Judgement vs Process
Listening to the Today programme I was interested to hear a former employee of the Border Agency talking about the way in which immigration officers exercised judgement in dealing with people whose right to stay ...
Day one of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc study tour in Wroclaw, Poland
I was lucky to be selected for the study tour to Wroclaw, Poland where we have some very exciting organizations to visit. Wroclaw itself is a very old city which was ruled by Czech and ...
Renewable Energy Marine Structures Centre for Doctoral Training: Field Experiment Deployment
It is wise to start by welcoming the new cohort 2021 to the Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) Centre for Doctoral Training and wish them loads of fun and success in their future research. The week ...
Turn The Ship Around, Mission Command & Clarity (Part two from four)
In the book “Turn The Ship Around” the author, David Marquet, tells us how important clarity is to implementing Mission Command. It is particularly important in the Centralised Intent stages of the 8-stage process: And ...
New Offshore Engineering MSc
About offshore engineering Offshore engineering is, now more than ever, a rapidly developing discipline. In addition to its traditional relevance to the oil and gas industry, since the 1950s, it is now expanding to embrace ...
The Purpose of Education
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows" This interesting quote by Sydney J. Harris, a Journalist and Newspaper columnist, dates back to August 1978. To better understand what he meant, one ...
Wonderplants: natural superheroes that turn poison into profit
I first became interested in using plants to clean contaminated land – phytoremediation - during a research council ‘sandpit’, an event where I met other researchers interested dealing with the massive legacy of resource loss ...
From Products to Customer Engagement – Present and Future
Apple didn’t kill the music industry. They just invented ways of making life easier and more enjoyable for music consumers, ending the need to buy full-length albums. It wasn’t Netflix that killed Blockbusters; it was ...
The CFA UK Research Challenge 2018 – our journey so far
I’m from Bogota, Colombia. I studied Business Management at the Havarian University which is among the top three private universities in Colombia. After that I got an internship at the biggest securitisation company in Colombia ...
Teaching Sustainability: More than just a game
Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to a more serious business or policy environment has increasingly gained attention in the last years ...