01 Sep 1996
UK: IM SOUNDING BOARD - OUR BUSINESS TO SAVE THE PLANET. - The communications revolution has fundamentally altered our society. On the whole, the explosion of multimedia and information technology has served us well - and that includes the business commu
01 Sep 1996
UK: EDITORIAL - THE BLURRED VISION OF STAKEHOLDING. - The easiest way to make a job difficult is to make the goals unclear. For those who are responsible for running a company, the background chatter about stakeholding should not be allowed to make their
01 Sep 1996
UK: MAY I ASK WHAT IT'S ABOUT? - A direct line to the CEO may improve customer relations.
01 Sep 1996
UK: OVERSEAS EQUITY LISTINGS - ALLURING BUT EXPENSIVE. - The virtues of trading stock abroad are sometimes overrated.
01 Sep 1996
UK: HELLER ON MANAGEMENT - LOOKING FOR THAT NEW INGREDIENT. - Once canonised as a 'halo brand', J Sainsbury is now consistently outshone by its major rivals in terms of trust, customer loyalty and satisfaction, says Robert Heller.
01 Sep 1996
UK: DUTCH MIXERS - THE UK GOES DUTCH TO SAVE ON THE BILL. - UK companies pay tax on dividends received from overseas subsidiaries at 33%; any taxes already paid by the subsidiary in its domestic market can be offset against this charge. So dividends from
01 Sep 1996
| by Robert Outram.
UK: THE GREAT ESCAPE. - Billions in corporate tax are being kept out of Treasury hands as companies and their tax advisers exploit the loopholes and grey areas in the tax laws both at home and abroad.
01 Sep 1996
| by Simon Caulkin.
UK: CHINESE WALLS. - The business empires of the Far East have a tradition of keeping it in the family. But yesterday's strengths may become tomorrow's limitations if companies do not experiment with new structures.
01 Sep 1996
| by Jane Bird.
UK: DATA IN - KNOWLEDGE OUT. - Computer users have long complained that they are drowning in data but starved of information. Enter data warehousing, a system that scans vast quantities of information to look for patterns that can't be found manually.
01 Sep 1996
| by Judith Oliver.
UK: 1996 MANAGEMENT TODAY UNISYS SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - THE ESSENCE OF
EXCELLENCE. - Management Today and Unisys identify the UK organisations whose quality of service measures up to the best worldwide.