20 posts categorised "Cross sector topics"

10 October 2018 Six tips for professional services leaders looking to embrace Artificial Intelligence By Euan Cameron We recently held a round table event for professional services leaders where we discussed Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the benefits available to...

31 May 2018 For UK manufacturers, realising the full value of the digital supply chain will require a new strategy and more collaborative culture By Jens Wunderlin For manufacturers based in here the UK, the findings of PwC’s Global Digital Operations Study 2018 bring major cause for concern. The...

26 March 2018 GDPR is coming. Is your facilities management company ready? By Raoul Rambaut GDPR put simply, is the single biggest shakeup of data protection law in the past 20 years. And with its enforcement date...

22 March 2018 Manufacturing outlook on the up as automation takes hold - UKEO By Cara Haffey The latest UK Economic Outlook has an interesting focus on industry and automation with the view that by the mid-2030s, over 40%...

16 March 2018 As the UK construction industry looks to reshape workforces for a post-Brexit world, can automation help to fill the gap? By Julia Onslow-Cole I recently attended a fascinating dinner with senior executives from several leading UK construction firms. Amid the lively buzz of conversation around...

30 January 2018 Happy New Revenue Year for Tech Companies! IFRS 15 for FY18. by Gareth Murfitt, PwC Technology partner Tech companies continue to benefit from global digitalisation, huge investment funds focussed on the sector, a growing number of...

10 December 2015 Zero-based budgeting part 3: Sending out the search party By Mike Clements In my last blog I examined the process of creating a baseline for future budgets. In this, the third part of this...

18 November 2015 Zero based budgeting. So, where do you start? By Mike Clements In our first blog post in this series, which you can read here, we looked at the rationale for zero-based budgeting, how...

05 November 2015 The art of helicopter flying and leading businesses By Raj Mody Follow @PensionsRaj When I fly helicopters, I have the chance to learn and hone a lot of skills which I think are...

30 October 2015 How secure is your business? Managing the risks that flow from IT/OT convergence By Duncan Page and Joseph Hancock From espionage by nation states to wholesale thefts of personal data, cyber attacks on enterprise IT systems are headline...

29 October 2015 How starting budgets from zero avoids those quietly creeping costs By Mike Clements Over time, many costs for most organisations have a tendency to creep up. As most annual budgets are put together by taking...

23 October 2015 Driving down costs by 25%: How tearing up last years’ budget really does drive down cost By Mike Clements When I worked at ICI, more years ago than I care to remember, I saw a very typical seven-year business cycle in...

27 August 2015 How to embed trust and control in major capital programmes By David Van Oss In late June 2015, Network Rail – the authority responsible for the United Kingdom's railway network – announced it would be...

04 August 2015 Putting a roof over generation rent By Simon Hardwick Follow @simon_hardwick Times have changed since I bought my first property in 1976. In the 1980’s there was a transformation in government...

02 July 2015 How major programmes are harnessing the power of digital to drive real-time insight and better outcomes By Pat Beattie Ever tried to drive a car while looking in the rear-view mirror? Me neither. But if you’ve managed major portfolios and programmes...

29 June 2015 Running the risk numbers: do you know what your project contingencies add up to? If not, it’s time to take control By Alpesh Shah As a senior executive, you know that all your long-term major projects have a risk contingency built into the budget and contracting...

11 June 2015 How the UK’s new ‘above-the-line’ R&D tax incentives open the way to real-time expenditure reporting By Diarmuid MacDougall It’s not often that what may appear to be an arcane technical change to the tax incentives regime becomes a positive force...

04 June 2015 Preparing for the unexpected: small business or major corporation – we’re all in it together By Martin Caddick and Sev Cokayne At Christmas in 2013 disaster struck Maidstone, the historic county town of Kent. Located on a flood plain, Maidstone...

01 May 2015 How to build a crisis response capability – not just for the Board, but at all levels and across all sites By Paul Robertson We all know from the news – and some of us from fraught first-hand experience – that a ‘showstopper’ crisis which threatens...

15 April 2015 Data analytics and visualisation: the quick route to a sustainable and efficient global supply chain By Sambit Banerjee When you buy a designer coat or a new family car, do you ever think about the complex – and probably global...

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