AIM News
As leaders in the field of management research there is always something happening within our community. To find out what we are involved in at the moment check below:
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... read more....Institute of Consulting's North Wales conference on the procurement of consultancy services and how to achieve profitable growth while combating financial and professional risksInstitute of Consulting's North Wales conference on the procurement... read more...
Updates from the Frontier of Innovation
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You've got the research; now lets put it into pract... read more...
We are pleased to announce that AIM Senior Fellow Professor Chris Huxham has been awarded the 2011 Routledge Award for outstanding contribution to the field of public management, as voted by the board of the International Research Society for Public Management.
Professor Huxham was invited to receive the award at the IRSPM’s 2011 meeting in Trinity College, Dublin, earlier this month, where she was presented with the award by Stephen Osborne from Edinburgh University Business School, who is president of the society.
Our warmest congratulations to Chris Huxham for this thoroughly deserved award.
... with Visiting International Fellow Dr Scott Sampson
We are fortunate to be able to offer this exclusive two-day workshop with Dr Scott Sampson, James M. Passey Professor of Business Management at Brigham Young University in Utah. The workshop, held at Cambridge University and free to attend, will bring together AIM Fellows and other academics from around the country. It promises to be an opportunity to take part in vibrant discussion on the latest thinking and theories around Service Operations, Design and Innovation - and attendents will also leave with new models and frameworks which they can apply in their own teaching and research.
For more information including a detailed agenda and hotel recommendations, click here.
... read more....Following on from his successful visit to the UK in the autumn of 2010 we are pleased to be welcoming AIM Visiting International Fellow Professor Andrew Van de Ven back to British shores this coming May. Professor Van de Ven, who is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change in the Carlson School of University of Minnesota, will be involved with four events during his stay, in London, Cardiff and Leeds. Interest in attending Professor Van de Ven’s 2010 UK events was extremely high so we recommend registering early if you want to guarantee your place this year.
Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact – Opening Conference in London, 23rd May
Researching Innovation and Change Processes – Workshop for Academic Researchers in Cardiff, 25th May
Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact – Workshop for Research Students in Leeds, 26th May
... read more....'Lean' may have first been developed in manufacturing but as an approach to ensuring the greatest ongoing operational efficiency it has increasingly been developed for application in other sectors, including the public sector.
Now AIM Management Practices Fellow Dr Zoe Radnor and her colleague Giovanni Bucci of AtoZ Business Consultancy have completed the first independent analysis of the Lean Improvement Methodology in UK Business Schools and Univerities.
Undertaken on behalf of the Association of Business Schools (ABS) the research - based on a combination of a survey questionnaire and five case studies of universities and business schools - found a number of higher education institutions engaging in process management and Lean. The report also highlights the approaches, impact, success factors and barriers of implementing the lean philosophy.
Professor Radnor comments, "In the current climate of austerity it is important that when organisations cut the waste from the system they do not cut the value at the same time. In higher education, like many public services, there can be multi definitions of what constitutes value, which means it is important to understand and improve the system.
"This report highlights a number of Higher Education institutions who are engaging with Lean as an approach to understanding the non-value adding activities within the organisation in order to deliver better services for academia, both teaching and research. There is still some way to go, but the initial results are promising."
Click on the link below for the Executive Summary. The full report can be purchased from the ABS - contact Vicky Robinson for further details.
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Following on from their highly successful collaborative event ‘Innovation in India and China: A threat to the West?’ at the Royal Society, AIM Research comes together with the Asia-Pacific Technology Network (APTN) to run this second seminar addressing the challenges for business and managers in and from Asia.
Taking place on the 31st March at Fasken Martineau in London, the seminar will be chaired by Martin Bloom, Non-executive Chairman at ReneSola, and will feature Peter Williamson (Professor of International Management at Judge Business School) and John Frieslaar (CTO of Key Accounts at Huawei Technologies) as speakers.
To learn more about this event click here.
... read more....Join AIM Research and the CMI for this exciting event at the University of London... read more...
AIM Fellows on Productivity... read more...
AIM Fellows Video on Practices... read more...
AIM Fellows Video on Innovation... read more...
British Library: Launch of the Management and Business Studies Portal... read more...
Research for Our Future... read more...
The Challenge to Professionalism in Management... read more...
Chance to hear Professor Andrew Van de Ven at London Business School
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AIM at the Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010 ... read more...
AIM Targeted Initiative Fellow Professor Mary Rose and colleague Professor Sarah Jack at the Lancaster University Management School have secured funding for Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dr Mark Freel, Mark R. Bruneau Fellow ... read more...
New AIM Working Papers... read more...
Emerging Landscape: An Exploratory Study of Management of University Knowledge Transfer Office in the UK... read more...
Over 200 delegates enjoyed an excellent evening event organised by AIM in collaboration with CMI and IBC on the key current topic of employee engagement. They enjoyed the observations of a panel consisting of Robin Field-Smith, David MacLeod and John... read more...
Supporting Innovation in the 21st Century... read more...
Lean in the Total Place; 21st May; Warwick Business School... read more...
Academic Researchers' Engagement With Practice; 11th - 12th February; Alma Graduate School
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Call for papers Special Issue on Operations Management in the Public Sector... read more...
Edited by Annabelle Gawer, Imperial College Business School... read more...
Innovation for Inclusive Growth... read more...
TUM-Research Excellence Award in Innovation & Leadership 2010 of the Peter Pribilla Foundation... read more...
Stefan Stern discusses AIM Research programme in the Financial Times... read more...
Discontinuous Innovation Lab: the latest workshop... read more...
AIM Collaborations - The Institute of Customer Services... read more...
Social Science Week 2010... read more...
Learn to Think Like an Expert Management Researcher - New AIM Webpages www.aimexpertresearcher.org... read more...
We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the British Academy of Management Conference, held this year in Brighton, particularly the opportunity to meet lots of new and old AIM faces and discuss our latest projects. However if you were unable to attend th... read more...
In the wake of the economic crisis the importance of effective risk management has never been clearer - not just in finance but also in government and the the public sector. AIM Senior Fellow Professor Julian Birkinshaw and colleague Huw Jenkins from... read more...
History shows that the boundaries of innovation are constantly changing. It also suggests that those UK organisations that are able to successfully monitor, acknowledge and... read more...
Robin Wensley spoke at Bradford University Management School where he questionedHarvard's 'Delicate Experiment' and whether Business Schools are fit for the 21stCentury?'... read more...
The Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge (IPGC) is a major research project which has been funded by the two UK research funders - the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council - since 2006.... read more...
Innovation is an organisational imperative. Despite the many interesting and challenging possibilities for change, however, the realities of resource commitment - where pursuing one avenue often closes another - mean that organisations cannot afford ... read more...
On 8th and 9th July, Dr David Tyfield presented the work of AIM project 'China-EU Low Carbon Innovation Networks' at the INNO-Views policy workshop on 'Emerging Economies (BRIC countries) and Innovation: Implications for innovation policies in Europe... read more...
The 2010 week runs from the 12th - 20th March and it is important that AIM continues to have a high profile during the week. We have run a number of hugely successful events in the 2009 Festival and we hope to at least match if not better the impress... read more...
The AIM Toolkit is a new section of the website, put together to help you assess your business's overall performance as well as capabilities in specific areas such as preparedness to innovate. All of the tools on this page have been kindly donated by... read more...
Britain in 2009 offers an insight into the state of the country today. The magazine deals with articles from top academics and journalists covering a wide range of themes... read more...
The motorsport industry is a significant part of the UK economy. According to industry estimates approximately 4,500 companies are involved in the UK Motorsport and Performance Engineering Industry and its wide-ranging support activities. The industr... read more...
Innovation Fellow Dr Luciana D'Adderio has published a chapter in the new book "Organizational Routines: Empirical Advances" edited by M.Becker and L. Lazaric and published by Edward Elgar. The book contains chapters by some of the key contributors t... read more...
The idea for this research grew from observations in the business press. The press is replete with stories suggesting that the way firms develop business models (that interact with and shape markets) is likely to affect their ability to compete inter... read more...
The British Academy of Management are pleased to announce their new website. On the website you will find a host of interesting and refreshing ideas on workshops to research methods and career development to online resources.... read more...
Professor Robin Wensley, comments, "I am delighted to welcome the new cohort of midâ€career researchers to their AIM Fellowships. They are an outstanding group who I am sure will undertake individually ... read more...
In times of recession and job uncertainty, it is more important than ever that each one of us can prove their worth to our employer. Whether we like it or not, it is survival of the brightest, and team members that can match earning potential with cr... read more...
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is committed to increasing its engagement with the business community. The overarching purpose of this project is to contribute to the ESRC's and the management academic community's better understanding... read more...
In 2010, a special issue on pricing and revenue models within the new service economy will be guest edited by Prof Irene Ng of the University of Exeter. We would like to invite leading scientists, researchers and practitioners to submit papers, case ... read more...
