Turning Point seminar – thinking inside the box

Over a hundred senior managers and business owners from Cambridgeshire attended the first Turning Point seminar “Developing a Competitive Edge”. Academic speaker Robert Jones left delegates with some thought-provoking messages, encouraging businesses to really understand their business strengths and ’stick with your knitting!’ His advice was to build new business using core competencies, doing more of what a business does well.

This point was illustrated by Grahame Nix, Chief Operating Officer at Marshall Aerospace.

 

“Marshalls Group’s success has been built on the fundamental strengths of the company and our innovative world leading skills in design and technology. I encourage companies to grasp opportunities and dedicate time and resource to taking new ideas forward.“

Turning Point seminar

‘Turning Point’ seminar series

Senior managers and business owners from Cambridge are invited to a series of six free seminars designed to introduce new perspectives to help their business develop and grow.

The series will be hosted by Chris Parkhouse, Managing Director of Cambridge-based business development experts Deyton Bell and Chairman of the Institute of Directors in the East of England.

The first seminar on Thursday 8 October is about Developing a Competitive Edge, highlighting the need for businesses to identify opportunities and develop ideas that lead to innovation. Joining Chris will be Robert Jones, Programme Leader of the Executive MBA at the Ashcroft International Business School and Grahame Nix OBE BSc FRAeS, Chief Operating Officer at Marshall Aerospace.

The seminars will be held once a month at Coslett Building Lecture Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus from 4.30pm to 7.30pm, covering topical business issues:

• Developing a Competitive Edge (8 October 2009)
• Pushing back boundaries: International business development (4 November 2009)
• Connecting with people: news ways of reaching target audiences (2 December 2009)
• Building bridges: collaboration & partnership (21 January 2010)
• Risky business? Responsibility, risk management and leadership (24 February 2010)
• Winning the jackpot! Creating value in a business (24 March 2010)

To book a place on the series or on an individual seminar, email, or call 0845 196 3177.

Executive MBA part-time in Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin University

Study for your MBA in Cambridge part-time over two years at the Ashcroft International Business School of Anglia Ruskin University. This programme was established in 1989.

On the two year part-time programme, you attend lectures and seminars on Thursday / Friday / Saturday once a month at the Anglia Ruskin Cambridge campus. The same programme is also offered at Anglia Ruskin’s Chelmsford campus.

Students fly in from jobs in the USA and Germany once a month to follow the part-time programme.

Contact Programme Leader Robert Jones for details:- robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

You can also study for an MBA full-time at the Cambridge campus.

Or you could study on the Postgraduate Certificate in Management and Postgraduate DMS Diploma in Management Studies programmes.

In July 2006, a team of Anglia Ruskin MBA students won the i10 Innovators competition at the London Eye.

In March 2008, a team of Anglia Ruskin BA Business and Management students won the IBM UBC Universities Business Challenge.

The more famous school in Cambridge is the Judge Business School – part of the University of Cambridge

MBA in Berlin

The Berlin School of Economics and Law (Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin) has been running its MBA programme since 1992 in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin. Building on many years of experience, the MBA programme is designed to enable the students to obtain a Masters degree from both Anglia Ruskin University and HWR Berlin. Students from Cambridge and Berlin study together on some of their modules.

Lord Ashcroft makes second £5million gift to create new business school in Cambridge

Lord Ashcroft, the Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University since 2001, has today made a gift of £5million to build a new business school in Cambridge.

This follows a similar gift to Anglia Ruskin University, made in 2000, which was used to build the award-winning Michael A Ashcroft Building at the Rivermead campus, Chelmsford. Today’s gift means that Lord Ashcroft has given well over £10 million to Anglia Ruskin University.

The new donation will be used to construct the Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge, situated in East Road, less than half a mile from the city centre. It will offer facilities to undergraduate, postgraduate and post experience business students as well as being a base for international research.

Cambridge Network 17th July 2009

Shell beats Wal-Mart as top firm

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has replaced US retail group Wal-Mart as the world’s largest company, the latest annual survey by Fortune Magazine says.                                                       BBC News 09 July 2009

MBA graduate takes part in Focus Group

John Pedretti, Portfolio manager at Skanska Infrastructure Development, and Anglia Ruskin MBA graduate, kindly volunteered his views on a new product. See AREA for details.

In January 2009, John gave a guest presentation on project management at the Executive MBA UK Residential at Homerton College.

Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network meeting

On 23rd June, Robert Jones (Programme Leader Executive MBA Part-time) presented a session on “Building a business that packs a punch” to the Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network. The workshop included ways to beat the recession, rethink and then rebuild your business on sound strategic principles.

The Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network aims to offer regional women in business the opportunity to meet, forge contacts and extend their skills. The monthly events are open to women from all sectors of the business community including the professions, the public sector, large corporations and small businesses and are a great networking opportunity.

The CBN meeting at Newnham College in Cambridge was organized by Dr Berenice Mann of Cambridge-based Proactive Research Organisation. The business women engaged in lively dialogue and left the meeting full of ideas on how to take their businesses forward.

MBA Overseas Residential Study Visit in Berlin

Our Cambridge-based Executive MBA students joined their counterparts from Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford campus and from the Berlin School of Economics and Law in a study visit to Berlin, 10th – 14th June 2009.

easyJet and Ryanair into Schoenefeld airport were on time and the Ibis Hotel West was comfortable and convenient for the U-Bahn.

The programme in Berlin included a city orientation tour, student syndicate presentations for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation module, visits to the Vivantes Clinic at Neukoelln and to the factory of Bombardier Transportation gmbh at Hennigsdorf, seminars on international business and financial aspects of the Euro and the European Union, and of course enjoying this splendid city and its atmosphere.

Students enjoyed exploring the city using the 5-day U-Bahn travel card. We met two young law student entrepreneurs at the 12 Apostel Restaurant in Charlottenburg who offered an interesting service to our tired students at the MBA dinner.

Executive MBA groups visit Marshall Aerospace

In April 2009 our Cambridge-based Part-time MBA students joined with their counterparts from the Berlin School of Economics and Law Dual Award MBA to take part in the “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” module.
As part of this action-packed three day block module, Cambridge and Berlin students visited the Marshall Business Aviation Centre at Cambridge Airport to study the innovations and strategy of this fast-growing enterprise.

Student business competitions

See the Cambridge AREA website for details of student business competitions later in 2008.

Contact     robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk       for details