集团首席执行官伊丽莎白•维加OBE Informed Solutions
任何肤色的政府都拥有制定政策的特权. 鉴于过去15年来所有国家都面临的挑战, 首先是全球金融危机, 许多人会认识到我们需要大胆, 进步, 雄心勃勃的, 转型政策. 促进, 使精力充沛, 并维持经济, 整个英国城市地区的增长和生产力.
众所周知，中小企业是英国经济的支柱, 中型和规模化企业是创新的引擎室, 增长与国际贸易. 英国的5个.5100万家中小企业代表99.英国9%的企业，雇佣了61%的劳动力，贡献了2英镑.对英国经济贡献了4万亿英镑(53%). 因此, common sense suggests that leveraging SMEs and 扩大 businesses is key to the UK’s prosperity, 增长, 经济恢复力, 全球竞争力.
英国需要一批优秀企业. 挑战现有市场并使其更加多样化的业务, 有竞争力的, 有弹性的, 和生产. 有抱负的企业, 拥有成长的心态, 这通过创造高价值的就业机会在经济上做出贡献, 将创新产品和服务商业化, 从而增加英国的国际贸易.
If we shape great policy that builds great businesses then we also shape an economy that encourages and 激励 UK entrepreneurs, SMEs and 扩大 companies to build the successful small businesses that are an important part of our 当地社区, 这就变成了中型的, 未来的大企业和出口商. Great policy that encourages SMEs to invest and grow will create skilled employment opportunities across 当地社区; businesses that more willingly adopt technology and better train their staff; and stronger more globally 有竞争力的 industries across our regions. Great businesses also tend to give back to the communities from which they grow.
There is a very real ‘Valley of Death’ for companies that are disproportionately burdened by government regulations and unnecessarily difficult or complex trading conditions. Businesses have not yet finished navigating through the long and sustained period of financial, 健康, energy and economic challenges that started with the global financial crisis of 2008.
作为一名企业家和经济学家, I am faithful to the concept that common sense should have no colour when it comes to matters of business and the economy. 增加成本, bureaucracy and increasing burdensome regulations will be enormously detrimental to the recovery and 增长 of UK businesses, 因此对我们的经济也是如此.
对小公司来说太难是没有意义的, 中型和规模化公司经营具有竞争力, 盈利的业务. 阻止企业家努力工作是没有意义的, 承担个人和财务风险, 承担债务, 投资创新, 招聘更多员工, 提高员工的技能, 扩大业务规模, 把他们的产品和服务带到新的国际市场!
Great policy balances the harsh realities and hard work of running and 扩展 up a company with incentives that encourage ambition, 投资, 冒险和毅力. This is especially important in key sectors, which often require significant 投资 in R&D, 高价值技能和能力发展, 随着业务的增长，监管合规的负担也越来越重.
作为创始人, 我和我的管理团队建立了一个成功的企业, 有弹性的, 拥有可扩展的数字化运营模式, 能否根据市场情况和机会进行多样化调整, 是否能够在需要时筹集资金, and has successfully navigated more than three decades of UK and global economic cycles.
作为领导者, 我相信“什么对蜂巢有好处”的原则, 对蜜蜂和我们人类都是一个大蜂巢的一部分有好处吗, evidenced independently with a 97% rating in “Great Places to Work” – being in the top 1% of employers globally. Informed Solutions是一家中型国际企业, 总部设在大全球最大的博彩平台, 获两项“皇后创新大奖”及三项“世界创新大奖”, 技术和服务联盟奖. 因此, I offer these opinions based on considerable lived experience as an entrepreneur which started, built and grew their business internationally over 30+ years and 4 UK governments of different colours.
在我看来, 可持续增长的关键推动因素是激励雄心勃勃的员工, 扩展, 成功的企业和耐心的资本投资者. 经济增长的主要障碍是沉重的, 不必要的复杂法规消耗了生产力, 不鼓励努力工作, 取消对冒险和商业成功的奖励. 我特别希望看到大胆, 进步 government policy that 激励 companies to recruit and build skills (competent, 自信, better paid staff); adopt digital capabilities (more productive, 扩大 ready businesses); demonstrate responsible and sustainable business practices (because ethics and behaviours matter) that create social value as well as economic value; and grow businesses into international markets to increase the UK’s global 有竞争力的ness.
我们的国家和地区经济, 当地社区, 未来的繁荣依赖于伟大的企业. 当然，英国颂扬这些罕见的独角兽. 同样重要的是, 我们需要建立更广泛的, stronger and more 有弹性的 economic foundations for sustainable development and 增长. 这意味着, 鼓励企业家, 投资者和扩大规模的企业，以填补“缺失的中间”.e. we need more small companies to successfully grow into mid-sized 和大 businesses.
我对新一届政府的期望是，他们要大胆创造, 鼓励进步的政策, 激励, 庆祝和奖励所有伟大的英国企业的成功-创业, 扩大, small, 媒介, 和大.
我希望常识是没有色彩的.
