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With over 5 million small and medium sized businesses in the UK and around 500,000 new businesses starting every year, it is clear a vibrant SME sector is critical to the long term economic growth and prosperity in the UK. It is widely reported that SMEs grow two to three times faster if they embrace the digital economy and utilise the digital tools widely available. However 1.2m SMEs in the UK do not yet see the benefit of adopting digital.

One of the most profound and well documented gaps in entrepreneurship is the gender gap. Not only are women less likely to have entrepreneurial intentions, those who do become entrepreneurs are less likely to succeed, attract investment, and scale. As a result, only four per cent of visible UK […]

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5 top challenges for small businesses undergoing digital transformation

September 2019

Companies that go through a digital transformation usually will gain increased customer engagement, higher market share, better employee morale and higher revenue. There are some challenges associated with digitisation of a small business, which partially depends on the level of digitisation, the size of the […]

Meet the new Digital Leaders Wales Chair, Cwrdd â Chadeirydd newydd Arweinwyr Digidol Cymru – Karen Lewis

August 2019

Digital Leaders Wales have recently appointed a new chair of the regional programme. Meet Karen Lewis Karen spent the first part of her career in education and community development before moving into the field participatory media. She was founder Producer of the BBC’s award- winning […]

A Digital Week in June

July 2019

My recent blogs on the Digital Leaders platform seem to have been thank you messages. This is particularly appropriate as our community, which grew by 16,055 to 112,000 during Digital Leaders Week 2019, has proven itself once again to be so positive and giving. Someone […]

Webinar Recording: Stepping into digital, ideas to kickstart your journey

June 2019

Pilotlight is a charity that connects business mentors with charitable organisations to unlock solutions that help charities become more effective and sustainable. Listen to this webinar to hear their stories of taking the first steps of applying digital in the organisation, and discuss the better ways […]

Webinar Recording: Digital Age Leadership Practitioner

June 2019

Are you a change manager, project manager, HR/OD practitioner, leadership coach or mentor? The Dilyn Way, along with the Dilyn profiling/assessment tool has supported close to 1,000 people globally in “Digital Age Leadership” – a driver of digital transformation. Listen to this webinar to hear […]

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