Using Deviant Behavior to Change Outcomes + MORE

The UK is about to see an overhaul of its work-based pension scheme. The changes have already been made but are being implemented gradually across the space of five years. If you’re in work, you need to know the basics of how your pension is going to change.
What is Auto Enrolment?
Auto enrolment is the newly-applied change to the law regarding your pension…

Harvard Business School grad Angela Newman left a high-paying consulting career to launch her own line of high-tech women’s undergarments. Below, she shares five tips that any start-up CEO can learn from.When Angela Newman was getting an MBA at Harvard in 1994, creating a line of undergarments couldn’t have been further from her mind…

Several years ago I heard a speech I still think about, so it must have been a good one. I thought about it again recently when I had a discussion with someone about “benchmarking” – which is when an organization changes its practices to better mirror those of top performers. As the discussion progressed, I asked them if they had ever heard of “positive deviance…

Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. But according to this devastating Fortune investigation, they can also be useless on a good day and deadly on a bad one — that is, if they were manufactured by Ranbaxy, an Indian drug maker…

Beyond the U.S., these are the places you’ll find financial and other support for innovation in technology.

In an effort to take a pulse of U.S. small businesses and entrepreneurs at the local level, over the last year Dell conducted a nine-city small business “Think Tank” tour.  Here are the findings.

Read the best tips of the week from Entrepreneur.com, from why you should build a prototype early to why you need a team of “front stabbers.”

No matter how long someone has worked for you or how competent they are, everyone makes mistakes. When it comes to loan applications, make sure someone else’s mistake doesn’t cost you or your company.

A survey conducted by Lloyds TSB among smaller businesses in North West England suggests that confidence for the coming year could be on the rise. The banking group spoke to 110 companies in the region, and found that many of them believe that then situation in Europe and at home will improve.

42% of the businesses Lloyds spoke to said that they believe that orders over the first six months of 2013 will go up, while just 13% believe the opposite may be the most likely outcome…

When you’re trying to get a loan to grow your business, is it better to borrow from a bank or a private lender? Here are some pros and cons of each to consider.

Every company dreads one word above all others – even the word ‘lawsuit’. What would that horrible word be? Audit.
Even the thought that an audit could come about makes business owners cringe. People have different ideas of what happens. The reality can be far less traumatic than the whispered rumors…