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 …
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 Leadership Communication
20 May, 2014
Workshop Leader: Dr Louise Mullany, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Director of Business Engagement, School of English. With Dr Sarah Grandage, Lecturer in Language and Drama, School of English & Geoff Bannister, Freelance Actor and Digital Project Manager. Effective Leadership What qualities best describe effective leadership? What characterises effective communication? Those were Dr Louise Mullany’s opening questions …
Creativity and Optimism in Business
17 April, 2014
Speakers: Dr Andrew Greenman, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Nottingham University Business School and Tony Brooks, Leadership Specialist at The Leadership Training Workshop. Driving small business growth through learning Andrew began today’s seminar with the question: How often do we sit back and think about what drives economic growth? It isn’t a simple question to …
A Fresh Approach to Strategy
9 July, 2013
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
4 June, 2013
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 …
Thinking, Fast and Slow: The implications for business decisions
6 March, 2013
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 …
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