Business Daily

According to sources as diverse as Forbes Magazine in the USA and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution . Whether this is entirely accurate or just the latest media catchphrase is not the point – the important thing is that technology has made fundamental changes to the way businesses operate, and it continues to do so.

In increasingly competitive times, organisations need to evolve at the same rate or risk being left behind. Here, we take a look at five trends that no business can afford to ignore.

1) Content marketing...

The Road Safety Team at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service have been successfully delivering free ‘Biker Down’ workshops across Devon and Somerset since 2015. During this time 501 motorcyclists have completed the workshops.

Each workshop is split into three sessions comprising of: road traffic collision scene management, first aid and the science of being seen. The sessions are designed with bikers in mind and tailored to deliver vital information, plus lifesaving skills in what to do at the scene of any road traffic collision.

The last session also helps to...

Speech and Language Therapists in Exeter have introduced an exciting new approach to help autistic children feel the difference.

Dawn Roberts, a Speech and Language Therapist with Virgin Care’s Devon Integrated Children’s Services, applied for ‘Feel the Difference’ funding to buy special equipment to increase the children’s level of attention and listening skills, increase social communication and improve speech and language skills. And the special equipment? A bucket filled with visually engaging toys. The new therapy approach being introduced by the Exeter and West Devon speech...

The dementia research charity BRACE and Kirby Laing Foundation have together awarded more than £190,000 to the University of Exeter Medical School to support cutting-edge genomic research to better understand the causes of dementia

Kirby Laing has provided £90,000 of funding to support a three-year PhD post in the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group within the Medical School’s world-leading research team that investigates how the way genes are activated influences disease.

Previously, the team has been involved in identifying a number of regions of the genome that are altered...