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The past decades have produced a range of models, tools and techniques, some more widely used than others and some more successful than others. Mapping back to the 1960s, overcapacities in production became widespread in industry and the successive oil crises (1973) and European legislations have led to complex trading environments and even more business models. (more…)

The past decades have produced a range of models, tools and techniques, some more widely used than others and some more successful than others. Mapping back to the 1960s, overcapacities in production became widespread in industry and the successive oil crises (1973) and European legislations have led to complex trading environments and even more business models. (more…)

In this recent (2005) paper Jaffe, who is both an academic and consultant, starts from the standpoint that “family considerations often overwhelm the strategic realities of the business and hinder the ability to pass the business on to subsequent generations…..(and lead to) a lack of focus on the need for business renewal” (more…)

There are countless articles about family businesses varying from short reports from practitioners, based on their experience, to much longer academic articles based on research. This section will begin with some practical, pragmatic advice and end with more detailed views of academics who attempt to develop “integrated models of strategic thinking for small family businesses”. (more…)

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the UK published a paper in 2002 entitled Small Business and Government. It contained the following facts about small businesses and their importance to the UK economy. (more…)

There is seemingly universal agreement that Joseph Rountree, through his enduring legacy of the The Joseph Rountree Foundation, has and continues to make a significant contribution to society. Through this mechanism he is working to ‘leave it better than he found’ and to execute actions that, again through his continuing influence, work to achieve his aims which he worked towards and believed in while alive. (more…)

The turnaround occurred in large part because banks were able to develop new tools and techniques to counter risk, in the process giving birth to an entirely new discipline of financial risk management. New forms of options, futures, and counter-party agreements allowed banks to redistribute their financial risks. (more…)

In the past century, personnel management has gained the reputation of being separate from the rest of management departments in organizations. However, Karen Legge (1995) in her analysis of the evolution of personnel management leads us to the understanding that personnel management models may relate to current human resource management practices. (more…)

Another major development in the video-conferencing industry is the growing demand for managing video-conferencing by organizations at their own premises and using the same staff. Respective employees in the information technology departments such as storage of data and e-mail management in addition to the responsibilities already handle this. With the new responsibilities of managing video-conferencing over traditional networking functions, this is indeed a major shift in the video-conferencing industry. (more…)

The above sections have briefly provided some of the salient features and uses of video-conferencing in present day environment with a particular focus on the British event management industry. The following section comprises of a brief overview of the development of video-conferencing over the last 5 years in particular, and its introduction as an important tool for exchanging information over the last few decades. (more…)