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Happy 21st Birthday Investors in People!

This week sees Investors in People turn 21 after its original launch in 1991. Over this time, the Standard has been voluntarily adopted by employers representing over 40% of the UK workforce – benefiting more than 10 million UK employees!

In addition it has also grown in popularity worldwide and can now be found supporting organisations in over 70 countries.

But as the world has changed over the past 21 years, so has Investors in People – seeing a radical move from traditional assessment standard to developmental business improvement framework - supporting organisations of all shapes and sizes as the business and financial environments have become more demanding and competitive.

So how much has the world changed over 21 years? Here are some key events from 1991 that really puts it under the spotlight!

• The Soviet Union ends
• The World Wide Web is made available for unrestricted commercial use and number of computers on the net reaches 1 million (estimated user numbers now are nearly 2.5 billion!)
• UK Poll Tax is scrapped
• The average house price in the UK is £70,987
• The Football Association announces plans for a new “super league” of 18 clubs to replace the Football League First Division as the highest division of English football
• In December, thousands of British shops defied trading laws and opened their doors on a Sunday in a bid to boost trade

Plus, this very day 21 years ago Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” was still number 1 in the UK charts!

In a nutshell, even as the world has radically changed since it was first launched, Investors in People has remained relevant – and as it first helped organisations facing recession in the 1990s so it is today.

If you would like to find out more about Investors in People and how it can mean business for your organisation, click here to visit the idg website - official partner for Investors in People.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by idg .