Peter Day's World of Business

Many of us will pay a premium to live by water – whether it’s the sea, a river or a lake. It’s well known amongst property developers but Chilean entrepreneur Fernando Fischmann is unique amongst his peers in having discovered a technique to keep the water in lagoons clear and so attractive to live next to. His company Crystal Lagoons is in high demand to provide that technology right across the world. Here he talks to Peter Day. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In this programme Peter Day continues his investigation in to what makes a good chief executive. Leading an organisation is not an easy thing to do. And leading a 21st century organisation may be much more difficult than in the 20th century. “Globalisation” has led to the rise of new economies, new companies, striking new organisations from new places, such as India and China. The push into public prominence of the Indian leaders is a striking phenomenon at the top of big multinational corporations, and in leading management schools. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Global Business asks: are chief executives really up to the job in our top companies? Peter Day shines the spotlight on these much praised and vilified high profile leaders. Producer: Lesley McAlpine Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Outsourcing used to be something only big companies did to save money. Now small firms are learning how they can become global organisations from day one.

How do companies generate new ideas turn them into products? Peter Day hears from Professor Vijay Govindarajan. Professor Govindarajan tells him why established companies can innovate as well as start ups, and how they can implement ideas as well as generate them.

Huge hopes (and vast sums of money) are being pinned on the so-called Intelligent Grid: a new network of electricity systems feeding information about supply and demand across the grid all the time. Peter Day asks what's happening to our power supplies, and why. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

... comes what? Double dip or W-shaped recovery? Or something much more uncertain? Peter Day reports from the front line of indutsry. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

London-born Graham Hawkes is the man who has created a submersible vessel that flies through the deepest ocean like a plane. Peter Day reports from his workshop in California, where he wonders why space exploration makes decades of headlines while it is so hard to get backers for deepsea travel into a world no-one has ever seen. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Presenter: Peter Day

Once upon a time, British computing led the world. In a mobile world, some people think it might be happening again. From Bletchley Park to Bristol, Peter Day reports on the past, present and future of computers UK. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

The story of the video company Ubisoft is pretty compelling ... five brothers in a small town in Brittany in the west of France rescued their parents’ ailing agricultural supply company by creating a new business based on the rudimentary computer games the brother splayed as teenagers in the late 1970s. Yves Guillemot, one of the brothers who created Ubisoft (and who is now chief executive) explains it’s business model and philosophy to Peter Day. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

London-born Graham Hawkes is the man who has created a submersible vessel that flies through the deepest ocean like a plane. Peter Day reports from his workshop in California, where he wonders why space exploration makes decades of headlines while it is so hard to get backers for deep sea travel into a world no-one has ever seen. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott