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A Japanese messaging app called Line has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) valued at nearly US$10 billion. For an app almost unknown outside Japan it’s an audacious move. However, messaging is there simply to suck you into Line’s mobile world, where the real profits are made. Unlike its rivals, it is already making […]
The current debate over the right to be forgotten, spurred by a European Union ruling that allows people to stop certain web pages from appearing in search results, is proof – if further proof was required – of the distinct form of public life that is being created by the internet. Our digital identities are […]
There is something important to note about the deal on everyone’s lips at the time of writing (Pfizer/AstraZeneca). It is that journalists and politicians are repeating the ‘urban myth’ that `big pharma’ deals destroy value. This myth is proving difficult to dispel. Research conducted by Scott Moeller and myself for Intelligent M&A: Navigating the Mergers […]
Developing our students’ employability skills whilst they are studying has always been at the heart of our MSc Human resource management and development as well as the BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management. From June 2014, thanks to our lobbying and actions of the Governing Body of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), all […]
The recent release of a book by Matthew Bayliss concerning the South Pacific tribe who worship Prince Philip echoes my own experience and observation of cargo cults at Salford Business School in reverse and, consequently, draws me to an alternative set of observations and conclusions. For example, there is the Prince Philip cargo cult island […]
“Computers were made by and for people with Asperger’s Syndrome,” goes the joke – but one with a grain of truth. “Academic life suits Aspies” goes another – but is it still true? I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2003, though I had it most of his life, unknown. On discovering this, my wife, […]
The University of Salford and Salford Business School recently featured in two big and very different events in Ghana. The University attended the February UK Higher Education Exhibition and over a two day period advised over 250 students, and then attended a garden party at the Minister’s residence. Staff, students and alumni had a great […]
We all know it’s easy to overlook important aspects that we take for granted, and overplay the importance of others which. Doing this distorts analysis, generates ‘Groupthink’, makes plans irrelevant, and leads to failure in many projects, especially large information systems projects as we teach on the BSc Business Information Technology and MSc Information Systems […]