Tech Be Quick - Building agile businesses in a changing world

Claire Rason sat down again with the different generations working within Boyes Turner to discuss how millennials and generation z prefer to be managed 

There has been much talk about how different generations in the workplace have vastly differing requirements when it comes to preferences for management styles but also expectations on benefits and rewards. We consider this but also ask how important is technology to these generations? How does agility support the working practices of younger members of the workforce?

How can businesses deliver benefits and rewards which appeal to all of the generations?

In this penultimate episode of the Tech Be Quick podcast series Claire Rason, head of Marketing and Business Development at Boyes Turner, is joined by generation X, Y & Z solicitors from Boyes Turner. Emma O'Connor, head of Training, represents generation X. Nick Bailey, employment Associate - Solicitor, represents generation Y or the millennials and Calum Parfitt, Trainee Solicitor in Boyes Turner's Commercial team, represents generation Z. We also had the chance to speak with Tara Lochery, head of HR at tech firm Subfero, on how their business deals with the different requirements of generations X, Y & Z.

Previous episode - Securing funding for your tech business

In our previous episode Claire spoke to a number of guests on how tech entrepreneurs, scale-up and start-up businesses can secure funding and what should they be watching out for. Mark explained how his company, and abilities, have grown from a start-up entrepreneur to CEO of established tech business Trusted Care. Guy also speaks about his entrepreneurial experience and his involvement as an investor in Trusted Care. Monica, Investment Director at ICON Corporate Finance and contributor to our Tech Be Quick report, offers advice on how tech businesses looking to secure funding can avoid common pitfalls.

To view our 'Tech be Quick' report in full please visit www.techbequick.co.uk.

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HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss

Following a hugely successful Tech breakfast event at Boyes Turner's offices, we were able to grab the speaker, Monica Shupikai Simmons from ICON Corporate Finance, and our panel - Mark Walford from Trusted Care and Guy Myles from Flying Colours.

How can tech entrepreneurs, scale-up and start-up businesses secure funding and what should they be watching out for?

In this latest episode, Mark explained how his company, and abilities, have grown from a start-up entrepreneur to CEO of established tech business Trusted Care. Guy also speaks about his entrepreneurial experience and his involvement as an investor in Trusted Care. He also gives some insight into what he wishes he'd done differently when building his first company, Octopus Investments, from start-up to market leader with over £6bn of assets under management for more than 50,000 customers. Monica, Investment Director at ICON Corporate Finance and contributor to our Tech Be Quick report, offers advice on how tech businesses looking to secure funding can avoid common pitfalls.

Previous episode - Recruitment issues facing tech businesses in 2019

If you haven't already listened, in our last episode, Claire Rason took the opportunity to speak to Claire Taylor-Evans, a Senior Associate in the Boyes Turner employment team who specialises in business immigration law, on what she sees as the key challenges for HR Directors (and business in general in 2019) - and it's not just Brexit!

To view our 'Tech be Quick' report in full please visit www.techbequick.co.uk.

Thank you for tuning in! Please remember to subscribe to receive the next in our series and tweet us @boyesturner to share your biggest takeaways from this episode or ideas for new ones.

HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss

With Brexit looming ever closer Claire Rason took the opportunity to speak to Claire Taylor-Evans, a Senior Associate in the Boyes Turner employment team who specialises in business immigration law, on what she sees as the key challenges for HR Directors (and business in general in 2019) - and it's not just Brexit!

In this episode, they talk about how businesses can prepare for immigration in the future and ensure that they have prepared themselves, whatever the outcome.

The employment team will also be considering the implications of Brexit in a free webinar on March 14th - sign up at https://www.boyesturner.com/event/employment-webinar-what-are-the-post-brexit-implications-for-hr.

To view our 'Tech be Quick' report in full please visit www.techbequick.co.uk.

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HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss

Following another successful Tech Breakfast event last month our Boyes Turner podcast presenter, Claire Rason, had the opportunity to speak with Gareth Ralphs, Partnership Manager (South East) at the Department for International Trade and head of Technology at Boyes Turner LLP, Mark Blunden.

In this episode, we ask Gareth just what is so attractive about the Thames Valley for global tech firms looking to establish a UK or European base. Claire also asks both guests what expanding businesses should be doing to prepare for and implement setting up their business in the Thames Valley.

In our last episode, we also talked international business agility with Tom Rogers, Director of International Marketing at Rapid7 and Mark Heath, CTO at Cloudfactory. Both guests spoke about how they operate as international businesses and what attracted their organisations to the UK originally.

To view our 'Tech be Quick' report in full please visit www.techbequick.co.uk.

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HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss

What does agility mean to you? Why do companies relocate to the UK? What is so attractive about the Thames Valley? Do you occupy the 'right time zone' to be an efficient, agile business?

Following our first podcast episode where we talked about the people side of business, our second podcast looks at international business agility. We spoke to Tom Rogers, Director of International Marketing at Rapid7 and Mark Heath, CTO at Cloudfactory about how they operate as international businesses and what attracted their organisations to the UK.

Rapid7's SecOps platform is used by over 7,000 organisations in more than 120 countries, including 52% of the Fortune 100. Headquartered in Boston, they have 17 offices across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia and a regional headquarters in Theale, Reading.

CloudFactory are leaders in the Impact Sourcing movement and aim to connect 1 million people to online work while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities. They have five offices globally including one in the Thames Valley.

To view our 'Tech be Quick' report in full please visit www.techbequick.co.uk.

Thank you for tuning in! Please remember to subscribe to receive the next in our series (Tech Be Quick: Going International with the Department for Trade and Boyes Turner) and tweet us @boyesturner to share your biggest takeaways from this episode or ideas for new ones.

HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss

People are at the forefront of driving agility at fast-growth high-tech businesses. But can they also be the biggest obstacle to true agility? How can businesses avoid the pitfalls, recruit the 'right' people (and retain them) whilst encouraging new, more agile ways of working?

In the first of our series surrounding the recent agility report (Tech be nimble, tech be quick, tech don't forget the legal bit which can be found at www.techbequick.co.uk) we look at 'the agile workforce'.

Claire Rason, head of Business Development & Marketing at Boyes Turner speaks to one of the reports key contributors, Barry Stanton, head of the Employment team at Boyes Turner (one of the UK's leading full-service regional law firms).

Thank you for tuning in! Please remember to subscribe to receive the next in our series (Tech Be Quick: Going International - setting up agile businesses) and tweet us @boyesturner to share your biggest takeaways from this episode or ideas for new ones.

HOSTING - Claire Rason, PRODUCTION & EDITING - Joanne Bayliss