Monday, 26 June 2017
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
CIMA Leadership Conference in Birmingham on Saturday 22nd April
CIMA CPD conference: Leading
innovation, creativity and enterprise - leadership lessons from the parallel
universes of the business school and music
Speaker:
Peter Cook, Human Dynamics
The
Academy of Rock uniquely blends business and leadership with the power of music
to inspire, inform and engage you. Join us at this exciting conference to find
out more.
The
conference will have four sessions during the day covering: -
Leading innovation, creativity and
enterprise I
In this
session, Peter Cook will examine the disruptive business world in which we now
operate and outline strategies for innovation as a means of responding to
this. We will relate this to the job of
the finance professional in the wake of an adaptive business environment
The music of business
We
continue our exploration of innovation and creativity but this time using
examples from the parallel universe of music. What can we learn about
leadership from Madonna, business strategy from AC/DC or innovation from David
Bowie and Prince? This is a unique blend
of business academia and music with opportunities to contribute your own
examples and participate.
Leading innovation, creativity and
enterprise II
In this
second session, we examine ways in which you may create a culture of innovation
in your enterprise. We also examine the
qualities of creative leadership that will contribute to an enterprise where
people bring their heads, hearts and souls to the workplace.
The Virgin way: leadership lessons
from Sir Richard Branson and Virgin
Peter Cook
won a prize from Sir Richard Branson and this led to working for Virgin as an
author and event leader. At the same time Richard then offered an exclusive
interview for Peter’s book with Bloomsbury.
As a result of this he has had the opportunity to study the Virgin group
in terms of its leadership and approach to innovation and creativity. Here Peter reflects on his experiences and
gives an insight into the way that Virgin is led and managed with transferable
lessons to your own organisation.
Schedule: -
9.30 to
4.00pm
9.30 -
Arrival, breakfast and registration
10.00am -
Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise I
11.30 -
The Music of Business
12.50
Lunch and networking
13.50 -
Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise II
15.20 -
The Virgin Way: Leadership Lessons from Sir Richard Branson and Virgin
16.00
Close, networking and 1:1 coaching opportunities
Peter Cook, Human Dynamics
Peter Cook
leads Human Dynamics, offering business and organisation development. He also
delivers keynotes around the world that blend business intelligence with
parallel lessons from music via the Academy of Rock. Peter is author of and
contributor to 12 books on business leadership, acclaimed by Tom Peters,
Professors Charles Handy, Adrian Furnham and Harvey Goldsmith CBE. His three
passions are science, business and music, having led innovation teams for 18
years to develop life-saving drugs including the first treatments for AIDS,
herpes and the development of human insulin. He won a prize from Sir Richard
Branson for his work and now writes and delivers events for the Virgin brand.
Peter has spent 18 years in academia and 18 + years running his businesses and
all his life since the age of four playing music.
Booking Information: -
Date: 22 April 2017
Location: ETC venue Maple House, Birmingham
Price: Price:
£65 members, £60 students, £75 guests.
To book
you place visit: -
Monday, 27 February 2017
CIMA West Midlands Free Event, “The economic contribution of industryin the West Midlands” on 15 March at the British Motoring Museum,Gaydon CV35 0BJ
We welcome
three excellent speakers to this exciting event in the West Midlands that will
complement the automotive industry, CIMA and business looking at the industrial
and economic development in the West Midlands. We look forward to hearing from
Andrew Miskin, CIMA President, Andy Street, ex CEO of John Lewis and Michael
Mychajluk from Jaguar Land Rover. The evening will include drinks and
networking and an opportunity to have a look around the British Motoring
Museum.
Speakers: -
Andrew Miskin will discuss the contribution
management accountants can make to economic development and growth in the
business world.
Andy Street will look at recent economic changes
and development in the West Midlands, using his knowledge from his time as CEO
at John Lewis and involvement with the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local
Enterprise Partnership.
Michael Mychajluk will look at the impact of Jaguar
Land Rover on the UK economy, supply chain, the future and how finance
professionals could learn from this.
Schedule: -
6.00 for
7.00pm – approximate finish time 9-9.30pm
6.00pm –
Arrival, drinks networking and tour of museum
7.00pm –
Welcome and talk Andrew Miskin, CIMA President
7.45pm –
Andy Street, ex CEO of John Lewis and West Midlands Mayoral candidate
8.15pm -
Michael Mychajluk, Supply Chain and External Engagement Manager, Government
Programmes at Jaguar Land Rover.
Booking Information: -
Date – 15th
March
Time – 18:00
Location -
British Motoring Museum, Gaydon CV35 0BJ
Price – 0.00
Contact
Julie Witts at Julie.Witts@aicpa-cima.com
to book your free place
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Use our Technological, Engineering and Manufacturing capabilities to help our armed forces protect the UK after Brexit.
Cut-backs
may balance the government’s books in times of austerity, but they don’t defend
our nation from the threat of aggressors – and we have recently seen the
Russian Aircraft Carrier Group sail through the English Channel twice, as well
as the numerous incursions into our airspace from Russian Tu-95 Bears.
Our last
remaining Aircraft Carrier, along with our Harrier Jump Jets, fell victim to
the 2010 cut-backs leaving us without a capability until the new Queen
Elizabeth carriers come in to service in the next 2 or 3 years, although the 24
£105m F-35 jump jets that will fly off them won’t be in service until 2023. Why
did the government not find the funds to have kept the capability that we had
in place until the replacements were ready to be introduced operationally? In
addition, it has been commented that these carriers are already irrelevant due
to China’s carrier killing DF-21 ballistic missile that has a top speed of Mach
10 and a range of 1,100 miles and due to the fact that there are not enough “destroyers,
frigates and submarines to protect the aircraft carriers”.
If the
reports are right, our new state-of-the-art Type 45 Destroyers are unable to
operate in warm waters without suffering engine problems that have shut them
down and left them adrift and stranded. The solution to the engine problem is
to spend yet more money cutting holes in them in order to replace the engines
with ones that work. Furthermore, it is reported that these Destroyers can be
heard 100 miles away by Russian submarines as they sound like “a box of
spanners” underwater. And these ships are so expensive that, at £1Bn each, the
original order for 12 was subsequently reduced to 6.
The
cheaper Type 26 combat ship is believed to have risen well above budget meaning
that the order for 13 has already been reduced to 8, and could reduce further
if costs continue to spiral.
The army’s
42-ton Ajax tanks are too heavy for the RAF’s new transport plane, the A400M,
which can only carry up to 25-tons. This means that the tanks would need
partially disassembling to deploy by air – not exactly rapid reaction is it?
The RAF’s
new maritime patrol aircraft, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, which doesn’t start to
arrive until 2019, cannot be refuelled in mid-air by our Voyager air-tankers,
and could be vulnerable to cyber-attack. And this is all after the scrapping of
the new Nimrod project in 2010. Sounds like more tax-payer money wasted unnecessarily
by politicians.
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drones were ordered in 2005 for £700m – that cost has now risen to £1.2Bn and they
have still not entered full service.
The
recent $28.8Bn expenditure on aircraft, drones and helicopters from the US
Military is also likely to be hit due to the 21% fall in value of the pound
since the UK voted to leave the European Union increasing the cost of the
equipment. Furthermore, due to the sensitivity of the technology on the US
supplied helicopters, software upgrades and some parts can only be supplied by
American nationals. You couldn’t make this up!
What
happened to the country that developed the Dreadnought warships that
revolutionised modern navies, and the invention of the tank that took armed
warfare from the trenches and made it more mobile? We also seem to have come a
long way from the cutting edge of aircraft design that we held for the first
three—quarters of the twentieth century (Sopwith Camel, Supermarine Spitfire,
Avro Lancaster, De Havilland Mosquito, Avro Vulcan, English Electric Lightning,
Hawker Siddeley Harrier, TSR2 etc.), although much aviation technology still
comes from the UK.
It also
seems a strange strategy to continually allow UK defence companies to
consolidate over the years until there is little or no competition – clearly the
outcome of such a near monopoly position is going to be higher costs and
reduced bargaining power for the government.
And is
the current meagre defence budget being spent in the best possible way to
defend our shores? Are the big tickets items such as aircraft carriers at
£6.2Bn each, Type 45 Destroyers at £1Bn each, F-35 jump jets at £105m each the
best value for money? Or should we have been extending the life of our original
carrier, keeping our Harrier Jump Jets, retaining the numbers within the ranks
of our armed services, ordering more Typhoon Eurofighters and building a more
joined up capability that takes in the modern aspects of cyber-warfare too?
A
cross-service approach to look at what we need to defend our island on land, on
sea and in the air, together with looking at the capabilities within the
technological, engineering and manufacturing sector of the UK’s industrial base
is surely the way to go – particularly within a post-BREXIT Britain where we
will need to rely upon our own independence even further. Smaller ticket items
to match the requirements of a full cross-service capability need identifying
and enacting now – we don’t want to be caught out as almost happened in the
1930s in a world that is rapidly changing. And this would be good for UK
business too; creating jobs, paying salaries, encouraging consumer spending, generating
tax for the government to spend on hospitals, schools, roads etc. as well as
keeping and enhancing skill sets and technology that can be sold to other
countries.
Monday, 23 January 2017
Wolverhampton Civic Halls revamp to start as Shaylor Group is appointed Contractor
Refurbishment work on Wolverhampton’s Civic Halls will begin today following the appointment of Shaylor Group as contractor.
Enabling work on the grade II-listed venue was completed in 2016 and the £14.4m will boost its capacity.
A bar will also be installed above the main entrance of the Civic Hall.
Both the Civic Hall and Wulfrun Hall will reopen between October 2017 and January 2018 and the revamp is scheduled for full completion in October 2018.
John Reynolds, City of Wolverhampton Council cabinet member for city economy, said: "This is an exciting time in the project when we will begin to see real changes to the Civic Halls.
"The halls have been around since 1938 and are an important part of our visitor economy – providing jobs and generating millions of pounds every year by staging nationally acclaimed shows.
"As part of our regeneration plans for the city we recognised the Grade II listed building is in need of refurbishment, as well as improvement to ensure it remains a thriving venue to be proud of."
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Business groups' 2017 priorities
Carolyn
Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, has jointly signed a letter alongside the
heads of other UK business groups outlining their priorities for firms of all
sizes and sectors for 2017.
The letter
below appears in The Sunday Telegraph:
Dear Sir
We are
committed to making 2017 a year of progress and success, and to working with
the Government to shape a better economy.
Industry
input into the Brexit negotiations is critical. The Government must enter
negotiations with the evidence it needs to understand the implications of the
decisions and trade-offs that lie ahead. This evidence must be drawn from the
on-the-ground experience of small, medium and large enterprises, which are
committed, despite an uncertain business environment, to delivering the
economic growth that creates jobs and funds our public services.
A modern
industrial strategy relies on a vision of our future shared between firms, the
Government and society. By calling on all the experience and knowledge
available across the UK, this new plan can transform our sectors and
communities.
Success in
all these areas depends on an open and honest dialogue and we welcome the
engagement we have had so far with the Government. Firms must work to be more
transparent and build fairness into the heart of their operations, including
their supply chains. The Government, employees and customers should champion
the businesses that do this. 2017 must be the year when this open dialogue
begins to deliver for Britain.
We the
undersigned commit to play our part, working with businesses from all corners
of the UK, to seize the opportunities and overcome the challenges that lie
ahead.
Yours
sincerely
Mike
Cherry, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses
Carolyn
Fairbairn, Director-General, CBI
Adam
Marshall, Director-General, British Chambers of Commerce
Terry
Scuoler, CEO, EEF
Simon
Walker, Director-General, Institute of Directors
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
CIMA North West Midlands Christmas social and networking evening in Stafford on Tuesday 13th December
Craig
Stevens, CIMA North West Midlands chairman, invites you to join him at this
event. You will have the chance to meet Craig, your local committee and fellow
members for a complimentary drink and food by dropping by anytime between 6.30
and 8.30pm.
This
event is open to all CIMA members and a great opportunity to build your
network, understand more about CIMA events planned for 2017 and for you to
voice your opinions on your branch.
Date: 13
December 2016
Time:
18:30
Venue: The
Swan Hotel, Stafford ST16 2JA
Price:
GBP 0.00
Email julie.witts@cimaglobal.com
to book your free place
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