Category Archives: Business Network

The Shock of the New

On September 5th 2012 NOKIA unveiled the Lumia 920, according to its makers ‘the most innovative smartphone in the world’. The result of this launch? An immediate 18% drop in share price. Admittedly, the launch event itself was bedevilled by … Continue reading

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What’s your ideal business breakfast?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for healthy businesses as it is for healthy bodies. What better opportunity is there in any schedule to make connections and take on board new ideas than when you are at … Continue reading

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Cookies for breakfast?

Dr Fiona Ellis-Chadwick’s upcoming OUBS Breakfast Briefing ‘Managing in Digital Markets’ on 25th April follows hot on the heels of a Guardian newspaper report that the average large UK website leaves no fewer than 14 tracking files (known as ‘cookies’) on … Continue reading

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Our next breakfast briefing

Making It Happen Why most of what we do ensures that our strategy won’t be implemented with Professor Brian Smith. Thursday 12 January 2012 on the Open University campus in Milton Keynes Starting at 08.30 Breakfast served from 08.00 For … Continue reading

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Our First Breakfast Briefing

Breakfast with the Open University Business School The event will be introduced by the Dean of the Open University Business School. Thursday 13 October 2011 08.00 – 10.00 Collaborative Working At this our launch event, Dr Siv Vangen, our leading expert on … Continue reading

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Why do collaborative ventures often fall short of expectations?

And how do you avoid the pitfalls that lead to such failure? At this, our first Business Network Breakfast Briefings event, Dr Siv Vangen, an expert on inter-organisational collaboration, will explore why collaborative ventures often fall short of expectations, and … Continue reading

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