White collar Crims:Slap ‘em in the clink

Professor and Author Gary Slapper talks to John about some white collar crimes of recent times. Gary has written a number of books on the subject and teaches at the Open University

Professor Gary Slapper

Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law

Open University

Walton Hall

Milton Keynes

MK7 6AA

+44 (0) 1908 655888

http://www.open.ac.uk/oubs/index.php

The Business Online Workshop

AMAS Director and Senior Consultant Fiachra Ó Marcaigh sits down with two internet businesses to advise them on moving on and moving up the online foodchain. Fiachra has worked at senior level in national and online media for over 15 years and shares his wisdom with Paul and Sean Hanly who have run online ticketing company Ticketshare.ie for the past four years and with relative newcomer Jim Hannon. Jim runs GetitKeepit which offers consumers a way to manage and analyse all their utility bills in one place for free.

http://amas.ie/

https://getitkeepit.com/

http://www.ticketsolve.com/

MCOR meet Sumac

Conor & Deirdre McCormack run Mcor Technologies in Ardee, Co Louth. The McCormack have come up with a most astounding piece of technology allowing 3d scale paper models to be made from sheets of paper. Really hard to visualise, but designers and architects, manufacturers and all sorts of people need these models. This is a totally unique and world beating piece of kit. This week John went to Ardee to meet Conor and Deirdre along with …from Sumac from the UK who are to manufacture the machine commercially. So 3 years after they started this process they are nearly ready to go!

Mcor Technologies
Unit 7,
John Street Industrial Park,
Ardee,
Co Louth
Tel: 041 6858459
Email: info@mcortechnologies.com
Web: www.mcortechnologies.com

http://sumac.co.uk/

Verbalise your innerness, Talk sense, man!

Britain’s Local Government Association have banned up to 250 terms described as jargon , or “words that shouldn’t be used by the public sector to talk to people”. John and Richard Stokoe got into some plain speaking about the banned words and terms.The IDeA supports improvement and innovation in local government.They work with local authorities and their partners to develop and share good practice.

email: ihelp@idea.gov.uk

telephone: 020 7296 6880

fax: 020 7296 6666

See the full list Click on Jargon at top of this page

Turn the switch on the big change

Dan and Chip Heath have tackled the problem of change and how to make it happen. Although it sounds like a self help book , In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results. John meets Dan Heath to talk the talk.

Switch is published by Random house.

To hear Dan Heath's full interview with John click here

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