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Stand-out Priority for Action by Leading Executives: The Increasing Threat of Cybercrime

At KnowledgeBrief Innovation Days, clients – leading executives from every industry and all disciplines – produce a collective expert view on the most pressing ideas for action right now. This month, KnowledgeBrief clients focused on cybercrime.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 23 Feb

Innovation Insight: How to Make Radical Innovation Happen
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Innovation Insight: How to Make Radical Innovation Happen

Today, innovation is seen as the key way to achieve growth. Professor Keith Goffin, Cranfield School of Management, joined clients at this month’s Innovation Day to share his research on how companies can move from developing incremental innovation to achieving radical capability.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 17 Feb

Innovation Insight: How to Manage Innovation Governance
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Innovation Insight: How to Manage Innovation Governance

This month’s Innovation Day looked at how a sophisticated governance framework can help improve the productivity of the innovation process while enabling managers to better identify the balance between creativity and control.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 27 Jan

Innovation Insight: The Next Big Thing
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Innovation Insight: The Next Big Thing

KnowledgeBrief clients were joined this month by futurist Christopher Barnatt, to explore why leaders need to start turning their attention to future technological revolutions.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 15 Dec

Innovation Insight: How to Build Your Personal Knowledge Infrastructure
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Innovation Insight: How to Build Your Personal Knowledge Infrastructure

Dr. Davide Nicolini, Warwick Business School, joined this month’s Innovation Day to present how senior managers can develop, refine and test their personal knowledge infrastructure in order to ‘stay in the know’.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Thu 19 Nov

New Position Available: Head of Research
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New Position Available: Head of Research

A new Head of Research is required to lead the development of our world class suite of professional publications, to facilitate the delivery of client workshops at executive level and to tutor professional learners who enrol on our Chartered Management Institute qualifications, delivered online.

Matthew Wolstenholme
Matthew Wolstenholme

Thu 05 Nov

New Position Available: Business Development Manager
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New Position Available: Business Development Manager

KnowledgeBrief, the pioneer in management and leadership innovation, is expanding its business development team to service its UK and international growth. New business development professionals are required to service demand in the UK private and public sector customer base.

Matthew Wolstenholme
Matthew Wolstenholme

Thu 05 Nov

Innovation Insight: How to Implement Innovation
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Innovation Insight: How to Implement Innovation

Dr Kamaljit Birdi, Sheffield University Management School, joined this month’s Innovation Day to demonstrate that innovation is much more than idea generation – it’s about having the skills and strategies to implement it.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 21 Oct

Innovation Insight: How to Manage the Unexpected
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Innovation Insight: How to Manage the Unexpected

Organisations need ways to achieve predictability as well as methods to live with unpredictability. Dr. Elmar Kutsch, Cranfield School of Management, joined this month’s Innovation Day to illustrate how organisations can be innovative and resilient in the face of uncertainty and complexity.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 22 Sep

Innovation Insight: How to Innovate Across Organisational Boundaries
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Innovation Insight: How to Innovate Across Organisational Boundaries

Professor Prasanta Dey, Aston Business School, joined KnowledgeBrief members at this month’s Innovation Day to discuss how organisations can map their supply chain to uncover key innovation partners.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 18 Aug

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