Welcome to Women in Leadership!
That’s me standing on that chair there. No, I’m not playing ‘the floor is lava’ in my business suit, I’m just a little vertically challenged and I had to find a way to talk over the crowd. ...
Life as a Cranfield apprentice
How long have you worked at Cranfield? I have worked at Cranfield University since October 2014. However, initially I worked as a technician in the Small Scale Explosive Testing sector of the Chemistry Department. I ...
My response to the Flooding Manifesto
Flooding in the UK continues to cause damage and suffering on a frequent basis with substantial costs for people, businesses, infrastructure and agriculture. And when you factor in climate change and the demand for land ...
Corporate to campus: why returning to university was the right decision
As I prepared to return to university ten years after my first efforts, I must admit I was a little nervous and had prepared myself to be a rare breed on campus: a mature student! ...
What happens in the first few months of the Cranfield MBA?
My first degree was in chemistry and chemical engineering and most recently I had been working as a Design Engineer in the oil and gas industry in Glasgow, Scotland. After a few years I felt I ...
The Future of Operational Performance Management – Part 3
Eleanor Roosevelt, an inspiring leader in her own right who, amongst other things, helped found UNICEF, is reported as saying “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all ...
Introducing… Bloomberg Intelligence primers
Getting high quality research fast can often prove problematic. Bloomberg provides analysis on a wide range of financial topics relating to companies, industries and countries amongst other things. Check out the Bloomberg Intelligence function <BI> ...
Kim Jong-nam death and VX – what does it all mean?
The recent death of Kim Jong-nam in an apparent assassination has had a further dramatic twist with the announcement by Malaysian police that the chemical weapon VX has been identified from his face. This has ...
Using European Space Agency expertise to grow better crops
When you hear the words European Space Agency (ESA), ambitious missions to mars or spectacular crash-landings on comets may come to mind. What is less likely to occur is agriculture and improving crop yields. But ...
The Future of Operational Performance Management – Part 2
The first post on this subject was posted on 9th January, which, some readers reminded me, promised answers to the questions asked. It compared Financial Performance Management (500 years and more of history) with Operational ...