The first session in a series of four free breakfast events over the Autumn of 2010 in collaboration with Business Link will showcase some of the business expertise within the University of Nottingham.  A new format has been designed to provide added value over and above the general information and business networking opportunities, attendees will now have the opportunity to put their own specific business issues to leading academics and take away some practical advice from the surgery session that they can implement immediately.  This event will focus on:
Doing the business; strategic thinking and everyday entrepreneurship and New business ideas

Event format:
     0730 - 0800... Registration, breakfast and networking
     0800 - 0810... Welcome and introductions
     0810 - 0915... Two presentations
     0915 - 0930... General Q & A
     0930 - 0945... Coffee, networking and close for those that want/need to get away
     0945 - 1030... Two parallel interactive surgery sessions

Doing the business; strategic thinking and everyday entrepreneurship - Prof. Tony Watson

The ability to think strategically is essential to the success of the entrepreneurial business and can have greater impact than simply developing a strategic plan.  This presentation will introduce you to the ways in which successful entrepreneurs think for practical everyday effect.

“Enlightening to hear different perspectives on strategic thinking and the behaviour of managers.”

New business ideas - Dr. Lee Martin and Dr. Andrew Greenman

Innovation is at the heart of successful businesses but do you really have to wait for a “eureka moment” to come up with new ideas?  This presentation will introduce to a tried and tested technique for identifying problems that need solving and generating commercially viable innovative business ideas to solve them.

“A valuable technique of generating new ideas with that can be transferred to many situations.”

Check out the 7th and 23rd September in the calendar to see the full details of the one day workshops that will follow each of these awareness raising sessions.

Any queries please call Maggie on 0115 846 6609 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it