CoDE’s Business Insights Lab at Surrey Business School has gone from inception to full power in a matter of weeks – which is appropriate, really, for a Lab designed to help businesses cope with the speed and scope of change and innovation in the Digital Economy. In essence, our Lab is executive education re-configured for […]
With huge global disruption and uncertainty from a technological, social, financial, ethical, and legal perspective, what’s the future of business in a digital economy? And what does this mean to an entrepreneur, a business person, a marketing professional, or an engineer? The answer, of course, is that we don’t really know: we’re only at the […]
Digital is transforming – and in some cases sweeping away – the old ideas, models, and value streams, and revealing them to have been not just set in stone, but possibly fossilized. For example: information about a transaction is now worth more than the transaction itself. How can this be? Most of us never […]
CoDE Team members Dr Ben Shenoy, Dr Carla Bonina, Megan Beynon, and Kris Henley – together with Dr Matt Jones, Director of Clinical Education at Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine – are half way through a cross-faculty project (funded by the DVC R&I Research Pump-Priming Fund) to explore the application of Agile business methodologies to […]
Could you use $40, equity-free, for your start-up? A roomful of eager entrepreneurs heard about a unique start-up platform recently at the CoDE-sponsored presentation, ‘Discover Start-Up Chile.’ Santiago and Cristian, from the Chilean-government-sponsored initiative, started with a visually stunning film and fascinating talk about Chile as a country that had us all mentally packing our […]
The ‘Delivering Digital Drugs’ project (mapping the terrain of medicines in the digital world, where the chain of distribution and consumption is now inextricably linked to data) inspired a recent workshop that explored two interconnected issues: the processes of digitalisation, and the doing of digitalisation research. CoDE’s Dr Phil Godsiff was a key contributor, presenting […]
He’s worked as an air steward and an accountant – but in his recent talk at the Surrey Business School, John Turner was more concerned with not killing a moose…..! Part of CoDE’s ‘Digital Discussions’ series, John’s exposé on the main differences between Agile project management and more traditional (‘waterfall’) methodologies was accompanied by graphical facilitation and […]
Surrey’s very own Ben Shenoy, Gerry Foster, and Stephen Temple were among those presenting their take on 5G, and the future of mobile technology in the digital economy, on 18th May at the Digital Catapult Centre in London. The workshop’s aim was to capture the Top Ten requirements for 5G networks of the future, where […]
Digital technologies challenge limitations, but more importantly change the nature of the questions we ask. They change the face of Enquiry. This is nothing new: the development of new tools often advances knowledge. Without the microscope, germ theory – arguably the foundation for all modern medical practice – might never have been developed. New tools […]
Last week’s ‘digital discussion’ between the Surrey School of Law and Surrey Business School was a great opportunity to share ideas and knowledge, and brainstorm potential areas of crossover and collaboration for research. Our fields of expertise stretched from international law, human-rights law, and environmental law, all the way to the ethics of data ownership, […]
Cryptocurrencies are a form of digital technology that removes the requirement for a centralised authority to generate use and trust in a currency. Cryptocurrencies are instead built on cryptography to create a network of mutual trust – trust in the currency is established not through a central authority – but by every member of the […]
Surrey Business School and Surrey Chambers of Commerce joined forces late last week to present the inaugural ‘Technology Forum’, discussing ‘The Internet of Things: What are the real opportunities?’ CoDE Team member Dr Ben Shenoy was among the panellists presenting their take on what the IoT means now for the digital economy, and where this […]
Roger Camrass, Surrey Business School’s new Visiting Professor of Management Practice, recently gave some of our Masters students the benefit of his experience in a seminar entitled ‘IT Strategy: Back to the Future.’ With forty years in the IT sector to his name, plus extensive entrepreneurship experience, Roger is unusually well-positioned to give an overview […]
At CoDE, we think the new Professional Business series from Palgrave MacMillan is well worth a closer look – especially as it’s an evolving work that’s actively looking for new ideas and proposals. It’s aimed at non-technical, mid-senior executives and business managers, and is filling an important knowledge gap between business leadership and the digital […]
By Kris Henley We were very fortunate to have our latest CoDE research seminar presented by Dr George Ghinea, a Reader in Computer Science at the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University. Dr Ghinea is a pioneer in the field of Multiple Sensorial Media, and shared his perspective on this confluence […]
By Alan Brown and Kris Henley The ‘intrapreneur’ is a rare and elusive creature. Being entrepreneurial inside an existing corporation requires many of the attributes of startup entrepreneurs: vision, energy, commitment, and dedication, to name a few. However, in addition, intrapreneurs must apply these qualities in tandem with a strong understanding of the organisational structures, […]
Our undergraduate students in ‘Entrepreneurship in the Digital Domain’ recently benefited from a seminar with American social media guru Travis Lee Street. In amongst the valuable insight about traditional vs digital promotion/marketing, and the useful practical tips, one phrase stood out: ‘Start with what you know, where you are.’ Whatever your literal or figurative location, […]
By Alan Brown and Kris Henley. We are seeing the rise of the ‘intrapreneur’, as more and more large corporates grasp the necessity for innovation from within. In our digital economy, fostering and nourishing the intrapreneur ideally should run parallel with growing relationships between large enterprises and wholly separate SMEs, who team up to […]
By Alan Brown and Kris Henley A Platform Business Model is one that builds value for multiple sides in a given market by consolidating customers, simplifying market-wide processes, and rewarding each player in the value network between the value network and the customers. We are all familiar with certain Digital Platform Business Models Like Amazon, […]
Reading ‘The Crowdsourcing Scam’ recently was an unsettling reminder of the very real and present tensions in the relationship between individual, technology, and government. The menacing dystopian threat implied in the pervasiveness of digital technology is something most of us are certain we’re immune to – after all, we’re the ones with our fingers on […]
