How do businesses regain their appetite for risk?
Dr David Spicer Dr David Spicer is Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in Organizational Change at Bradford University School of Management where he lectures in the areas of change management and...
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View ArticleCircular economy is about growth, not guilt
Ben Anderson, a designer from Louisiana, USA, has won a place on Bradford University School of Management’s pioneering Innovation and Enterprise for a Circular Economy MBA after winning through a...
View ArticleWho will benefit in the online shopping marketplace?
The traditional independent grocery store may be almost consigned to history, but the notion of independent suppliers is kept alive in the virtual world. The established supermarkets that once brought...
View ArticleAs part of a technology university, Bradford School of Management can be a...
I was delighted when I heard that Bradford has become a technology university. As the world’s leaders are struggling to manage the impact of technology – is this an opportunity for the University of...
View ArticleBig data: after the gold rush
In case you haven’t noticed Big Data (BD) has been a hot topic in business for some time. Governments and public institutions, not to mention economists, business commentators and technology companies...
View ArticleBusiness engagement – a romantic notion or the future?
The view of the academic sitting in their ivory tower still exists although many of us are trying hard to remove the tarnished legacy of this, to move to a more wholesome image of working together...
View ArticleAn emerging global business model: An introduction to circular economy
We have limited resources – and yet we have continued to utilise our global assets as if they were endless. We freely discard items which we regard as no longer relevant to us with barely a second...
View ArticleBrexit and the implications for Britain after voting to leave the EU
Brexit and the loss of meaning Last Thursday’s referendum saw a seismic change in the business environment. In the United Kingdom we have become accustomed to stability. At the most basic level an...
View ArticleHow the Circular Economy will change what we buy, how we own and the...
The circular economy At a recent conference I attended, Joe McGee from Jabil – the $18bn manufacturing company, which you will probably never have heard of, said: “If you are not disrupting you will be...
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