Business Reporter

Virtual meetings are fast replacing face-to-face encounters as businesses dispense with the cost and hassle of travel With soaring fuel costs, the Olympics looming and major airports in chaos, business travel has never been more challenging. It’s no coincidence that 2011 saw a 34 per cent rise in sales of video-conferencing and related technologies (a market [...]

Global supply chains are straining under the weight of political, social and economic pressures. Maybe it’s time to start thinking small and thinking together Probably one of the more bizarre calls to action this summer has come from rail bosses in London. Apparently throwing up their hands in despair at the impending Olympics and Paralympics, they [...]

City businesses are urged to embrace agility to keep moving during the Games The four watchwords of the transport and logistics plans for the London Olympics and Paralympics are “reduce, re-time, re-route and re-mode”. In other words: do less of it, do it at a different time of day, go a different way, and use [...]

If the Olympics are about bringing people closer together, that’s as true off the track as on. But can the love-in last beyond August? On current extrapolations, it’s likely to be a century or more before the Olympic and Paralympic Games come back to London. So logistical lessons from this year’s exercise may be a [...]

Olympics fever is upon us and the opportunities for business are immense – assuming the Capital doesn’t just grind to a halt for a month It’s said to be the biggest peacetime operation ever and the planning for it has been going on night and day for more than 18 months. The Olympic and Paralympic [...]

From luxury vessels to wartime ships, there are plenty of ways to whet your appetite for a great experience along the River Thames this summer Hundreds of thousands of people cross its 30 bridges or travel through its numerous tunnels every day. Yet most of the time the River Thames is taken for granted. Not [...]

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are revolutionising the events sector by affording brands a lasting legacy, as well as extending their reach It’s a sobering thought that in the information age, all we need to unlock almost anything is a mobile phone. One thing that is almost universally agreed upon is that, whatever comes next, it [...]

Whether businesses are running an event or running away from London, the Olympics will bring opportunities as well as potential disruption. Here’s our guide on how firms can survive and thrive… In business continuity terms, the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games is a “known known”. We know when and where it’s going to happen, [...]

With 18 per cent of organisations having no plans in place for the Olympics upheaval, firms must act now to get a headstart on the hurdles ahead Few events will present more challenges to business continuity in London than the Olympics this summer. The heightened security in London during the Games has been the obvious [...]

From iPhone TVs, to multiplatform markets, to talking technologies, the television industry is set for some big changes this year The same sorts of disruptions that forever altered music and newspapers are now wreaking havoc on the motion picture and television industries. A few interesting dynamics are at play. It was more expensive (a little [...]