Boyden Ireland Interim Management Insights

In a gig economy, we have gig leaders. So how are they different? And why do our clients depend on them?

Nick Robeson, Managing Partner of Boyden UK, explains what drives today’s ‘gig leader’.

Claire Lauder attended Cranfield University's National Manufacturing Debate 2019, an annual conference bringing manufacturing professionals together from various sectors to discuss and debate current challenges facing the industry. 

Millers Oils offers vast opportunities, an equal voice and shares in the business. Manufacturing has never looked so good.

The misconception of manufacturing is still rife across the UK and everyone connected to the sector either running businesses or providing services to the sector, have a duty to play a small part in busting the myths

With discussions around digitalisation and technology at the Digital Manufacturing Week conference, the biggest challenge in the future will be creating a culture where employees feel empowered to drive transformation. 

I attended a fascinating panel discussion hosted by Unity Trust Bank (thank you Margaret Willis) with a focus on "profit with purpose". The impressive panel included Dr Rebecca Harding, Virginia Mead-Herbert, Chrysta Poppitt and Alison Reid. The discussion was around centred around #profitwithpurpose i.e. a socially responsible and profitable business model, but the subject matter encompassed all number of issues faced by women in the workforce. The speakers brought to life not only hard data on gender inequality in the workplace, but coupled this with rich life experience stories and words of wisdom. Female progression within the workplace is impacted by the culture of the organisation and gender bias both positive and negative. Overwhelmingly the panel, endorsed by the audience, want to see promotion on merit rather than a quota filling exercise in the workplace. ‘Progression on merit’ is impacted significantly by the company having a more open culture, which includes