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The first Open University Business Network Breakfast Briefing of 2013 gets the New Year off to an excellent start with OU Vice Chancellor Martin Bean in conversation with Dr Fiona Ellis-Chadwick, Senior Lecturer in Retail Management and Academic Lead for … Continue reading →

We live in an age of unprecedently elaborate projects, indeed most of us make our living by being part of one or more of them – locatable somewhere on a flow chart between key milestones, aiming to squeeze out the … Continue reading →

Missed the 5 July Breakfast Briefing? Or just want a reminder of what Mark Fenton-O’Creevy had to say? Either way, check out the web page http://www8.open.ac.uk/business-school/corporate/business-network/money-and-emotions where you can see video highlights and follow links to other material.

There are still some places left at the next Breakfast Briefing at the Open University’s Milton Keynes campus on Thursday 5 July 2012 starting at 08.30 (breakfast served from 08.00. The topic is Money and Emotions – Professor Mark Fenton … Continue reading →

Perhaps it’s because I was switched on to the topic at Dr Fiona Ellis-Chadwick’s recent breakfast briefing on digital marketing, but suddenly ebusiness is big in my in-box. My monthly update from www.trendwatching.com for May 2012 has an etail focus, predicting, … Continue reading →

The next briefing, on Wednesday 25 April 2012, is on ‘How to Manage in Digital Markets’. Fiona Ellis-Chadwick will be giving the presentation. She says: ‘Digital Marketing is changing the way we communicate. During the two last decades the internet … Continue reading →

What a great session it was yesterday. Some very thought-provoking stuff from Brian (Professor Brian D Smith, http://www8.open.ac.uk/business-school/people/professor-brian-smith) on whether we are following the right route when we set SMART targets and encourage a strong team spirit in our workforce. Are … Continue reading →

Firstly of course it is a mechanism to allow businesses to talk to each other. Nothing very new in that. There are plenty of forums both virtual and face-to-face where business folks can get together to discuss topics of common … Continue reading →