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On the beach

At a business event hosted by Impact Executives earlier this month, Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham, former Director-General of the CBI and now senior adviser to Harvey Nash, Impact Executives’ parent group, shared his views on the state of the economy and on how private and public sector organisations can take advantage of the incipient recovery.

Into the breach

"In turnaround situations, interim executives are incredibly valuable because they've seen it all before. Having experienced the situation before and proven the ability to turn a loss-making business into a profitable one, they make fewer mistakes." Terry Donovan CEO Minorplanet Systems plc

Hitting the takeover trail

With two-thirds of mergers and acquisitions creating no value for shareholders, acquisitive companies need to pay greater attention to planning and implementing their deals

Customer Relationship Management - getting back to basics

Because most CRM implementations fail, companies need to rethink their relationships with customers, says PA Consulting's Ian Murray

Playing to win

The growing emphasis on behavioural skills as a source of competitive business advantage has prompted a new interest in the coaching techniques employed in the sporting arena

Work life balance

Despite their high profile, many companies' work-life balance initiatives have stalled because they comprise discrete projects rather than systemic change