Category: Analysis

When Reckitt's Chief Executive Kris Licht addressed shareholders this month, he had good news to deliver. Core like-for-like net revenue up 5.2%. Group adjusted operating profit up 5.3%. £2.3 billion returned to shareholders. Results, he said, that came in ahead of expectations.

Ministers are debating whether to build the UK’s digital ID system in-house or hand over to Big Tech. Meanwhile, thousands of retired civil servants are still waiting for their pensions. SAP, Europe's leading enterprise software, already does what the government needs. And the big systems integrators know that. But complexity pays better than clarity