Perspective on business structure, ownership, geography, capital, protection and succession — written to provoke better questions, not prescribe generic answers.
Businesses evolve. Structures often don't. A question about whether yesterday's architecture still serves tomorrow's business.
READ INSIGHT →Business may feel borderless. The legal, commercial and regulatory world surrounding it remains attached to place.
READ INSIGHT →Creating wealth and preserving what success has created are different disciplines.
READ INSIGHT →Making a profit is an achievement. Deciding what that profit should do next is a strategy.
READ INSIGHT →Identity and architecture are not the same thing. British roots can coexist with wider commercial capability.
READ INSIGHT →Founders decide what their business should become. Eventually there is another question: who should it become for?
READ INSIGHT →Change carries risk. So does standing still. The status quo is a decision too.
READ INSIGHT →Simple is usually better. Until simple stops being enough. Complexity should have to justify itself.
READ INSIGHT →Good structuring begins with commercial purpose. Sometimes the answer is change. Sometimes it is to leave well alone. The value lies in knowing the difference.
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