Our International Business Assignment to Zambia
Welcome to Zambia On Friday 8th June our field trip to Zambia finally started, 18 months after first being told how amazing it would be and that I would probably need to reduce my accommodation ...
My sortie with ‘aviation’s best kept secret’ at Farnborough 2018
It’s not every day that you get to go for a ride in a plane used to train flight test engineers. “We’re the best kept secret in aviation,” Joe Brown, Senior Management Pilot at the ...
What is it like to be a female engineer? International Women in Engineering Day 2018
STEM is literally a field where 'things happen'. It is constantly changing and evolving, whether it is discovering a new chemical compound, working on artificial intelligence, developing a novel technology or finding the best route ...
Environmental Management for Business MSc thesis collaboration
AvISO Consultancy is collaborating with Cranfield University offering an MSc thesis to a student on the Environmental Management for Business MSc. In 2015, an updated version of the ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 standard were ...
Business Book Review: ‘Start with Why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action’ by Simon Sinek
Why do you do what you do? This is the key question Simon Sinek asks in his bestselling book.
A week in Granada, studying our Cross Cultural Management module
When we started off our MSc Management course back in September, our course director Professor Dickmann introduced us to this unique module 'Cross-Cultural Management' in which the students who opt for it travel to Granada, ...
Turn The Ship Around, Mission Command, and Staying Out of Trouble (Part four from four)
In David Marquet’s 2012 book, Turn The Ship Around, his whole effort in making the USS Santa Fe the model of excellence was to change the crew’s attitude from “not making mistakes” to “creating operational ...
Operationalising sustainability as an opportunity
"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” – Peter Ducker quoted in Grayson D, Coulter C, Lee M, All In: The Future of Business Leadership, Routledge, May ...
Day two of our study tour to Thailand: dinner and drinks!
After finishing at Henkel slightly later than anticipated, we didn’t have quite enough time to get across the city. Ever the professionals, the only appropriate solution was of course to find a bar, where we ...
Children’s Day – A call for more investment in education
Every year, a day is dedicated to honouring children globally. While many countries celebrate Children’s Day on 1st June, the date varies for others – 20th September in Germany, 14th November in India etc. However, ...