Would you like Manchester Business School to be renamed after you?

Yes, it’s true, invest £50 million and Manchester Business School (MBS) could be renamed after you. Our new Dean, Professor Michael Luger wants to see a £35 million makeover of the School’s buildings including an up market hotel and conference facility plus new retail space. There is a history of rich individuals buying into business […]

OpenCoffee Manchester – 7th Event & Handover to Paul Robinson

Today, we had our 7th event of OpenCoffee Manchester, at which I handed the running of this event series to Paul Robinson of Vagueware. I believe Paul is able to unite the Manchester geekup community and the entrepreneur community, especially given that Paul is both a geek and an entrepreneur. As part of the new leadership, there […]

Fundtech # 1 – Sanjay Dalmia Authors Book on Financial Supply Chain

      Sanjay Dalmia, CEO of CashTech Solutions, a Fundtech company has authored a new book, Financial Supply Chain, published by McGraw Hill. According to the press release, the book defines fundamental Financial Supply Chain concepts and practices and explains how financial institutions and their corporate customers adapt to changing technologies and market demands. The book […]

Basware #2 + Hub Alliance #3 – Basware joins Hub Alliance

       It is good to hear that Basware has formally joined the Hub Alliance, increasing the member companies to six, which includes founding members Asite, Causeway Technologies and Burns e-Commerce from the UK in addition to more recent members CertiPost from Belgium and Liaison Technologies form the USA. During my assignment with Causeway Technologies, I […]

United Data #2 – Teaming up with Accountancy Age

According to David Ferdinando, Regional Director – London South of United Data: “The decision to sponsor the Accountancy Age awards was a natural choice. Over the next three to four years, the impact of ‘open networks’ will have a significant effect on the way every finance department in this country operates. United Data will be […]

Mashup* Manchester kick starts on the 18th Oct 2007

Mashup* Manchester will kick off on 18th October 2007 at Sun Microsystems in Sale, South Manchester with a high level discussion and networking evening themed ‘Web 2.0’. We want to bring together all the innovators, investors, enterprises and media organisations involved in Web 2.0 in the North under the theme of Mashup* Manchester. This event […]

Vagueware is finally live – an idea from Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson, a keen OpenCoffee Manchester supporter has finally launched his new project, Vagueware, which is an idea bank. For what’s worth, I submitted one of my ideas to Vagueware today. In addition to my idea, there are three ideas from Paul to kick start the process, these being: Bounty contribution on Vagueware Allow people to […]

Global Sourcing Council – Kick of meeting

  Recently, I have been spending significant amount of time collaborating with David Kinnear, President of DDC HRO. David was one of those rare individuals who understood the business potential of edocr immediately. Since then his brain has been on overdrive with ideas pouring in every few minutes. These have now extended to ebdex and beyond. […]