Inspired by UKTI's Exporting is GREAT initiative to inspire and support an additional 100,000 businesses to trade abroad by 2020, here are my top 10 reasons to expand your business horizons. It's vital to look for new customers overseas as …
Exporters face many communication and leadership challenges, many of which are related to intercultural communication. When Stephen Covey wrote ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ (first published in the 1989) he referred to basic principles of effective personal leadership. …
It's always reassuring to feel that you're part of a group with whom you can share challenges and ideas and best practice. The UKTI team in Japan tends to turn to our colleagues in Korea and Taiwan for that purpose. …
This week, Milan Expo 2015 provided yet another unrivalled opportunity to celebrate the UK offer on a world stage. GREAT Week Sustainability saw hundreds of delegates visit UK House in central Milan. Comprised of British companies, government and multinational corporations …
A blog on showcasing UK innovation at Expo Milan from Carolyn McCall, CEO of easyJet and one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors. Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – from our very beginning almost twenty years ago we have innovated and …
That was the slogan used by PR firm Ogilvy to change international perceptions of Mexico in 2011, when drug cartel wars in the country were at a particularly bad stage. I recently started my role as Head of UK Trade …
Time is money when it comes to exporting. Or is it? This is certainly a Western view about time and reflects the view of cultures where what happens in the present is seen to be of direct consequence to the …
The excellent @SoVeryBritish tweets daily on both the highs and lows of being British – our modesty, hesitation, apologetic nature and preoccupation with two major themes: tea and the weather. Here are some of their observations on ‘typically’ British behaviour: …
There are some signs that information security issues are entering the world news agenda. Bilderberg, the world’s most famous conference on policy and world affairs, has just released the topics on the agenda for this year’s edition. The first two …
Milan Expo 2015 opened on 1 May to a fanfare of ceremony applauding the ambitious theme of the Expo ‘Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life’. Expo brings together 145 countries including 53 national pavilions and, for the first time, ‘clusters’ …
What if a disabled child could gain access to cheap prosthetics that were tailored to their specific needs or workers could investigate a radioactive area without exposing themselves to dangerous levels of radiation? These are just a few fascinating areas …
