Insights

Has the tide turned for UK flotations?

Years of decline have hollowed out London’s listing market, but founders, banks and ministers are quietly pushing for a revival

How to create a culture of innovation

If innovation feels risky, you’re doing it right. Here’s how to turn that risk into reward

How to use innovative thinking to find new opportunities

Roc Nation Sports International has a bold playbook for spotting and seizing global opportunities: be fearless and be comfortable being uncomfortable

How Hollywood stardust turned Wrexham into a business boom town

The 2021 takeover by Hollywood actors kicked off three successive promotions for the football club and boosted the whole community

Meet the UK’s most ambitious businesses

The UK’s fastest-growing companies have lessons for us all but diversity of enterprise and raw ambition are the most striking features of our Growth 500

Inside the turnaround of Marks & Spencer

Stuart Machin’s hands-on leadership has revived M&S, tripling its share price and reshaping its future, by obsessing over the details, from shop floors to staff message boards

Graphene: How Manchester became home to a wonder material

A new generation of engineering companies is emerging in Manchester thanks to the extraordinary strength and elasticity of graphene

Is UK venture capital working?

Amid economic turmoil, questions about the role of VC in the UK and whether it can ever work as well as it does in the US are being asked

A look inside vinyl’s resurgence

Vinyl sales have been rising fast and new technology, including on-demand manufacturing, suggest its growth still has some way to go

The art of business wargaming

Welcome to the world of business wargaming — a powerful tool used by companies to test strategies, foster innovative thinking, and reveal hidden threats

Price wars: Strategies in the battle against inflation

How employee ownership is shaping long-term business strategy