How the payments industry is being disrupted
While McKinsey expect the payments industry to keep growing at a healthy rate, powerful disruptive forces will begin to reshape the global landscape.
Recruiting and retaining more women in technology organisations
In this McKinsey insight, board members of the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code reflect on why women are typically underrepresented in technology-related jobs and how to improve the numbers.
Organising for growth
The Boston Consulting Group have identified five secrets that leaders can use to promote the cooperation and behaviour that new growth initiatives require.
The Real Data on Equity Crowdfunding Performance
Crowdfunding is a key growth area for the funding of small and medium sized enterprises in the UK. Access to capital has traditionally been an extremely difficult challenge for start-up companies to face. Even with a large number of angel investors in the UK market, achieving a fully funded investment round was time consuming, clunky and often the result of luck, as opposed to access to the right people. Crowdfunding has revolutionised that process.
6th Spectrum & Ardent eCommerce Leadership Dinner, November 2015
What Black Friday means for you tomorrow... Spectrum’s 6th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 23rd November in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. Perhaps it was the fast-approaching festive season that made this evening a particularly jovial affair – or, was it something to do with the excitement associated with the even closer ‘Black Friday’?
Japanese CEO pay roughly 10% that of US counterparts
A survey by American consulting company, Towers Watson, has revealed CEOs of Japanese corporations receive compensation equal to about one-tenth of that paid to their U.S. counterparts.