Elevate - for business leaders
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector,
Technology sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: media,
report,
digital,
Twitter,
social media,
Facebook,
guide,
risk management,
risks,
guidance,
crisis,
PR,
reputation,
Alan Joyce,
Qantas,
monitoring,
Internet Intelligence
Qantas has been the talk of negative social media once again this weekend after CEO Alan Joyce took the unprecedented step of grounding all Qantas jets. Can firms prepare for a social media backlash? Yes – but they need to introduce some risk management strategies that address the modern world first.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
media,
growth,
UK,
digital,
video,
online,
trends,
forecast,
TV,
television,
RTS,
apps,
global economy,
formats,
WPP Stream
What will make British media businesses world class in the next decade? It’s a big question but there is consensus on the answer. Pretend TV founder, Alex Connock, reports back from the Royal Television Society convention and WPP Stream and finds out what the world’s biggest media and internet players are thinking about – from dual screen and interactive TV to social video and BRIC markets…
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
media,
CEO,
advice,
tips,
management,
PowerPoint,
entertainment,
lessons,
showbusiness,
rules
Showbusiness faces the same issues as real business, but with products you’ve heard of and characters you couldn’t make up. Alex Connock, CEO of TV and education producer Ten Alps, says that makes it a good place to learn universal business lessons, and picks out some rules to rule by.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy,
Financing
| Tags: business,
media,
investment,
finance,
technology,
UK,
M&A,
debt,
financing,
Private Equity,
PE Barometer,
refinancing,
privately held businesses,
Healthcare,
valuation
So says Grant Thornton’s latest Private Equity Barometer. Read on for the key stats from our quarterly survey of more than 100 private equity executives in the UK…
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Friday, January 14, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
media,
finance,
technology,
digital,
business models,
Ten Alps,
trends,
funding,
TV,
ITV,
rights,
Apple,
software,
apps,
App Store
The world is mutating into one enormous and non-hierarchical content supermarket, says the CEO of Ten Alps, Alex Connock. And that is having a transformational effect on TV business models and funding channels.
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Media sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
media,
investment,
report,
growth,
UK,
digital,
M&A,
trends,
recovery,
private equity,
money
There are signs of life in the UK media sector as investors look to new growth areas and M&A activity picks up. Grant Thornton’s 35-page research report reviews the investment environment with a particular eye on digital. Read on to download a free copy of the report or to find out more…
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: business,
media,
Twitter,
social media,
Facebook,
marketing,
LinkedIn,
blogs,
Enterprise 2.0,
forums,
community,
Chris Brogan
There are powerful business facets to Twitter and Facebook, but it requires some close attention to leverage them. ‘Social media rock star’ Chris Brogan suggests the first four steps any business should take. (Click the image to see a day in the social media life of Chris Brogan).
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
media,
Edinburgh,
BBC,
broadband,
Google,
TV,
ITV,
television,
Channel 4,
YouTube,
James Murdoch,
Mark Thompson,
Paul Abbott,
Sky,
festival,
local TV
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
BBC,
Glasgow,
Manchester,
Media City,
Pacific Quay,
TV formats,
Monkey Tennis
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Monday, June 28, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: media,
property,
technology,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
VAT,
George Osborne,
reaction,
Budget,
public sector,
construction,
local government,
IR35,
capital investment,
bank levy,
Budget2010
Pain today, profit tomorrow? That seemed to be the overall aim of George Osborne’s first Budget. But find out what Grant Thornton’s experts really thought as we round up the partners’ responses on Budget changes and how they affect the construction, technology, property, media and other sectors…
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
recession,
media,
economy,
BBC,
George Osborne,
trends,
funding,
public sector,
future,
creative industries,
Tina Brown,
freelance,
profit analysis,
gigonomics
In a recession, everyone, and every company, has to become a freelance hustler, says Alex Connock, chief executive of
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Friday, April 30, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
management,
creative industries,
zeitgeist,
ideas,
dreams,
House of Lords,
NESTA,
David Puttnam,
blame,
profitability
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
digital,
Ten Alps,
online,
social media,
Facebook,
tool,
Coca-Cola,
Aston Martin,
Ning,
Barclays Football,
Google News,
monopoly,
Disney
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Monday, February 22, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
investment,
digital,
BBC,
Digital Britain,
TV,
culture,
Media City,
Mark Thompson,
regional,
animation,
North,
Northwest
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Friday, January 22, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
media,
CEO,
Ten Alps,
Edinburgh,
skills,
Bob Geldof,
presentations,
Apple,
speech,
PowerPoint,
Steve Jobs,
Royal Television Society,
Channel4,
MacTaggart Lecture,
persuasion,
speaking,
oratory
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
tax,
media,
investment,
government,
Ten Alps,
AIM,
tax relief,
PBR,
funding,
EIS,
Pre-Budget Report,
advertising,
television,
policy,
Peter Mandelson,
X Factor,
film,
subsidies
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Thursday, November 26, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
awards,
Ten Alps,
talent,
Facebook,
Manchester,
television,
RTS,
creative
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home,
retail,
VIE,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
This summer, the Elevate blog followed two leading UK entrepreneurs to find out what CEO life is like, especially during a recession. For three months, Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps PLC, and Ros Simmons, head of VIE at home, posted a weekly
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
Ten Alps,
Manchester United,
ITV,
Channel 4,
SEO,
Audi,
Real Madrid,
Michael Mann,
Miami Vice,
search engine optimizers,
content producers,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Monday, September 28, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
BBC,
Manchester,
Media City,
creativity,
Diary,
Entrepreneur’s
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