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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
A Fishing Trip?
18 October, 2012
Can early stage businesses gain useful knowledge and successfully grow their organisation by interacting with a virtual network of ‘experts’ and the wider business community? Will these entrepreneurs be able to ask for advice in public and will the ‘experts’ be willing to share their knowledge freely in an open forum? These are just a …
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 …
It’s good to talk… even to academics
20 August, 2012
I spend a lot of my time visiting businesses from all sectors, everything from commercial archaeologists through to manufacturers of major household brands and taking in some big industrial players along the way. As a result, I see a lot of different businesses that each has its own issues. Of late I’ve seen a common …
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