All articles by Mark Allan
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InsightIs your business fit for tomorrow?
How do you successfully grow a business and make it future-proof? Every reader will have their own idea about this, but I’m sure we can all agree that to be future winners in our sector we’re going to have to be more progressive and challenge what have become industry, or ...
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InsightInnovation must serve customers
A lot has happened in the nearly three years since I stepped down as chief executive of Unite Students to take up the same position at St Modwen and it is an interesting time to reflect on some of the themes I have experienced and observed.
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Insight2019 forecast: Mark Allan (St Modwen)
After nearly three years of self-inflicted political turmoil, I hope we enter a period of greater stability, affording businesses the degree of certainty they need to make long-term investment decisions, boost productivity, create jobs and drive economic growth.
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InsightIndustry must tackle unconscious bias when recruiting
Recruiting, developing and retaining talented staff is vital to the running of any business.
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InsightThe living wage and building up goodwill
One of the lasting effects of the financial crisis was the reputational battering taken by the business community and a view that many companies had lost sight of some fairly fundamental values in the quest for higher profits (and bonuses).
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InsightThe lessons to be learned from the world of hotels
There was a time before the financial crisis of 2008-09 when the phrase ‘opco/propco’ was all the rage.
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InsightRising student accommodation values: secular or cyclical?
Judging property cycles and positioning your portfolio accordingly is how fortunes are made and reputations forged (or lost).
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MarketsWhy student accommodation is evolving so rapidly
Are there many established sectors in the UK property market where 60% of the entire stock across the UK changes hands in a three year period?
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Professional
My big break: 15 February 2008
Mark Allan reveals how he became the CEO of Unite Group in his early thirties
