Intervention and the Battle for Better Business

A critique of business support in the United Kingdom including exclusive interview with Lord Heseltine

Intervention by Business Think
  • Home
  • Book Synopsis
  • Chapter Profiles
  • Heseltine
  • Reception
  • Author
  • Buy Book
  • Contact

14: Prisk End (2010-2011)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

Vince Cable and business support“If we do not act now, jobs will be lost, our country will become poorer and we will find it difficult to afford the public services we all want. If we do not wake up to the world around us, our standard of living will fall, not rise. We cannot go on like this.”
Dr Vince Cable. Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

13: Dragon’s Breath (2008)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

The Richard Report“The existing variety of approaches, policies, systems and business models across and within the nine regions, when the issues facing small business and the questions that need to be answered are virtually identical, is absurd. As a general rule Government should not provide business advice.”
The Richard Report. Submission to Shadow Cabinet (2008) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

12: Recess Stress (2008)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

George Osborne“I want to draw attention to the failure of the policies that, in the Government’s words, are supposed to be providing ‘real help now’ to families and businesses struggling with the recession. That slogan is a cruel joke to the thousands of people who have lost their jobs while this Government dither and delay.”
George Osborne MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2009) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

11: No Wrong Door (2007)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

Alistair Darling and business support“I think the Regional Development Agencies are far better placed than the Small Business Service to provide front line services. I took the view not just that we need to simplify the number of things that we offer people (in business); I would also like to reduce the number of places that you get them. ”
Alistair Darling. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (2006) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

10: Localism (2005)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

Martin Wyn Griffiths and Localism“Before my time it was fairly adversarial. There really was quite a sense of what do you need the Small Business Service for, we can do that, from the Regional Development Agencies. And we were looking at them as a group that was attempting to take over our turf. So it was all about ‘tanks on the lawn’ and all that.”
Martin Wyn Griffiths, CEO of the Small Business Service (2004) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next Page »

Chapter Profiles

01: Shoots and Roots (1992)

02: Business Link Goes National (1994)

03: A Toolkit of Competitiveness

04: Knowledge Driven Economy (1997)

05: Quality Marks (1999)

06: Whiz Kids and Failed Business People

07: A Small Business Service (2001)

08: Best in Class (2004)

09: Help Yourself

10: Localism (2005)

11: No Wrong Door (2007)

12: Recess Stress (2008)

13: Dragon’s Breath (2008)

14: Prisk End (2010-2011)

ORDER PAPERBACK at Amazon.co.uk

Buy Book

Reception

“For many reasons, this is a valuable book, and it is an important innovation for the policy field in itself. It will remain a valuable historical resource.”

Review by Professor R Bennett MA PhD FBA. Emeritus Professor. Cambridge University

Contact

We respond to all contact within 24 hours.

Elliot Forte (Author)
Email: elliot.forte@businessthink.co.uk

COPYRIGHT © 2015 Business Think Ltd. The right of Elliot Forte to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner.