Raising GDP For Yorkshire
Until recently, quality of research has been a key contributor to university rankings. That is changing. Teaching is about to take centre-stage – or at least become as important as research – and play a critical part for both league … Read More
These days everything appears to be ever more formulaic. Wherever we go as service consumers we are greeted (or confronted) by processes which are seemingly designed to delight us but in reality either annoy us or just leave us cold? … Read More
I’ll be speaking at the Universities UK conference, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning. It looks a good conference and I’ll be running a workshop entitled Teaching excellence – turning the challenge into a strategic advantage for universities. The workshop will … Read More
In my last blog – “How Strategy Really Works – My Three Cs” – I discussed my views about what makes good strategy. Understanding Customers, Beating Competitors and Being in Control. I thought that provided managers understood these three principles, … Read More
I was recently asked by Bradford University School of Management to deliver a lecture to businesses. They said “can you do half an hour on strategy?” I’m used to delivering two or three day strategy workshops and MBA programmes. But … Read More
This month has been a bumper one for news stories, articles and exposés about the use of data, big data and artificial intelligence. The coverage has got me thinking. Is it all a liberating licence to become more commercially astute … Read More