different to those of traditional players and producers will have to consider “more nimble” business models in future to maximise revenue.

Originally posted on Moore Global.

In this episode, our Business Doctor, Clare Harrall, is joined by Jamie Sherman to look at the challenges and importance of accurate forecasting in a post-pandemic economy.

We explore challenging the assumptions of your financial model and it’s outputs to put current and accurate information at the heart of your decision-making process. 

 We welcome your questions to the Business Doctor, you can contact us at https://mooreks.co.uk/business-doctor/

Recent events and the increased uncertainty of the future means that all organisations, no matter their size or nature, should take business continuity very seriously. Even if your organisation has coped with the challenges of Coronavirus, there are other potentially catastrophic events that could occur, a major cyber-attack being just one. Although business continuity as a concept has been with us for many years, there is still confusion about what it is. Join us for an informative session with John Eary, a business continuity expert who works with a wide variety of clients to ensure that they have robust plans and systems in place. John covered:

• The importance and purpose of business continuity in a post Coronavirus world
• The key elements of a business continuity management system and how they fit together
• Managing the three phases of a major incident
• The responsibilities of management and business continuity leads
• Ensuing your organisation remains resilient

The webinar concluded with a Q&A session where John was joined by our usual panel of tax, people and Brexit experts.

Mental health and wellbeing has never been so important than in today’s working environment. Whether your teams have been working remotely since last March, or have been attending socially distanced and vastly changed workplaces, the challenges are great and varied. In this webinar, we were joined by Steve Metcalf, Director of Robustmind Mental Fitness Ltd. Steve is an experienced mental health trainer, who gave practical tips and examples covering a variety of topics including:

• The mental health impact of the coronavirus pandemic
• Why it is important for businesses to prioritise employee mental health
• Simple initiatives that can be implemented to help improve mental health at an individual and organisational level
• Developing strategies and policies to improve mental health and wellbeing

We were also joined by Partner Paul Samrah, who heads up our firm’s Wellbeing Group, as well as our usual panel of tax and people experts who were on hand to offer their expertise in a Q&A at the end of the session.