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Dom Oldfield, Agribusiness Partner at Miles Advisory, explores Q1 2025 and the emerging trends in Global Agribusiness for the rest of the year

Windrush communities will be given an independent voice within government as an advertisement inviting applications to become the Windrush Commissioner has been launched.

Fran Thompson analyses the global fintech funding landscape in 2024 and looks to the challenges and opportunities ahead in an already turbulent 2025.

Marcus Luke provides insight into the Procurement Act 2023, ahead of its implementation this October.

Miles Advisory Board Practice Partners Deborah Cooper and Andrea Trainer explore the origins of the Senior Independent Director and examine the importance of the role in ensuring Board effectiveness.

Welcome to paper three of this three-part series on the implications of the development of AI for leaders and leadership. Previously we reviewed the key technical underpinnings of AI and have further explored some of the challenges for leaders in navigating the transformation process to an AI enabled organisation.

Welcome to the second of our three-paper review on the opportunities and challenges for leaders emerging from the development and adoption of AI. In our first paper we reviewed its emergence during the latter half of the C20th and key technical aspects of its current and potential future manifestations. In this paper we continue to explore specific challenges for leaders in adopting and extracting value from this still emerging technology. There has always been a key requirement for organisational leaders to scan the technological horizon and identify and utilize emerging technologies to at least keep pace with competitors, if not outpace them.

Welcome to this first part of a two-part series that looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for leadership and management. Other than ‘Wordle’, ‘AI’ was one of the most searched for terms in 2022 / 2023. Attention and interest in the subject have risen to a state of relative frenzy, particularly on business orientated social media sites like LinkedIn and Maimai (China’s most trafficked professional social networking site).

With the 2024 General Election campaign coming to its climax, we were delighted to support Bestway Healthcare in welcoming the Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak, to their Service Centre depot in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 1st July. 

Well done to Emma Jones who has completed her 5k a day running challenge in support of SOS International Children’s Villages.

The end of the ‘move fast and break things’ era? If we are to believe Professor Richard Porter there are only three basic ‘generic’ strategies available to us to secure competitive advantage, cost leadership, differentiation and focus.

COVID presented both a very real existential crisis for organisations, and a new context for crisis leadership. As the crisis developed, more organisations found it necessary to move their entire operation into a virtual space, with most employees working remotely, typically from home.