{"id":1751,"date":"2017-03-06T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:59:11","slug":"calls-smes-embrace-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/calls-smes-embrace-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for SMEs to embrace new technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is the key to successful growth for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), new research suggests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the 2016 International Data Corporation (IDC) report, SMEs that embraced new technology last year grew at a much quicker rate than their less tech-friendly competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which quizzed more than 3,000 UK SMEs, also found that more than a third (39 per cent) of firms felt that active participation in the so-called \u2018digital economy\u2019 would be essential to their business\u2019 survival in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Separate research carried out by software provider SAF last year revealed that an increasing number of UK SMEs are growing reliant on social media to attract new clients and customers.<\/p>\n<p>Their survey found that 100 per cent of SMEs now use social media as a tool to aid business growth, while almost a third (29 per cent) of firms use three or more social media channels to target a wider client base with their products and services.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a study commissioned by Barclays Business, which was recently highlighted in <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, suggests that the majority of British SMEs believe that embracing \u2018better technology\u2019 is essential to business growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is the key to successful growth for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), new research suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}