But with everything changing so fast it’s impossible to keep you and your company ahead.
Until now!
Author: Graham Poulter
£25.00
Britain is not the only democracy where the centre is crumbling. France’s centrist government fell over spending cuts, and Germany’s political system has fragmented.
Politics has plunged into incoherence making the public sick of low growth and failing public services, to the extent that public and business are ready to follow any party that lets them vent that frustration.
This government is determined to remove the barriers that have held back Britain's risk-takers for too long. It wants to breathe new life into high streets, support traders, those just starting out, businesses that are ready take the next step and grow.
You are not just SME businesses - you are the nation's innovators, doers, the beating heart of communities, and the backbone of the economy.
To succeed in this current economic environment requires a range of skills and determination to succeed, even when the unexpected seems to occur every week. Undaunted, the two challenges below are typical of the changes which must be tracked, when time is of the essence and competition is increasing.
The convergence of Engineering Technology (ET), Information Technology (IT), and Operational Technology (OT) is no longer just a technical integration – it is a competitive necessity.
This unified approach is delivering measurable business impact: faster time to market, reduced downtime, optimised supply chains, smarter use of resources, and the ability to customise products at scale.
An AI agent is a complex system including AI models, software and cloud infrastructure. For the system to do its thing - summarising your email or spending your money - it needs near total access to your digital life. Your browser history, private messages, credit card details, and location data are all poised to become AI fodder, in an unsecure pile of data.
Researchers have shown that agentic AI can be coaxed into revealing sensitive data or tricked by hackers into taking harmful actions, worse,
the threat to communications privacy is real.
Operating system developers namely Apple, Google and Microsoft are integrating them into the core of their platforms, making them all but mandatory. To put it bluntly, the path towards agentic AI currently being taken leads to elimination of privacy and security.
What's needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents.
The biggest challenge SMEs face is not tech or operational change - its time! Time, that directors and senior management commit every day to produce and deliver quality goods and services.
Under such vital time constraints, to gather critical intelligence would require full-time employment for a senior manager plus an infrastructure for data collection and dissemination. It’s a non-starter for 99% of SMEs!
Our solution is based on the experience of starting a number of companies, from a zero base and ultimately achieving turnover of £143 million, with a team of 268 talented people. (It’s not impossible with the right know-how!)
By monitoring technology and social change, we were able create the world’s first multimedia Internet, which became a listed public company. Plus, numerous other innovative developments to support British industry.
All that experience and knowledge has now been applied to producing a unique reference book with regular printed topic updates, which are designed to impart upskill knowledge to all staff.
This 358 page knowledge tome contains 32 topics, not written in ‘techno-language’, as it is designed to prove that the SME teams at every level can learn and benefit from it! The following is a synopsis of the subjects:
| Section One | Introduction – The World has Changed |
| Section Two |
Ambition / Success / Rewards / Never give in!
Sub-Section One – Grappling uncertainty Sub-Section Two – The impossible is possible Sub-Section Three – Opportunity comes knocking |
There is an option to extend and update the business knowledge for the whole company management team. Sharing the knowledge with all the management team will expand the company skills and engender the will to grow and succeed.
Every quarter we produce a 24-page printed Strategic Management Report for a small subscription which covers the printing and delivery of 10 copies for circulation to key management. Additional copies available on request
By late 2026 ‘Trusted Networks’ will be mandatory for companies to lodge all your data about every element which comprises the components and materials that make up your products.
There will be two models for ‘Trusted Information Networks’ – ‘centralised’ which can be freely accessed, and, ‘decentralised’ which contains the SMEs material sources, manufacturing, and production data, and can only be accessed with specific approved password protection.
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