Managing Engagement: Enhancing the Customer Experience
22 January, 2016
The first Ingenuity KnowledgeXchange breakfast event of 2016 brought Dr Liz Evans and Ben Smithwell together to outline their experiences around ‘engagement’ and enhancing the customer experience. With over 70 local business leaders in the room it was a lively and interesting session. Dr Liz Evans (Faculty of Arts: Department of Culture, Film & Media) …
The Next Big Thing
5 October, 2015
The breakfast programme resumed after a short summer break with a returning favourite – Christopher Barnatt, Associate Professor of Strategy & Future Studies here at The University of Nottingham’s Business School. The morning’s breakfast presentation was based on ‘The Next Big Thing’ – helping people think big: to remember that the possible can become possible. …
Drive Your Business Forward With Disruptive Thinking
15 July, 2015
This week’s breakfast presentation, delivered by Jonathan Tallant (Head of Philosophy at The University of Nottingham) with guest speaker of Tony Brooks (The Leadership Training Workshop), was based on how philosophy and positive thinking could help your business. Jonathan Tallant started off the morning stating that creativity is hard, but it is essential if a …
Getting the Tax Man to Finance Your Business
3 June, 2015
This breakfast presentation delivered by Bob Berry (Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance) with guest speaker and tax expert, Chris Bond (BDO’s Nottingham Office) highlighted the way in which the UK government uses the tax system to encourage specific types of capital and revenue expenditure, such as R&D spending, which are key elements in determining how …
Nottinghamshire + D2N2 + Business
27 April, 2015
This week’s ingenuity breakfast session took on a different format and considered how changes in the public sector could present opportunities to local businesses. Richard Baker, Deputy Editor of the Nottingham Evening Post, put a range of questions to three representatives from the Council, Local Enterprise Partnerships along with Small and Medium Enterprises. Ingenuity Breakfast …
Hollywood in your Business
27 March, 2015
Ingenuity Breakfast Event – Tuesday 24th March 2015 Speaker: Gianluca Sergi, University of Nottingham This week’s Ingenuity Breakfast was entertaining in every respect. Gianluca Sergi, Associate Professor of Culture, Film & Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, gave an insight into how some of the leading lights in Hollywood encourage creativity in their employees. …
Business Stories to Enhance Your Brand
22 January, 2015
Ingenuity Breakfast Event – Tuesday 20th January 2015 Speakers: Esther Eidinow and Katharina Lorenz, University of Nottingham Department of Classics and John Griffiths, CONNECT Venture Enterprises Ltd What’s your story? A key part of any organisation’s success is having a good story, knowing that story—and sharing it effectively. Our first speakers of the morning are Esther …
Effective Business Communication
14 November, 2014
Speakers: Dr Louise Mullany, Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, Faculty of Arts and Jane Box, Managing Director of Interactive People Development. Becoming reflective language users Louise explained that today’s breakfast session will ask the audience to reflect on their current communicative styles and assess the ways in which their interaction with people can be enhanced. The …
Future Gazing and Future Shaping
2 October, 2014
The event began with a presentation delivered by Christopher Barnatt, a futurist, author, videographer and Associate Professor of Strategy and Future Studies here at the Nottingham University Business School. Presenting to a room of 84 guests the presentation went on as follows: Future Gazing and Future Shaping Nobody can predict the future. However, we all …
D2N2 Growth Deal and Better Business for All
18 July, 2014
Speakers: Peter Richardson, Chairman of the D2N2 LEP and Karen Edmonds, lead for Better Business for All across D2N2. The D2N2 Growth Deal Peter Richardson was welcomed to the floor to give an overview of the recently announced Growth Deal and what this will mean for small businesses across the cities and counties of Nottingham, …
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