By Fiona Portway, Bay Tree VA

At Bay Tree VA our business model is based around our flexibility to client need. Not just to the services they require but us quickly embracing their style of working, adopting new software and getting up to speed with industries that may be new to us.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Jeanette Wheeler, Birketts

The standard 9 to 5 working day has dominated the office-based labour market for years, but could this tradition be coming to an end, and how do existing legal obligations fit with a greater appetite for flexible working practices?
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Lewis Buckley, Credo Asset Finance
It has been a difficult 15 months for most, but Credo Asset Finance has provided support by brokering more than £400m to 8,000 plus local businesses, helping them to invest and achieve their goals of building for the future.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Matt Clarke, LSI Architects
As we emerge from the pandemic and begin to consider how, or even if, we go back to the office, the question we are asking is “what environment do we actually want to return to?

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Emma Harrowing, Norfolk Chambers of Commerce

Think Pokémon cards crossed with Top Trumps and you have a set of business trading cards that you can co.nnect with to do better business.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Elizabeth Pearce, EJ Pearce Limited
COVID has brought many new challenges, opportunities, and the chance to look at life slightly differently. We better understand how life can throw us a curve ball, and for those running businesses, it has made us look inward into our organisation, to find out how we can streamline our operations and cut costs.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By David Clarke, IDSystems

Even though it is not by choice, the past year has seen many Brits spend more time at home than ever before.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Lawrence Chapman, SENDAT

Multi-academy trust and charity, the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Academies Trust (SENDAT), provides special education and specialist provision in the eastern region.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By David Scrivener, Ensors Chartered Accountants

An Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) is a form of employee ownership where a Trust acquires a majority stake in a business on behalf of all employees.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Jon Cunliffe, Charles Stanley Wealth Managers
If there is one thing that many of us wish we could change about the past, it’s quite likely that we wish we had worried less about the future.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Dr Chris Bushby, Big C
As we finally emerge from the pandemic, at Big C we have launched what I can only describe as our most aggressive business plan yet, to provide the very best support for cancer patients and their families in our region.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

In April, companies across Norfolk came together virtually to celebrate the Norfolk Constructing Excellence Awards 2021. This annual event acknowledges the hard work and dedication of construction organisations, individuals and project teams involved in delivering and contributing to the built environment in the region.

By Warren Page, Pagepix

Photography has changed so much in the last 25 years. We are now surrounded by powerful imagery on a daily basis and the latest smart-phone adverts promise to make us into pros with the touch of a finger.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

Newmarket trainer Ilka Gansera-Lévêque of IGL Racing
has joined racing HQ’s dual National Hunt and flat racing fraternity, prompted by a horse that wouldn’t come out of the starting stalls.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Chris Pont, IJYI

IJYI was formed back in 2014 when a colleague and I became frustrated with enterprise software delivery. It was slow, painful, political and incredibly expensive. It was also very non-Agile!

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Pat Lewis, Source One Consulting

Creating agile workspaces certainly isn’t new to the office industry, although, it has become generally more accepted over recent months due to the pandemic.

Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Clare Friel, Friel
Before starting my own business, the word agile was something I only associated with fitness. Yet, recently I have learnt that it has everything to do with business, and more than ever, an agile approach has been key to navigating through the pandemic.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By Carole Burman, MAD-HR
How will we reflect on the learnings for our businesses as we look back over the pandemic-impacted period; how do you assess accomplishment under such unusual and exceptional circumstances?
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021

By James Crosby, Cory Brothers
At the time of writing we are finally, hopefully, emerging from the last tranche of restrictions put in place due to the pandemic, and I am pleased to say that Cory Brothers has never been as busy as it is now.
Published in Norfolk Director Magazine, Summer 2021