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 …
Managing Your Intellectual Property Assets
16 April, 2013
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 …
Bringing New Products and Services to Market
23 January, 2013
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
29 November, 2012
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 …
High Performance Computing capacity available for local businesses
22 November, 2012
Local businesses in engineering, pharmaceutical development, the creative and digital industries, aerospace and automotive, as well as other sectors, are now able to take advantage of facilities in high performance computing (HPC) that have been developed thanks to £3.5 million of EPSRC funding in a project known as Midplus. These businesses are invited to work …
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Smaller Business
15 November, 2012
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!
8 November, 2012
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 …
The Ingenuity Business Network – what’s in it for the University?
3 October, 2012
The Ingenuity breakfast events have been running for some years now, originally established as part of the funded Ingenuity Programme. When the funding for that programme came to an end, the University decided to continue to support the network which might make you wonder why – just what is in it for the University? Naturally, …
Seven Ways to Fix the World
Speaker: Chris Barnatt, Futurologist and Associate Professor of Computing and Future Studies, Nottingham University Business School “Some scientist, somewhere, will solve the problem.” That’s the message that Chris Barnatt was most definitely not giving at this presentation for the Ingenuity Business Network. Instead he focused on seven ways that individuals, businesses large and small, and …
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