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Innovation Insight: How to Lead Entrepreneurial Innovation

KnowledgeBrief’s members were joined this month by Dr Ali Parsa, Founder and CEO of Babylon Health, to highlight the importance of innovation to the UK economy, and how it can be pursued.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 22 Jul

Innovation Insight: How to Build Workforce Resilience
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Innovation Insight: How to Build Workforce Resilience

Good health makes good business sense – but the last few years have seen the importance of well-being demoted across organisations. Professor Keith Whitfield, Cardiff Business School, joined this month’s Innovation Day to highlight how employee well-being can help drive engagement, creativity, innovation and resilience.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 16 Jun

Innovation Insight: How to Overcome the ‘Dark Side’ of the Digital Workplace
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Innovation Insight: How to Overcome the ‘Dark Side’ of the Digital Workplace

Workplaces have been transformed by digital technologies, and there is no sign that these transformations are going to stop. Organisations must, however, look into the implications of IT overuse. Professor Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University, joined KnowledgeBrief members at this month’s Innovation Day to explain how organisations can manage the ‘dark side’ of IT.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 20 May

Innovation Insight: How to Manage Employee Engagement
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Innovation Insight: How to Manage Employee Engagement

KnowledgeBrief’s members were joined this month by Dr Wilson Wong, CIPD, to look at how employees evaluate their employment deal over time, and what approaches organisations can take to engage employees.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Tue 21 Apr

Innovation Insight: How to Build an Innovation Culture
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Innovation Insight: How to Build an Innovation Culture

At KnowledgeBrief’s Innovation Day, Professor Victor Newman, University of Greenwich, focused on the real point of leverage for building an innovation culture: the behaviour of the individual within the workforce.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 18 Mar

KnowledgeBrief Management Platform gets Qualification Update
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KnowledgeBrief Management Platform gets Qualification Update

We are pleased to announce the latest update to our StudyCentre where KnowledgeBrief members can study for and get qualified in strategic management and leadership, eventually earning the prestigious CMgr letters after their name.

James Askew
James Askew

Thu 26 Feb

Innovation Insight: How to Engineer Business Models
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Innovation Insight: How to Engineer Business Models

Most big companies fail because of their business model, not because of operational failure. Professor Charles-Baden Fuller, Centenary Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School, shared his research of how business models have changed over time and what an effective business model looks like at KnowledgeBrief’s latest Innovation Day.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Thu 19 Feb

Innovation Insight: How to Manage Creativity
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Innovation Insight: How to Manage Creativity

In order to survive and thrive, organisations must develop new products, strategies, techniques, and processes that are both novel and useful. Dr Sarah Harvey, Assistant Professor at UCL, shared her latest research at KnowledgeBrief’s Innovation Day on how creativity is an imperative for today’s organisations.

Katherine Raleigh
Katherine Raleigh

Wed 21 Jan

Management Innovation Programme Welcomes 26 New Public Sector Members
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Management Innovation Programme Welcomes 26 New Public Sector Members

Launched in September 2014, KnowledgeBrief’s Public Service Innovation Group quickly welcomed 26 new members, including the Environment Agency, Liverpool CCG and Cafcass. This new offering gives public service organisations the opportunity to benefit from our Management Innovation Programme for the first time, which has been running with private sector members for many years.

James Askew
James Askew

Mon 12 Jan

Innovation Insight: Making the UK a Hub for Global Innovation
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Innovation Insight: Making the UK a Hub for Global Innovation

Chair of the Big Innovation Centre and Principal of Hertford College (Oxford), Will Hutton, opened a discussion about how the public and private sectors can work together to make the UK "a Hub for Global Innovation".

James Askew
James Askew

Fri 05 Dec

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