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With the anticipated ending of Covid-19 restrictions towards the end of June, many leaders, businesses, and teams are asking themselves what they want the ‘new normal’ to look like. As restrictions on working in offices and

IR35 in Transformation is an interesting topic.  Transformation and Change typically sits outside Business as Usual. Historically organisations have relied heavily on consultancy, interim, or contingent support to take them through peaks and troughs of transformation,

Norman Broadbent plc (LON:NBB) is a leading Professional Services firm offering five interrelated Talent Acquisition & Advisory Services: Board & Leadership/Executive Search, Senior Interim Management, Research & Insight, Leadership Consulting & Assessment, and executive level Recruitment

Norman Broadbent plc (LON:NBB) is a leading Professional Services firm offering five interrelated Talent Acquisition & Advisory Services: Board & Leadership/Executive Search, Senior Interim Management, Research & Insight, Leadership Consulting & Assessment, and executive level Recruitment

Whilst browsing through my usual newsfeeds, I was intrigued by the perspective presented by both McKinsey and MIT that organisations need to harness Digital differently in Board-level decisions if they want to gain a competitive edge

Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance is firmly in the spotlight. Yet for many Boards this is a complex subject.  Shareholders and investors – but equally important – employees and customers, want to work for/buy from organisations

April 6th 2021 is a date which has been cemented in the calendar for the a last 12 months for interims and employers alike. The implementation of IR35 by HMRC is widely viewed as a negative change,

Market Review As you might expect of a utility service, the telecoms industry has come through 2020 relatively unscathed, The market for IT systems supporting telecoms providers barely declined in 2020 and is returning to low

Norman Broadbent plc (LON:NBB) is a leading Professional Services firm offering five interrelated Talent Acquisition & Advisory Services: Board & Leadership/Executive Search, Senior Interim Management, Research & Insight, Leadership Consulting & Assessment, and executive level Recruitment

In 2021, the use of data is very much in the public eye. Awareness has been growing for a while, with consumer habits shifting from automatically ticking the ‘all cookies’ box to much more of an

Diversity on Boards is, and quite rightly continues to be, a hot topic. With the news last month that there was not a single CEO, CFO or Chair from an ethnic minority background on the boards

This month, Clare Nash, Director at Norman Broadbent Group interviews Andrew McMellin, ex CEO of Pioneer Underwriters. Having started his career 30+ years ago as a broker, Andrew went on to have a successful career in

Despite enjoying enormous investment, supporting significant wealth, and attracting considerable entrepreneurial activity, the real estate sector was slow to invest in digitisation and the adoption of future facing technology. But not anymore. Like many sectors the

As we learn more and increasingly adopt the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), how much do we really know about where it came from – and what it can do for us? 1. AI: is not

For many of us in the UK, the announcement of ‘Lockdown Three’ in early January was met with quiet resignation. Here we go again, we thought. Plus ca change.  There was not much new – aside from it being grimmer

Working in large-scale asset-based industries – such as energy, utilities, transport or manufacturing – it is universally accepted that operational leadership plays a critical part in overall business performance. In each of these industries we often

After a bruising 12 months, the Consumer sector is (understandably) reluctant to celebrate the return of ‘normality’ – be that the ‘old normal’, the ‘new normal’ or the ‘next normal’ – just yet. However, despite the

The landscape Norman Broadbent’s Change & Transformation practice are starting to hear increasingly positive market noise regarding implementation of post Covid-19 initiatives with a growing number of companies, now looking to overcome transformation challenges brought on