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Finance professionals certainly know all about this issue, but business leaders and their teams need to understand it too. And those who build digital-twin business models for them should appreciate the big “answer” that a whole-business model can provide.

A fund management business faced collapse, after some years of successful and profitable growth. (These companies invest your cash in equities and bonds to grow your wealth, often through pensions or other investment products. They mostly sell those products through brokers or financial advisors).

If you think about how clients choose you, how people join your organisation or how you choose suppliers, very often your answer will include a healthy amount of trust.  In a digital age, building trust is becoming more challenging with the level of misinformation and misleading claims and content wherever you turn. 

  With the new gold rush toward AI are you chasing the gold or selling the shovels? History tells us the shovel sellers did a brilliant piece of rock solid (pardon the pun) business, while a handful of gold prospectors hit the big time, while most gold prospectors were left broke and disillusioned.

In high‑pressure, male‑dominated environments conversations about wellbeing often focus on safety, fatigue and operational risk. But there’s a quieter, often overlooked factor influencing performance, retention and team dynamics, Menopause and Midlife Wellbeing. For many organisations, this isn’t yet seen as a business issue…..but it is one. Although many have yet to address this as a business issue, its impact is evident across sites and project teams.

Excel had its 40th birthday last year. It is the most used software (outside of Outlook) and some teams live in Excel day in day out. In fact looking up the statistics Microsoft say there are over a billion users of Excel. I have personally been delivering Excel training for over 30 years and seen it change from Excel 4 – single sheet files to its current form.