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Innovation for Realists: How Great Companies Deliver Today Whilst Designing Tomorrow

Here is an overview of our lunchtime webinar delivered by Innovation Expert and Author of the book Be Less Zombie, Elvin Turner. The webinar highlighted the common barriers for businesses trying to achieve innovation, and the approach that must be taken to become a truly innovative company. The Zombie in Be Less Zombie represents an organisation with […]


Why taking positive steps now in your human capital strategy will pay dividends on the road to recovery in the future

In the early stages of any crisis for many organisations, human resource and recruitment decision-making can understandably fall under the auspices of crisis management rather than a vital, continuous strategic necessity. There will, of course, be more optimistic days to come, where crisis resolution within businesses gives way to economic stabilisation, re-tooling and recovery. At […]


Business student Chwas Rostam shortlisted for Future CFO Undergraduate of the Year Award

Congratulations to first-year Business Management student Chwas Rostam, who has been shortlisted in the top 10 of the TARGETjobs Future CFO Undergraduate of the Year Award, partnered by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Congratulations on being shortlisted! How did you find out about the award? Having maintained the desire to work in corporate […]


Tips to help achieve your goals whilst empowering others – Part Two

Following on from part one, we share more of Lily Rose King‘s reflections from our International Women’s Day event Creating your own stories: Lessons from inspirational women. Have a good support system  Each of the five women related a degree of their success to having a good support system around them. A great boss, strong friendships […]


The real risks that businesses should be identifying

In the next instalment of our ‘Covid-19: Our response’ series, we spoke to Dr Ann Parchment, Deputy Head of Strategy and International Business, who believes that traditional risk management thinking is inadequate for the current crisis, and indeed possible future crises. For years businesses have concentrated on identifying generic risk, which excludes cross-disciplinary risk or […]


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