Big Picture
Published three times a year, Big Picture draws on the expertise of the IoD Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Team and external contributors.
Its purpose is to:
- Present leading-edge thinking
- Highlight key public policy issues affecting business
- Look over the horizon at strategic issues likely to have an impact on business in the future
- Provide an insight into public policy issues in an accessible format
- Suggest solutions to the ‘big picture’ questions facing business
Well-regarded by IoD members and leading policymakers alike, each edition of Big Picture includes a range of topical articles on current and emerging business issues.
IoD members are welcome to submit ideas to the journal, or articles for possible publication. Please email Kathryn Allix.
Spring 2013 edition
Cover Article: Countering the cyber threat to business
Article: The UK economy: time to grasp the nettle
Article: Retirement: not what it used to be
Article: Minister, it’s complicated
Article: Taxing multinationals – the balancing act
Article: Connecting to growth: a business view of broadband
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Cyber security is a corporate-level risk that all boards, in both the private and public sectors, need to own directly. Sir Iain Lobban, Director of GCHQ, describes the scale of the cyber threat facing businesses and outlines 10 key steps to improving organisations’ online security
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Graeme Leach looks at the UK’s longerterm growth prospects, warning that the country faces critical decisions whose implications could be felt for decades to come.
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This edition of Big Picture includes two articles showcasing projects undertaken by the IoD’s award-winning survey panel, Policy Voice. In this, the first, Malcolm Small reviews recent research on retirement and directors’ attitudes to pensions, and deduces the key policy lessons
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The four essential elements of a single market (the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour) are clear, but their impact is not. Graeme Leach shows that any economic analysis of the single market is fraught with difficulty.
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Richard Baron explains the principles underpinning the current system for taxing multinational groups, assesses the merits of two radical reforms under discussion, and proposes an alternative plan of action.
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In this edition’s second article based on Policy Voice research, Corin Taylor reports the views and experiences of over 1,000 IoD members across the UK on their business internet services.
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