The Next Big Thing

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. …

Business Stories to Enhance Your Brand

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 …

A Fresh Approach to Strategy

A Fresh Approach to Strategy: a look at where strategy goes wrong and fixes for when it does Speaker: Jim Cowan from Cowan Global 0% of executives who use a SWOT analysis use the results of that analysis when developing their strategy.  That was just one of a number of (possibly) surprising statistics shared by …

Martial Arts for Debt Collecting

Speaker: Professor Bob Berry, Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance, Nottingham University Business School  As with any martial art, the art of managing receivables is as much one of staying out of trouble as dealing with, said Professor Bob Berry, and this process starts right from the point when new business is accepted.  Turning a …

Managing Your Intellectual Property Assets

Speakers: Gary Townley, Intellectual Property Office and Simon Curtis, Potter Clarkson “95% of UK businesses do not know the value of their intellectual property rights.”  That was the startling statistic that kicked off Gary Townley’s presentation, one that is made all the more concerning given the growing trend for intellectual property assets to outstrip fixed …

Thinking, Fast and Slow: The implications for business decisions

Speakers: Professor Stephen Diacon, Nottingham University Business School and Margaret Burrell, Contract Clarity  “Without a moment’s thought.”  You might be surprised to learn that very many of decisions – including important business decisions – are made in exactly this way. Professor Steve Diacon focused on the insights from Daniel Kahneman’s recent bestselling book, Thinking, Fast …

Bringing New Products and Services to Market

Speakers: Dr. Deborah Roberts, Nottingham University Business School and Matt Hague, Director of Microlise, transport management specialists“Don’t compromise, and do it as quick as you can” was Matt Hague’s advice as he spoke about his experience of bringing new products and services to market. He had plenty of other insights to share too but, first, …

Ingenuity Fishbowl – the Experts tell us why they’re involved

This week saw the launch of the Ingenuity Fishbowl, an online initiative that follows three young businesses and the challenges they face, and offers them support from a panel experts from within the University and from the local business community. I caught up with five of them to find out why they got involved and …

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Smaller Business

Speakers: Dale Buckland of Progression Enrichment and Francine Pickering from Clarity Marketing “Guilt by big business” was one definition of CSR offered by an audience member at this presentation and with recent tax avoidance from some very large businesses very much in the news, it’s not surprising that some might hold this view.But, having established …

Celebration!

This week at the end of the Jubilee year we celebrated our own 60th; the 60th Knowledge Transfer Partnership the University has been awarded. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme (KTP) is a government funded initiative that aims to transfer knowledge from the UK’s Universities and embed that knowledge in businesses of all sizes to help …