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There are lots of factors that contribute to food innovation and yearly trends. In order to gain a full understanding, and apply those locally or within a niche market, you need to understand the macro factors that are influencing food innovation. A Focus On Long Term Health Traceability: Sourcing & Production Awareness Social Responsibility: Waging War On Food Waste & Unnecessary Packaging Globalisation & Travel: A Search For New & Under-Explored Flavours Digital Innovation: Food At Our Fingertips Convenience: Easy But Not Speedy Home Cooking Solutions Read more …. https://www.foodstarsuk.com/commercial-kitchens-for-rent/food-innovation-six-secrets/ The post 6 Food Trends Driving Food Innovation appeared first on [...]

How customer experience drives digital transformation Digital transformation offers organizations an opportunity to understand the modern-day buyer, engage with them and deliver on their expectations of a multi-channel customer experience. To help you succeed, here are three ways to help your business to get started with digital transformation: An agile, flexible IT environmentOrganizations recognize the need for implementing agile systems and 86% of businesses believe that cloud technology is critical to digital transformation.The cloud enables companies to be fast, dynamic and flexible  – giving your organization the ability to test new projects that are cost-effective and low-risk – allowing you to [...]

Banbridge Enterprise welcomed all the LIME projects partners to Banbridge, Northern Ireland for the kick-off meeting of the project. It was a highly productive meeting around a topic of significant importance, not just in the UK but across Europe.  Ciaran from Banbridge Enterprise was the Chair for the meeting ensuring everyone had their input and the meeting progressed as per the Agenda. The meeting facilitated the discussion of the partners roles and responsibilities within the project and their aims and views of Lean Innovation. The tangible results of the project will include: IO1 Formative Self-Assessment Tool. This online, interactive diagnostic tool [...]

The EU defines the Silver Economy as “the sum of all economic activity that serve the needs of people aged 50 and over, including the products and services they purchase directly and the further economic activity this spending generates.” It stretches across all sectors (public and private) of the economy, including health and nutrition, leisure and well-being, finance and transport, housing, education and employment. Spoiler alert: the silver economy is huge…and growing. A European Commission study conducted by Technopolis and Oxford Economics estimated a baseline value of €3.7 trillion for Europe’s Silver Economy in 2015, measured primarily as private expenditure by [...]

Top 3 Trends in Digital Innovation Pretty much every company today is developing their digital competency, knowing that success is based on their ability to design new technologies that deliver personalized experiences and innovative services to employees, customers, and ecosystem partners. But how are organizations setting themselves apart when ‘going digital’ is no longer enough? And what are the main trends shaping digital innovation that companies need to address to survive in the post-digital era? What is Digital Innovation? At its core, digital innovation is the application of new technologies to existing business problems and practices in a process that takes [...]

Being a socially responsible business often involves higher material and labour costs. But there is a business case to be made for being a good corporate citizen. In a competitive labour market, employees are drawn to companies that have a good track record for responsible behaviour, such as environmental protection. By being a good role model, a company will attract people who have skills such as innovativeness, leadership and the ability to work in teams. And by treating employees responsibly, costly employee turnover is minimized. It is also good for a business to stand out from the crowd—for the right reasons [...]

Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) in Turku and Vaasa, Finland is an internationally acknowledged research university with an extensive responsibility for preserving the Swedish educational and cultural heritage as the only Swedish-speaking multi-disciplinary university in Finland. Due to the Swedish language and the university’s location on the South-West and West coast, ÅAU also serves as a bridge for collaboration in research and education between Finland and other Nordic states. ÅAU employs 1,200 staff and provides high quality education to 5,500 undergraduate and 780 postgraduate students, of whom 500 postgraduate students (64%) are awarded Masters Degrees and around 70 students (9%) graduate with [...]

New Phone App Seeks to Help Businesses Navigate their Way through Crises As the tourism industry in many countries is starting to move into what is hoped is a post-pandemic recovery phase there will undoubtedly be structural and managerial readjustments for many businesses as they try to ensure that they are more resilient and able to adapt to future crises. West Highland College UHI’s Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research (CRTR) has recently been awarded funding aimed at addressing this issue. The centre will work with both academic and business partners in Spain, Ireland, Germany, Denmark and Iceland in a three-year [...]