Do you sometimes feel like you're in the film Groundhog Day? You can't shake the feeling that you've been there and heard that before? The mooted £100m Enterprise Zones initiative and the publication of Lord Davies's review into women in the boardroom are cases in point.
You may recall the Enterprise Zones of the 1980s and mid-1990s, which sought to attract businesses to depressed areas through cutting taxes and easing planning laws. But as The Work Foundation reminds us, their impact was negligible and could be too costly to implement again. In its report, Do Enterprise Zones Work?, the authors write: "On the surface, Enterprise Zones appear to stimulate rapid job growth within concentrated areas of deprivation. However, this job growth often comes at the direct expense of other areas, and has frequently proven to be unsustainable."
And then there's Lord Davies's review into women on boards, which said that companies should set targets to ensure that more gifted women can take top jobs in the UK. Sound familiar? That's probably because you remember the 2003 Higgs and Tyson reports, which called for more diversity in the source of talent for corporate boards. Of course we want to encourage business growth. And yes, greater diversity on boards is necessary. As Lord Davies pointed out: "Diverse boards are better boards." But it would be refreshing to feel as if we were making more headway on these sorts of issues.
There are so many good people tackling the dearth of women on boards, says the co-founder of the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme, but the pace of change since 2003 has been glacial. At least they've witnessed some success. The mentee of RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton has risen to board level at France Telecom.
A new EU directive on late payment has done little to lighten the load for business, as discussed in our Debate. But our feature on whether to invest in an app for your business should prove useful. And ahead of her appearance at the IoD Annual Convention on 11 May, Mumsnet co-founder Justine Roberts has spoken to us frankly about her company's political clout. She'll be worth checking out at the indigO2.
Amy Duff, Deputy editor