When water gives you lemons
Multiple complexities shape the connections between water efficiency and resilience in managing drought risks at different scales in fruit production for a South African producer.
Playing the Procurement Game – why rigid procurement rules increase risk!
As a supplier to the public and private sector there appear to be some significant idiosyncrasies associated with public sector procurement! No this is not a long list of frustrations experienced by private sector companies ...
Devolved vs Centralised Approach to Management – or why Napoleon lost to the Prussians (second time around)!
You may recall our previous blog “New Operating Models – do they deliver the claimed benefits (Or never place rocks next to hard places!)”https://cranfieldcbp.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/new-operating-models-do-they-deliver-the-claimed-benefits-or-never-place-rocks-next-to-hard-places/ That blog considered organisations changing their target operating models. We’ve ...
Managing air transport through times of uncertainty and change: what’s new?
As we head towards the end of 2017, the air transport industry can start to look back on another year characterised by change and uncertainty. While some of these problems were undoubtedly self-inflicted, including United ...
Outsourcing safety – what’s in a model?
This is the third blog of my series sharing my work on a IOSH funded research project investigating the safety management of contractors. Over the last few months we have been wrestling with the questions, “Who is ...
Stepping Out – Women in Leadership Conference
Reflecting on this school year as it comes to an end, I'm so excited to see how much our humble little Women in Leadership group has grown. The culmination of our efforts was our end ...
Tackling food waste on World Food Day
What would you do with £700? If you live in the UK, believe it or not you’ll likely throw it in the bin. The average UK family wastes up to £700 per year on wasted ...
Family business and logistics: Alena Laskova’s entrepreneurial view
Alena Laskova works at Lasek transport and logistics, a family business established by her father in the Czech Republic. Being one of the authorised signatories of the company, she holds an important responsibility to ensure the ...
Submarine hunter by day, PhD student by night
Completing a PhD part-time at Cranfield Defence and Security is allowing me to earn an income while studying and means that I’ve not lost sight of the ‘real world’, which has helped to ground my ...
How big tech can anticipate its responsibilities
“The Circle” is a powerful albeit dystopian novel by the American writer Dave Eggers, about an eponymous fictional Internet company. Think Google, Apple, LinkedIn and more rolled into one. The novel follows the central character ...