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Guests are less loyal and more demanding than ever before. They use online travel agents (OTAs) and aggregators to find the best hotels and deals – which helps operators fill their rooms, but at a cost.

Too many companies are failing to attract women to top positions, even though mixed-gender leadership teams deliver greater profits. How can we tackle this challenge?

The power of personalisation: Hotels’ roadmap to 2020

Companies that are comfortable with failure are more nimble, innovative and successful, says John Harmeling, chief marketing officer at Grant Thornton in the US

Being entrepreneurial and delivering mid-market sized turnover need not be mutually exclusive. Sweden’s Fontana Food has achieved the best of both worlds

Predicting the future need not be a stab in the dark. There are plenty of practical steps businesses can take to prepare for the challenges ahead.

Every business can benefit from the Internet of Things – just start small and choose wisely when deciding which operations you want to target.

As productivity rates fall, businesses and governments need to find new ways to make inputs work harder if living standards are to be maintained.

To succeed in the B2B sharing economy, businesses need to understand what drives customers who are willing to use crowdsourced and automated services LiquidSpace specialises in renting out spare office space in existing businesses by the hour, the month or longer. Users can hire space via the company’s app and be sitting in a business’s boardroom within minutes. They can add their own office space to the inventory too.

Rising labour costs and the quest for productivity are driving businesses to automate. Finding new roles for redundant workers will be the next challenge.

The hotel industry is going through a period of unprecedented, irreversible change and will look very different in 2020 than it does today.

Poised to be every bit as disruptive as the internet revolution, is your business ready for the rise of the sharing economy?