Business Continuity Planning
By John Walker on January 27, 2012
Last Year’s Dragons’ Den was record breaking, attracting more viewers than ever before. New Dragon Hilary Devey arrived, arched her shoulder pads and firmly established her place amongst the revered business leaders, and some of Britain’s best entrepreneurs gained the cash they desperately needed to turn their business fortunes around. Now it’s 2012 and [...]
Posted in Announcements, Business Continuity Planning, Business Support Services, Deals and Agreements, Expansion, Financial Capital, Financial Services, Franchising Out, Fundability, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Lending and Borrowing, Loans and Finance, Management Consultancy, People and Players, Product Research and Development, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, Television and Radio Broadcasting, UK | Tagged Alan Colleran, Barack Obama, Chris Hopkins, Deborah Meaden, Dragons' Den, Duncan Bannatyne, Georgette Hewitt, Hilary Devey, Kirsty Henshaw, Liz Colleran, Natalie Ellis, Peter Jones, Richard Branson, Theo Paphitis |
By John Walker on November 29, 2011
The Chancellor has today delivered his autumn statement to Parliament, alongside the publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s updated forecasts for growth and borrowing. He announced permanent reductions in spending to ensure that the UK meets its fiscal targets, using some of those savings in the short term to fund infrastructure investment to generate [...]
Posted in Accounts, Business Banking, Business Continuity Planning, Commercial Property Services, Cost Management, Critical Infrastructure, Distribution Channels, Down sizing / Retraction, E-commerce, Economic Cycles, Employment Levels, Financial Capital, Forecasts, Fundability, Grants and Funding Pronouncements, Industrial Relations, Inflation, Insurance, Lending and Borrowing, Loans and Finance, Monetary Policy, Morale, Organized Labour / Unions, Outsourcing, People and Players, Political and Economic Philosophies, Politics & Legislation, Procurement, Product Research and Development, Public Sector, Public Spending and State Aid, Recruitment, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Skills and Training, Staff, Startups, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunications, UK, UK Budget, Utilities | Tagged Air Passenger Duty (APD), Apprenticeship, Association of British Insurers, Autumn Statement, bank levy, Bank of England, Business Finance Partnership, Chancellor, Child Tax Credit, deficit reduction, enterprise, Enterprise Zones, free education, Free Schools, fuel duty increase, Infrastructure Investors Forum, infrastructure spending, Jobcentre Plus, Jobseeker’s allowance, Local Authorities, measures, mid-sized businesses, National Infrastructure Plan, National Loan Guarantee Scheme, OBR, Office for Budget Responsibility, Official Development Assistance, pension funds, Sector Based Work Academy, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), small firms, smaller businesses, Spending Review period, State Pension age, super-connected cities, tax relief, Work Experience, young apprentices, Youth Contract |
By John Walker on November 22, 2011
The UK’s most innovative firms share their business secrets.
Every day across the British business landscape new companies are starting up and fresh ideas are being generated. 2011 has seen a plethora of bolder and better business ideas. These gems can be new products and service ideas or equally new ways to improve existing offerings. The [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Market Research, Product Research and Development, Project Management, Standards, Startups, Technology, Telecommunications, UK, Worldwide | Tagged Anthony Keyworth, British Library Business & IP Centre, Dominic Swords, Everything Everywhere, Henley Business School, Jim Shaikh, Naked Wines, orange, Rowan Gormley, Steve van Dulken, yoomi |
By Ruben Kostucki on January 26, 2011
As the founder of an organisation that helps small businesses grow, one of the key challenges often faced by owners is how to increase my productivity.
At a basic level, increasing productivity starts with developing an optimised, streamlined workflow for day-to-day company administration. Thankfully, there are literally dozens of tools that can help you do just [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Business Services, Products and Solutions, Business Software, Contact Management, Customer Support, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Marketing, Procurement, Project Management, Technology, Telecommunications, Worldwide | Tagged Dropbox, Echosign, Evernote, Highrise, Hootsuite, MessageBase, Paymo, Teambox |
By John Walker on December 3, 2010
Responding to the implications of the heavy recent snowfalls, Barclays Business is offering a financial support package to all of its affected business banking customers.
Travers Clarke-Walker, Director of Product and Marketing, Barclays Business, said: “Snow is impacting across the UK, making it impossible for some businesses to operate. We can take some of the worry [...]
Posted in Business Banking, Business Continuity Planning, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, Financial Resources, Scotland, UK |
By John Walker on November 15, 2010
Incident and vulnerability research points to anticipated information security trends
Imperva, the global leader in data security, announced today its predictions for the top ten information security trends expected in 2011. The report, compiled by Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC), led by CTO Amichai Shulman, is based on analysis of incident and vulnerability data from the [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Business Software, Critical Infrastructure, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Forecasts, IT and Telecommunications Services, Industry Reports, Information Security, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Regulatory Compliance, Technology, UK, Worldwide | Tagged Advanced Persistent Threat, Amichai Shulman, CISOs, Cloud Computing, cyber security, data breaches, data theft, Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Imperva, Information Security, malware, Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) Attacks, Open Source, social networks, Stuxnet worm |
By John Walker on April 20, 2010
Met Office scientists have been working with the Universities of Reading and Hertfordshire to gather comprehensive data about the potential danger to aircraft from the volcanic plume that has been emitted from the recent eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.
The volcanic dust was measured using newly-developed probes that attach to meteorological balloons that can be used [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, Environmental Issues, Equipment & Operational Resources, Europe, Scotland, Surveys, Transport and Distribution, UK | Tagged Eyjafjallajökull volcano |
By John Walker on November 20, 2009
Responding to the implications of the recent flooding across areas of the UK, Barclays Local Business has today announced that it will be offering a financial support package to all of its affected business banking customers.*
The package will allow businesses time to recover from the immediate impact of the flooding, or to bridge the gap [...]
Posted in Accommodation, Business Banking, Business Continuity Planning, Critical Infrastructure, Cumbria, Lending and Borrowing, UK | Tagged Barclays, Floods November 2009 |
By John Walker on July 27, 2009
The Insurance Industry Working Group (IIWG) today published its report into the medium and long-term challenges facing the insurance industry.
The group was set up in October 2008 to look at the challenges and opportunities facing the UK Insurance Industry. It is co-chaired by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling and Andrew Moss, Group Chief Executive [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Industry Reports, Professional and Business Services, UK |
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