The Insider Dealmakers Awards is the biggest night in the Yorkshire
corporate calendar, with nearly 1,000 people set to take part at the
event at Savile’s at the Royal Armouries on 27 November.
Insider’s monthly look at development opportunities in key towns and
cities around the region has proved very popular reading, particularly
as we return to the same cities and towns at the same time each year to
see what progress has been made.
Insider research has shown many of our readers are directors who are
heavily involved in staff management issues in their company.
With stock markets around the world going through nervous times,
seemingly impregnable banks suddenly no longer appearing to be a safe
haven for your cash, and house prices sliding, a reliable guide to what
to do with your hard-earned money could never be more timely.
Insider’s regular analysis of how the three city regions in Yorkshire
are performing has become required reading over the past few months.
Insider research has shown that office relocations are something many
of our readers are actively involved in considering. One of the main
factors influencing such decisions are how well suited any new location
is for good transport links. This is even more prevalent if businesses
are seeking distribution or warehousing premises. Many parts of
Yorkshire are well situated near major motorways and rail links.
Periods of economic uncertainty such as we are going through at the
moment will inevitably be causing some companies to wonder whether they
wouldn’t be better off in another office – either to rationalise on
costs, in preparation for any downturn, or because they think they
could get a better deal in a buyer’s market.
Insider research continues to show that many of our readers are heavily
involved in human resource issues in their company – including working
out what resources are necessary to ensure they staff can carry out
their work effectively, and what perks might be wise to encourage them
to outperform.
When they were introduced at the end of the last decade, customer
relationship management system (CRM) systems were widely marketed as a
kind of panacea for a sales organisation, making all manner of previous
contact databases and sales recording systems obsolete.
Insider regularly runs detailed reports into key sectors of the
regional economy to see how they are performing. In the run-up to
Christmas we have regularly looked at the retail sector, and this year,
with clouds gathering on the economic horizon, it seems fitting to do
so again.
