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Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses talks about some successful entrepreneurs and what sets them apart.

This report draws on insight from our International Business Report, plus data and interviews from Grant Thornton teams around the world. It explores what skills the boards of 2025 will need, and what needs to happen between now and then to get there. Businesses should not view these changes we have identified as additional extras.e

Whilst 2015 marked a recent peak in global M&A transactions with US$ 3.8 trillion deals, the highest since 2007, there was some diversity in the geographical markets which will be of interest to both vendors and acquirors.

The gender agenda and the benefits of having a diverse board and workplace has long been studied, yet we still see no significant change.

Drawing on data and insight from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, this report considers the outlook for the global economy in 2016 and explores UAE trends for 2016.

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.

Fifty years on from the world’s first personal computer going into mass production, the Grant Thornton International Business Report reveals the scale of technology’s influence on business with the majority of firms now planning to automate operations and practices, potentially resulting in job losses.

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?

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses talks about nanotechnology and the future of technology.

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses talks about the opportunities arising in the UAE.

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses talks about the growth of DIFC during the past decade.

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses talks about the how family managed businesses need to embrace the ever changing environment.

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses discusses the year ahead for the UAE economy.

Hisham Farouk, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, a leading global advisor to family-owned businesses shares his thoughts on the recent Expo 2020 win.