Events

Date	Event
29 October 2018	Leicester Business Festival 2018 Open Innovation with Dr Marta Gasparin This session will explore the concept of open innovation, the background, what it is, what are its elements, how it differs from other types of innovation approaches, and how managers can think about using it to improve their innovation and product development processes. Book you place here
31 October 2018	A Test of the Feasibility of a Common Metric for Non-Financial Risks Time: 1.00pm - 3.00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building Synopsis Risks cannot be effectively managed without first constituting the complete portfolio of granular exposures and validly aggregating them. This ‘Portfolio View’ is the essential foundation for effective risk control, auditing, public disclosure and the enabling of portfolio management tools and techniques such as trending, ranking, limit-setting, limit-monitoring, hedging, modelling and benchmarking. The application of such tools and techniques to the risks present in financial portfolios such as credit, investment and trading are well established. However, they have yet to be successfully adapted for the non-financial risks present in whole enterprises. Here, firms have universally defaulted to assessment-based, rather than measurement-based risk management systems. Exposures to non-financial risks are typically reported using a system of colour-codes (red / amber / green) with obvious limitations, the most significant being the absence of their valid aggregation. This lecture provides an overview of ongoing research at the Durham University Business School aimed at defining a new, additive common metric, capable of expressing and validly aggregating all the diverse forms of non-financial risks and testing its feasibility.Synopsis Speaker: Peter Hughes FCA Peter Hughes is a chartered accountant and a visiting fellow and member of the advisory board of Durham University Business School’s Centre for Banking, Institutions and Development (CBID). He was formerly a banker with JPMorgan Chase where he held senior positions in finance, operations, risk management and audit.
31 October 2018	Leicester Business Festival 2018 Women Entrepreneurs and Innovation Challenges with Dr Sukanlaya Sawang This workshop provides a networking opportunity to tackle innovation challenges faced by women entrepreneurs as well as to learn the design think approach to boost innovation for business women. It will also help Leicestershire based female entrepreneurs to network and share issues relating to innovation and change within their organisation. Book your place here
2 November 2018	Leicester Business Festival 2018 Visual Management with Dr Nicola Bateman Showcasing the latest thinking of how to use visual tools to enhance organisational decision-making, especially at the operational level. These innovative approaches allows teams to better enact strategic direction. Come along to see how they can change your business for the better. Book your place here