The Red Tape offers information and inspiration for entrepreneurs and their advisors in the Yorkshire region.

On this issue:

• McThinking - Steve McDermott discusses The Meaning of Things - and how you can change the meaning
• Inside Business - how one company in the region has successfully opened up export markets for its specialist services
• The Masterclass - what is corporate futurism? It's a new way of thinking, introduced by Glen McCoy
• Seeing Red - Len Tingle gets hot under the collar about porn on the net
• The Managers Guide to the Galaxy - this essential guide for 9 out of 9 managers takes a look at the life and role of paper in the office
• Focus - thinking of staging a management buy out? Here's why you should and how you could
• The Professionals - Christmas at The Burnt Sugar Sweet Company means producing a lot of fudge. Justine Cather brings us up to date with the company's progress
• Red-itorial - what's on Editor Steve Parks' mind this month?
• The CV - academic turned businessman, Professor David Rhodes tells us about his career, his success and the things he would have done differently