| The Director 1995 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| A retiring world comes into the limelight: it's been a hectic 12 months for pensions. Regulation, transfers, performance - all the big issues have been under scrutiny. | Business, international | Peta Hodge |
| Are you creating tomorrow's markets? your company may be making itself more efficient today, but is it positioning itself to seize the opportunities of the future? | Business, international | C.K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel |
| Attacking apple's core ills. (Apple Computer) | Business, international | |
| Banks are still failing the growing business: more peopel are considering changing their bank. | Business, international | Phil Doggett |
| Better suited by being global: the new boss of Hugo Boss is driving a management and marketing revolution. | Business, international | |
| Blueprints for virtual reality. (influence of Crispin Gray, founder of CADCentre) | Business, international | |
| British industry is not world class - official: process controls and disciplines - the key to modern manufacturing. | Business, international | Jeff Daniels |
| Building a new society. (Mike Blackburn, chief executive of the Halifax building society)(Interview) | Business, international | |
| Business questions investment vehicle: new funding scheme makes a slow start. | Business, international | |
| Computers drive the future of learning: in future children may be able to use a computer before they can read and write. It's futuristic facts such as these that are behind the rcent stockmarket flotation of Research Machines. | Business, international | |
| Danka's repetitive success syndrome: bringing discipline to the photocopier market is a profitable process. | Business, international | |
| Directors make a difference. (role of directors in prompting IT related change) | Business, international | |
| Distribution. (an analysis of the distribution industry) (includes related articles) | Business, international | Malory Davies |
| Do or die for DIY. (rationalisation in UK DIY sector) | Business, international | Peter Gray |
| Foresight: the sage continues. (views on Technology Foresight programme; includes excerpts) | Business, international | Michael Kenwald |
| Germany's boards start soul-searching: has the two-tier board reached its sell-by date? | Business, international | Philip Moore |
| Getting personal. (influence of Kenneth Caudrelier, founder of Personal Strategic Planning) | Business, international | |
| Global ambitions drive an unusual contractor: from a student friendship, two men are building a 100m pounds sterling business. | Business, international | |
| Goodbye lending...Stung by small business losses, the banks are moving to pastures new. One of the beneficiaries is the long-maligned factoring industry. So what should you know about this evilving financial sector? | Business, international | Michael Bickers |
| Growing nearer to the Far East. (strengthening of trading relations between the UK and Japan) | Business, international | Tim Melville-Ross |
| Houses: breaking or entering? (is there a case for government intervention in the UK's depressed housing market?) | Business, international | Michael Taylor |
| How to save the ultimate penalty: the government is trying to address the problem of too few company rescues. In April, it issued revised proposals aimed at overcoming the main barriers to the use of company voluntary arrangements. | Business, international | Beverly Jones |
| If anyone can, can Mitarai? (Hajime Mitarai, president of Canon) | Business, international | Bob Johnstone |
| Investment: UK pulling power. (inward investment) | Business, international | Ruth Lea |
| Is up the only way? (alternatives to upward advancement in business) | Business, international | Michael Blakstad |
| Jobs and where to find them: job creation will have to come from the private sector if the UK is to improve its unemployment record. | Business, international | Michael Taylor |
| Korea moves: one of the biggest gambles ever seen in the UK motor industry is about to begin. The launch of Daewoo Cars is imminent and it could change the face of motor retailing in the UK - if it works. | Business, international | Matthew Carter |
| Landing the best deal in Brussels: the 1994 joint venture between TI Group and Snecma Grou of France created a 250m pounds sterling business. Steering the merger through Brussels was crucial to its outcome. | Business, international | Nigel Page |
| Less fizz, more bottle: last year, management buy-outs made over 100 managers into millionaires. This year, the number has more than halved. | Business, international | Philip Beresford |
| Major acts dominate the media circus. (effects of consolidation in the media sector) | Business, international | Christopher Scales |
| Making computers more hospitable: conquering glitches in an information-dependent business. | Business, international | |
| Management buy-outs. (A Director's Guide) | Business, international | Stuart Middleton, Julian Blogh, Chris Beresford, David Auty, Ian Hawkins, James Baird, Martin Thorp, Glyn Barker, Tim Adams, John Power, Jonathan Blake, Steven Davis, Richard Raworth, Keith Evans, Struan Wiley, Frank Neale |
| Matthew Harding gets the knowledge: Matthew Harding has come a long way. Once he ran the office manager's bets at the local bookmakers. Now he's the head of the dynamic and unconventional Benfiedl insurance group, and quotes Dickens in his chairman's statements. | Business, international | Mihire Bose |
| Money talks: rocked by criticisms of malpractice, 1994 was not a good year for financial advisers. So how do you pick the best one? And how do you know whether they are giving you the best advice? | Business, international | Christine Michael |
| Outsourcing the car: think twice before you outsource everything to do with your company car fleet. | Business, international | Mike Gunnell |
| Outsourcing, the compute: the UK is way ahead of Europe when it comes to outsourcing IT systems. | Business, international | Glenn Cuthbertson |
| Outsourcing, the downside: over-vigorous outsourcing can lead to corporate lobotomy. | Business, international | Margaret Stephenson, Alistair Russell |
| Outsourcing the law: transfer of undertakings regulations (TUPE) haunt outsourcing. | Business, international | Fraser Younson |
| Outsourcing the transport: contracting out your distribution is not as easy as you might think. | Business, international | Malory Davies |
| Over-litigious, overbearing and over here: with American-style litigation encroaching on one side and an army of EU regulations entrenched on the other, British business runs the risk of emasculation at the joint hands of the US and Brussels. | Business, international | Nigel Page |
| Packaging produces a mixed bag. (printing and packaging merger and acquisition trends) | Business, international | Howard Leigh, Tom Nash |
| Peter Wood branches out. (Direct Line moves into household coverage) | Business, international | Nick Kochan |
| Relocation: moving with the times. | Business, international | Anthony Barnett, Douglas Yuill |
| Re-writing the rules by radical improvement: something is clearly amiss with current re-engineering practice. Companies are falling short of their radical improvement goals by up to 30 per cent. | Business, international | David Harvey |
| Saturn reaches for star status: Sydney-based Saturn Global Networks runs rings around the big boys when it comes to telecommunications solutions for international companies. | Business, international | |
| Tax: is the US deal a dream? (views on the Republican party's 'Contract with America') | Business, international | DeAnne Julius |
| The accidental adjudicator. (profile of Marks and Spencer PLC chairman Sir Richard Greenbury) | Business, international | |
| The burgeoning of the bourgeoisie: all over the world, disposable incomes are rising. For consumer goods manufacturers, this emerging global middle class is fast becoming the new holy grail. But western companies will need to be better than ever at knowing what the customer wants. | Business, international | Philip. Moore |
| The changemaster at work. (Dr Gilbert Amelio, president and chief executive of National Semiconductor Corporation) | Business, international | |
| The charge of the heat and light brigade. (the market for privatised energy) | Business, international | Helen Kay, Peter Spring |
| The copycat with a mind of his own. (views on UK business from Paul Allaire, chairman of Xerox Corp)(Interview) | Business, international | |
| The courage of his convictions. (Sir Alick Rankin, chairman of Scottish and Newcastle)(Interview) | Business, international | Julia Bright |
| The easy-going acquirer. (influence of businessman Greg Hutchings) | Business, international | |
| The fast-track factor: developing tomorrow's directors. | Business, international | Manfred Kets de Vries |
| The generation game heats up. (Ian Robinson, chief executive of Scottish Power). | Business, international | |
| The good tax guide: with a new tax year looming, investors should be making the most of opportunities for tax relief. But not all the special offers and concessions are valuable. | Business, international | Christine Michael |
| The great game of infant-mation. (how UK companies can capitalise on the popularity of multimedia) (includes related articles) | Business, international | Richard Hooper, Jeff Ferry |
| The kangaroo gets commercial: he says that it's ben unintentional but James Strong has always been 'a change agent'. Now he's leading Qantas through its biggest change ever - from state airline to public company. | Business, international | |
| The pay-off for hard work. (management buy-outs) | Business, international | Tim Adams |
| The perk that pays off: private health care is becoming the most cost-effective cure-all for companies that care for their staff. | Business, international | David Loshak |
| The quiet revolution in Britain's innter cities. (urban regeneration and local partnerships) | Business, international | Antony Barnet |
| The right stuff. (entrepreneurs) | Business, international | Philip Beresford |
| The secret art of cultivating ideas. (how business leaders find inspiration) | Business, international | Harry Alder |
| The vague world of scenario thinking: he holds 23 directorships. Some credit him with influencing former South African president FW de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela from prison. And he is encouraging the world's managers to stare into the future. | Business, international | |
| The world's favourite fizz-kid: you know what it's like when you've got 500m pounds sterling in the bank. You get an urge to do something. But take on the world's most powerful brand? (Richard Branson) | Business, international | Jeff Ferry |
| They don't make them like they used to. (an analysis of conglomerate corporations) (includes related articles) | Business, international | Nick Kochan |
| Transport deregulation bears fruit for a Kiwi: developing people and ancillary services. | Business, international | |
| Warning: this job could kill: employees can now sue if their workload drives them to distraction. | Business, international | Fonnie Fox |
| Who's driving the recovery? Men like Tom Eassie of Rotork are exporting well over half their production. (includes related articles) | Business, international | Hamish McRae |
| Why energy efficiency is so smart: everybody wins where energy conservation is concerned: companies reduce bills and gain customer aproval, and the environment gets a break. So why have so few businesses invested in energy-saving initiatives? | Business, international | Andrew Warren |
| Why sponsorship is more than a lottery: even in these cost-conscious days, business sponsorship of sport and the arts is looking healthy. Two things are helping, government backing and deals where you don't have to come up with cash. | Business, international | |
| Will the Web be a money-spinner? (future uses of the World Wide Web; special report on the information superhighway) | Business, international | Michael Kenward |
| World trade: will Britain boom? | Business, international | DeAnne Julius |
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