B4
We are committed to cherishing our beautiful landscape at Howbery Business Park, making the most of outdoor spaces for our community to enjoy, and playing our part in encouraging bio-diversity. Our most recent initiative – championing bumblebees – joins a whole raft of other measures introduced over recent years, which those based here clearly appreciate.
It’s a familiar response that Nick Hughes of Dynamic Coach hears almost daily. Where businesses have invested in a sales training programme – he questions how businesses are facing up to the new challenges.
In the world of retail, there has been no time more than the present that has emphasised just how valuable it is to be online.
There’s a lot of obvious things that we could all say about the last three months, the lessons learned, changing working practices, getting to know our colleagues, customers and associates better remotely than we did in person….the main thing is that we’re all focused on a positive future having experienced the biggest reboot any of us will ever go through.
B4 has been a great window through which to view the continued and growing shift businesses are making to embed more positive social and environmental purpose at the heart of what they do, and I have been proud to support B4 in this direction too.
The enforced lockdown due to the Coronavirus has placed a new demand for IT systems and technology like never before.
At the time of writing this, we are still in lockdown until at least the 7th of May, with the earliest practical lifting of any restrictions for most businesses being the 11th.
Business life, right now, is bizarre. We’re all adjusting to new ways of working and life is, in many respects, starting to resemble a new kind of normal.
During this time of unprecedented change, the School is learning to adapt to new ways of working.
As we prepare for the next level of control over the prevention and spread of Covid-19, many businesses will start to re-open but with strict social distancing measures in place.
The COVID-19 situation in the UK has caused a great deal of uncertainty for investors. The FTSE 100 lost around 30% of its value from the beginning of February to the fourth week in March.
Blenheim Palace has been closed for nearly a month as I write this, except for free entry to the Park for our local community.
At the time of writing, we are only a third of the way through the year but, despite the current crisis, it’s been a busy start to the year for Owen Mumford.
Rod Macrae has been hearing about the way businesses have responded to the challenge of COVID-19 – and the support available for SMEs from OxLEP.
Ensuring that a limited management and leadership team is optimised to engage with and support a growing workforce is a key aspect to unlocking future potential.