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Handling Client Review Meetings - a practical guide

Forming your Business Review Process in a repeatable, impactful way, is key to maintaining healthy relationships with your key customers. This guide from Andrea Spillman-Gajek gives you tips on preparing for the review, what do during the review and how to follow-up for maximal impact.

Factories don’t run on machines alone: the $1 Trillion skills gap in manufacturing

Factories are evolving, but without a workforce enablement layer, the machines won’t matter. Let’s fix that before production grinds to a halt. We explore the market for learning and work solutions tackling this important problem.

Trust, Depth, Speed: what if that’s the AI moat?

AI hype is cooling, features are easy to copy, and the big platforms move fast. So where’s the real edge?

Executive Business Reviews (EBR) - 101

Running an effective Executive Business Review with your key clients can make or break your vital customer relationships. Andrea Spillman-Gajek helps you get them right.

AI stocks faltered, exposing a human skills gap

Recent stumbles in AI company shares led to some suggestions that AI hype is over-egged and that the consequences for the workforce may be lower than initially expected. We disagree. Learning holds the key to its effective use and wider proliferation across our economies.

Brighteye Recommends: The $200bn blue collar staffing market ripe for AI disruption

We enjoyed reading Michael Stothard's article outlining firstminute capital's blue collar thesis. We wanted to add our spin, given the work we did earlier in the year on AI hiring tools.

Could a U.S. Government program deliver education technology breakthroughs?

In a Sidekick exclusive, Ed Metz and Eric Tucker dive into the effectiveness and success of a US Government program designed to catalyse education and learning breakthroughs.

Research Tools: breaching new frontiers

Research is a powerful driver of progress, helping us explore and understand the unknown, build new knowledge, and solve complex problems. We dive into how tools used in scientific, technical and academic research are evolving, including a market map.

Winning in the US: how European startups can scale across the Atlantic

Winning in the US, the latest guide from Index Ventures, offers a clear, strategic framework to navigate this leap. Based on deep research, founder interviews, and hard-won lessons from 500+ venture-backed companies, the guide presents five proven archetypes for US expansion and shows how to choose the right one for your startup. We summarise the key takeaways!