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In any industry, when you start to look for the right product or service for your needs, the obvious place to start is the biggest of the big names, the omnipresent providers and organisations that you’re always hearing about. It’s a natural place to start your search, whether you’re deciding on where to have lunch,…

“Candidate Led Market”. “Candidate Driven Market”. You’ve read and heard both of these phrases a lot over the last few years, and you’re going to keep hearing them over the next few. The recruitment market in 2016 is proving to be even more candidate-led than ever. Finding  and hiring exceptional candidates will continue to be a challenge with salaries and counter offers…

The stature and visibility of GRC continued to grow over the last year. Accenture’s 2016 Compliance and Risk Study concludes that GRC had gained a “seat at the table and a mandate to lead” but was now at a crossroads where Senior Management needs to see strong results making it clear that GRC can be…

Once it was only an issue for international big name businesses, but cyber security is now a key risk for every company. The 2015 Information Security Breaches Survey revealed that 90% of large organisations in the UK and 74% of small businesses had a security breach in the previous year, and across all sizes and…

The “Chief Risk Officer” is a recent invention, James Lam is widely credited with creating the term in the early 90s, and for much of the time, we’ve had Chief Risk Officers they’ve been seen as overbearing protective figures, restricting growth through extreme risk aversion in the name of stopping anyone from getting into too…

It’s been a rough couple of years for the information security industry. Following breach after high security breach, the top news story in the info sec world for the last year has been that the sector has slid into a big skills shortage, and the situation shows no sign of improving. In April of last…

IFRS 9, the new International Financial Reporting Standard, will replace IAS 39 when it comes into effect in January 2018. IFRS 9 was issued in July 2014, following several years of revision and negotiation between the Financial Accounting Standards Board and International Accounting Standards Board. During the financial crisis of 07/08, IAS 39 drew a…

Many of you reading this will be familiar with Kind Consultancy as a disruptive Executive Search firm, headhunting the very best talent for your permanent middle, senior and board-level positions, but something that’s just as central to what we do is delivering Interim resource for business-critical roles and projects alike. Over the last 3 and…

So many discussions about the Internet of Things focus on the potential effects on business, the home or transport, but IoT could soon reshape so many different aspects of modern life. Outside of technology, one of my own greatest interests is sport, and even at this early stage of IoT development, we’re seeing a number…

The Internet of Things is one of the most exciting areas in technology right now, and one that continues to develop and expand at an incredible rate. I’ve written before about my hopes for IoT and the question of how soon we’re going to see it transform modern living – I think it’s definitely going…