How strategy, strategic communications and stakeholder engagements can help mitigate the risks and turbulence of 2025.
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Global Transformation in 2025: Five Strategic Imperatives for Visionary Leaders
Five trends to look out for in 2025, from the development of a multipolar world and the rise of quantum computing to ESG and digital transformation trends. Strategy, strategic communications and stakeholder engagement will help businesses grow.
Navigating the Social Media Landscape in 2025: Audiences Are Retreating Into Siloes
Battenhall released its 2025 ‘The Year Ahead In Social’ report, which highlighted the rise in ‘dark social’ as a channel that people continue to move towards in a hyper-polarised environment. People want relevance and authenticity from brands that engage with them. Going siloed is becoming a trend.
Strategic Industrial Transformation: Unlocking the UK's Global Competitiveness Through Innovation and Collaborative Growth
Consultation on the UK’s new Industrial Strategy has closed. What is needed is the establishment of a culture of collaboration that unlocks the value in the innovation that ranks us fifth in the global innovation index. Business executives need to reposition themselves if they are to benefit from the high-tech future being designed by the new Labour government.
How News Avoidance Is Reshaping Reputation Strategy: Critical Insights for Business Leaders, Investors, and Government Decision-makers
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published an article this week that discussed the growing trend of news avoidance amongst specific audience groups. The establishment of ‘news avoidance’ is having a profound implication not just for governments but also for businesses and their efforts to build and manage their reputations.
BBC Cuts to Hardtalk and Newsnight: How Axing Respected Journalism Damages the UK’s Global Reputation and Media Ecosystem
The BBC announced earlier this week that its Hardtalk show, presented by Stephen Sackur and broadcast on the BBC News Channel in the UK and internationally on BBC World News, was being axed.
While the BBC is in a difficult place because of its treatment by the previous Conservative government, who held the view that the license fee was outdated and biased against them, as a public service broadcaster, cutting respected news and journalism programmes is creating an environment that damages the UK and its image and reputation abroad.
How to fix the misunderstandings of strategy
Every company, government and investor has a strategy. Every organisation will have hundreds of strategies, but many of these guiding documents are not strategies. Many are not even aligned with a vision or destination but are instead a collection of tactical activities that fail to deliver true value. Here are some tips to help unlock strategic rewards.
The importance of strategic stakeholder engagement: More than who you know
strategic stakeholder engagement is more than who you know. It is about strategy and knowing the route to delivering positive outcomes. The skills needed are complex, but vital in today's business, investment and political world.
X's Yacarinno tells advertisers, we'll sue if you don't advertise!
In a weird video posted on X, Linda Yacarinno says that they are suing companies that have chosen not to advertise on a channel that has become too toxic for them. For some odd reason, they are spending money on legal counsel rather iterating a product upward from what Musk has sabotaged.