The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to give you a clearer view of the business world through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies.

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About In Business

We try to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers.

In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride

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Previous Series Labour relations and selling to families Our topics this week are America and learning from mistakes Economic gloom and flexible working Leisure time and integrating after mergers Youth marketing and email Fraud and company names Telephone customer service and dominant businesses Moore’s Law and blue skies thinking Evan and guests take the temperature of the economy Staff loyalty and sponsorship Commodities and complaints Online networking and attitude Shareholders and decision making Punctuality and holidays Executives returning to the shop floor, and the death of cheques Outsourcing and business jargon The commercial property market and consumer behaviour Business security and growing too fast Getting to the top and doing business in Scotland Health and organic food Lobbying and appraisals Trade secrets and life after the top Rumours and research Value engineering and alliances Bank credit crisis and restoring public confidence in companies in trouble Web design and holiday time Home delivery and customer churn Service-sector turnover and management books Risk management and corporate headquarters Orderly succession and investor relations Long-term planning and health and safety Shop refits and time management PC use and perks Production methods and the state of our schools

Past Series: September 2006 - March 2007 Public private partnerships and establishing a brand Innovation and going ‘glocal’ Deal-making and the business of climate change Private Equity and Diversity Specialisation and pay transparency Social enterprise and storytelling Infrastructure and labour relations Growing through takeovers and graduate recruitment Wealth and business travel - World Economic Forum Luxury and expanding abroad Learning from failure and the next 'big thing' How to spot the next big thing Disaster planning and passionate selling Corporate ownership and regeneration Giving away profits Value of a brand name Boardroom pay Serial entrepreneurship