Electrification needs cable, testing capacity, stock, logistics, and grid connections. AI needs power, cooling, clean data, and credible emissions accounting. Workforce resilience depends on benefits, career support, and hiring models that recognise capability rather than credentials.

Issue 4 of Business Quarter follows those practical dependencies, examining how they feed into major business goals.

In this issue —

• Our cover profile follows JS Pelland of Eland Cables, whose story shows how electrification depends on stock depth, testing, logistics, supplier discipline, and building ahead of demand.
• With AI adoption accelerating, our big issue asks whether AI growth and green goals can coexist once power, cooling, data centres, Scope 3 emissions, and auditability are brought into view.
• Charlotte Livingston of Weavr looks at benefits that work across borders, while Fauzia Syed of Rabat Business School examines capability-led hiring in the age of AI.
• David Morgan of the Career Development Institute argues that career management has become central to workforce resilience.
• Glen Williams of Cyberfort, Craig Gravina of Semarchy, and Justin Kuruvilla of Risk Ledger examine cyber resilience, data foundations, and financial sector supply chain risk.

Elsewhere, our leadership and management pieces feature Matt Huntly, Lee Rorison, Amrit Sandhar, Natalie Mackenzie, Madeleine Barnes, Heather Delaney, and Nicolaas Kroone on sampling, data value, compassionate leadership, sleep, fractional marketing, search visibility, and localisation.

Read issue 4 now —