Red Tape

Blog posts related to red tape, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Red tape bonfire of the vanities – Clarke on small business

Ken Clarke promises to slash red tape as Conservative small business policy comes into focus at its 2009 annual conference.

By | 7th October 2009 at 12:27 pm | Read more ...

Cut print costs and related harm

Last week three reports dropped (digitally) into my lap. They were all on the subject of what ICT needs to do to keep a lid on our impact on the environment. …

By | 6th July 2008 at 7:13 pm | Read more ...

First Christmas blog post

It’s December so I’m going to allow myself the use of the ‘C’ word. No, I’m not going all festive just yet, bah humbug to that until I start my Christmas …

By | 5th December 2007 at 12:03 pm | Read more ...

Data Protection obligations

Recent research conducted for the Information Commissioner’s Office reveals that 78 percent of small businesses are “unaware that they are required to keep customer information accurate and up to date”.
Frankly, their …

By | 14th October 2007 at 8:55 am | Read more ...

FreeAgent Central reduces the bean-counting burden

Perhaps it’s a sign of my misspent youth (I used to write ledger and payroll software) but accounting software bores me witless. I am more than happy to leave SAP and …

By | 11th June 2007 at 9:31 am | Read more ...

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