Centre for Digital Business

Partnership management: seven lessons from international collaborations

Partnerships across organisations are often the most effective way to solve complex social and global problems. However, as many project managers know, whilst managing a team of individuals from one organisation can be a challenge in itself, bringing together a team across multiple organisations across different countries and cultures brings an extra level of complications […]

Android operating system: is it safe and secure?

Google have decided to stop providing security updates for older Android Operating System devices, which could account for 60% of users, over a billion mobile phone and tablet users. There was no official announcement to notify all the users affected and suggest a way forward. A smart phone operating system (OS) is essentially the software that […]

NARTI workshop: 10 academic online profile development lessons

Salford Business School in collaboration with the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) organised a workshop to help PhD students and academics to develop their online profiles. This hands on workshop allowed participants to review their personal academic profile strategy and plan future activities to increase their research impact. NARTI is an association of leading […]

Digital Business Maturity Model: The future of #DigitalBusiness

At the Centre for Digital Business we have recently been discussing what digital business is, the future of digital business and ways to understand the stages of digital development for any business. The contrasts between Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Large Multi-national Organisations (LMOs) are usually quite obvious in any comparative survey of business maturity or readiness. But, digital is different. […]

Can a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) help your SME?

Pennine Telecom are a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) based in Greater Manchester, UK. Pennine Telecom began their partnership with Salford University over 10 years ago, supporting the Annual Family Telecoms Exhibition and more recently by producing a product demonstration video for Yealink UK, it was during the production of the video that Pennine Telecom realised […]

Bitcoin’s blockchain could revolutionise more than just how we do #business

Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money. Cryptocurrencies are novel as they are only possible because of the ready availability of high-speed computing and networks. They are a challenge to today’s […]

10 great reasons to attend Creative Entrepreneur 2014 #CreativeEnt #MediaCityUK

Salford Business School is opening its doors at our cutting edge showcase space at MediaCityUK campus to YOU! Whether you are a young entrepreneur or a seasoned professional you will find a great networking opportunity to inspire your digital business thinking at our Creative Entrepreneur 2014 event. Meet young entrepreneurs amongst our students, members of […]

5 management lessons that you learn from #Pinterest

In the ten years since Tim O’Reilly coined and popularised the concept of Web 2.0 it has become the basis for many claims and blames. Invoking Web 2.0 has also become the vehicle by which many traditional roles are being redefined and extended (or at least claimed to be). One of the most noticeable of these […]

Is Manchester United’s tablet ban about safety or shrewd business?

Manchester United supporters lucky enough to see high-profile signings Radamel Falcao and Angel di Maria in action for the first time at Old Trafford at the weekend may have done well to remember we look with our eyes and not our hands. Or fingertips, to be specific. In an age where no experience is complete […]

Kickstarter is turning into eBay as shoppers play investor

Crowdfunding has come a long way in its short history. Today, it is even changing the way we consume. What was once a way to give a largely ready product a helping hand on its final push to market has become a means for consumers to get involved with something still on the drawing board, […]