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As part of an on-going upgrade of health services in the area, the Niagara Health System is on the verge of completing a state-of-the-art new hospital for the St Catharines area. Jane McCallion talks to chief planning and development officer Gloria Kain to discover how you turn one million square feet of building into one million square feet of care.

Scotland’s energy minister Fergus Ewing has announced a new £103 million investment fund designed to drive the growth of renewable energy in Scotland.

The Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF) will initially focus on supporting communities and rural businesses to develop their own local renewable projects. It will also support district heating, and wave and tidal developers with the development and deployment of array projects.

American “retail treat” brand Dairy Queen opened its 500th franchise in China this week, and plans another hundred before the end of this year.

The 500th DQ restaurant is located in the Hu Dong finance district in Shanghai, and is operated by Shanghai Shida Catering Management Company, which already has more than 350 Dairy Queen sites throughout southern and eastern China.

Afric Oil, South Africa’s first BEE oil company, is embarking on a strategy to achieve security of supply and growth in the marketplace, as finance director Mangadi Dikotla explains to Gay Sutton.

What is the silent killer of American entrepreneurs, and what does DNA have to do with it? Joe Abraham explains.

A recent study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a troubling trend. The study found that the number of self-employed individuals in the US has shrunk by 2.1 million since 2006. What’s driving this trend? What does it mean for entrepreneurship? Most importantly, how is this decline impacting our economy?

There are three broad imperatives that organizations are striving to implement in order to meet the changing needs of the business and enable global growth.
These are:
Creating global leverage
Making decisions with better/broader information
Enabling agile execution.

Deeply held misconceptions about globalization, information and agility are holding organizations back from making necessary adaptations. In contrast, our empirical data illustrates the true state of business services as they exist at thousands of companies today.

Andrew Kinder of Infor explains everything you ever wanted to know about ERP but were too afraid to ask.

Just what is ERP?

ERP is an abbreviation for ‘enterprise resource planning’. It is simply an integrated IT system which translates business management practices and the core business processes of an organisation ‘into’ modern technology and vice versa.

Rob Greenslade of Centralis discusses the impact of cloud transformation in the desktop environment and warns of the dangers in adopting ‘bargain’ fixed-price DaaS offerings.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has secured a £600 million bond issue to help finance the city’s Crossrail project.

The bonds will be issued in association with Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets—the first time for 17 years that a local authority has gone to the capital markets for finance in this way.

Interim CEO Jay Richardson talks to Gay Sutton about four months of change and improvement at Liberty Mines, and why the time is right for a new CEO to take the business forward as a successful nickel exploration and mining operation.

Simon Kent, head of operations at Harrogate International Centre in the UK, considers sustainability in the events industry.

Rakesh Rao, CEO of Crown Berger Kenya Ltd, East Africa’s largest paint maker, talks to Jayne Flannery about maintaining the company’s leading position in the region.