As all sectors of the economy rapidly adapt to the digital future to gain a comparative advantage over their competitors, so the Shipping industry has slowly but steadily begun to adopt digital solutions and cutting-edge technology. This is evident in the construction of new ships, cyber security and the use of block chain technology to …
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Factoring and Economic Growth
Factoring is a financial tool used by companies primarily to improve their liquidity, as it provides direct financing based on the volume of sales made by a business. Factoring is a relatively low-risk form of financing for both banks and businesses providing these services. In the UK factoring has another name i.e. receivable finance, invoice …
The Role of Internal Control in the Post-Covid-19 Era
To a significant extent, businesses have taken the right steps to limit as much as possible the negative effects during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to be able to cope with a changing and fluid environment of intense uncertainty that was occurring in front of them. These steps include: Accelerate the digital transformation of the …
The Vision and Direction of Digital Transformation for Banks
The post Covid-19 era has created new data where banks try in various ways through mainly reducing customer service costs and by offering new more profitable products and services. The core of the most necessary digital transformation is the change of mentality in terms of the type of financial contact and the bank-client relationship. The …
Τhe Role of the CFO in the Digital World of Business
Continuous digital upgrading in enterprises to be able to follow any developments in a fluid and ever-changing business environment forces both the financial departments of a company and their CFO to follow and adapt their services to new developments. What the CFO needs to do to succeed in its duties To respond to today’s developments, …
Supply Chain: Achievable Use Cases in SCOR Framework Areas
In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are faced with an increasing degree of difficulty in achieving a high level of service combined with an efficient cost and resource utilization base. One solution is the increasing degree of digitisation of business operations and supply chains. This business strategy is based on a range of …
Maritime Industry: New Shipbuilding or Purchase and Upgrade of Used Ships
Many shipping companies as well as warships of navies of all countries to develop their services and at the same time follow technological developments choose either the construction of new ships (or surface ships and sub-surface sea ships when we refer to a navy) or the acquisition of used ships and the possible upgrading of …
How the Negative Consequences of a Project Can Be Avoided
The post Covid-19 era forces all businesses to adapt to the new reality of revising the way they operate with the goal, first their survival and then create value and goodwill. To achieve these goals, businesses design and then implement transformation projects that include the full range of their business. This is true in both …
The Challenges in the Energy Sector After the Covid-19 Era
All economic activities were adversely affected by the implementation of measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. The same was the case with the energy sector, which has experienced drastically reduced demand, increasing the feeling of uncertainty among shareholders and investors in such companies-energy producers. According to data from the organization International Energy Agency (www.iea.org) during …
The Relation of The Businesses With the “New” Customer After The Covid-19 ERA
The new data launched worldwide after the spread and treatment of the Covid-19 pandemic, among other things, also shape the behaviour of each company’s customers. From a business point of view, therefore, the challenges in terms of their customers portfolio are based on being able to correctly predict which consumer trends and behaviours will last …