by Trevor Wilkinson | Nov 11, 2022 | Business, Legislation/politics
When I started writing this piece, we were on to our fourth Prime Minister in six years. But now I have to go back and add another one, our fifth PM in six years. As the great Oscar Wilde might have said, for the Conservatives to lose one Prime Minister may be...
by Trevor Wilkinson | Nov 15, 2019 | Business, Legislation/politics
Like a particularly annoying earworm, the subject of trust (or, to be more precise, a lack of trust) has been preying on my mind in the last few months. For example, trust was a theme running through a training course my company was giving on desk research best...
by Trevor Wilkinson | Feb 6, 2019 | Business, Legislation/politics, Uncategorised
One of the interesting recent trends, seen in a range of business sectors, has been a movement away from prescriptive, rules-based regulation towards a lighter touch approach by regulators. Often this lighter touch will involve regulators requiring that suppliers in...
by Claire Labrum | Jan 2, 2018 | Business, Legislation/politics
Shiona Davies recently presented the findings of some work BDRC and Ultimate Finance have conducted amongst SMEs at the MRS Financial Services Conference. The project looked at data both pre and post the Brexit referendum to understand how SMEs are responding to the...
by Jon Wood | May 8, 2017 | Legislation/politics, Respondents
This month Jon Wood of Critical Research reviews a recent Forum session which dealt with the implications of the new GDPR legislation – and muses on the implications (and urgency) for us all. April’s BIG forum was an excellent session, focussing on an impending...