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Death and taxes – the causal link in UK retailing?

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on August 20, 2018
  • Business Rates

In the 2018 the number of retail closures and examples of retailers in distress has taken many by surprise. The Centre for Retail Research data shows that this year 27 retail companies have failed, 1,965 […]

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Are your people P.E.O.P.L.E.?

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on August 13, 2018August 13, 2018
  • Retail

August is for many people a quieter work month or one where you take some well-deserved holiday, farmers excepted! As such I thought I would pen a few words on one of my passions in […]

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Why Westminster can’t save the UK high street

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on July 4, 2018July 4, 2018
  • Retail

Guest blog by Bill Grimsey. First appeared in Daily Telegraph on 4th July 2018 when #GrimseyReview2 was launched at the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham, UK. Matthew Hopkinson was a co-author. The review is […]

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Who is leading change in your organisation – technology, data or people?

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on June 22, 2018
  • Data

The answer should be people leading change empowered by technology and data. The reality is that in many organisations people are not sufficiently skilled to harness the power of technology or data to make decisions. […]

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Data science and technology is identifying the needs for over a million Electric Vehicles in the UK

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on May 24, 2018
  • Retail

This is a guest blog by Alice Goudie from Emu Analytics, a massively innovative and capable company in London, that shows how data science, mapping and analysis will help drive a better world. “By 2020 […]

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Data In Action That Is Creating A Vibrant Belgian Town

  • by matthewh
  • Posted on May 17, 2018
  • Retail

In 2013 I was involved in co-authoring The Grimsey Review – An alternative future for our high streets. Again in 2018 we are doing #GrimseyReview2 which will look at the first review 5 years on […]

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