Original Thinking Podcast

Hear from Capita, BT and experts from Alliance Manchester Business School as they discuss how 5G has the power to change the way we communicate, support economic growth and kick-start the next industrial revolution.

Industries across the UK are looking at 5G as the backbone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Industrial-grade wireless offers an opportunity to transform industry and healthcare; support millions of people with ultrafast internet speeds, and provide capacity for communications service providers to create and capture new market spaces by driving innovation, efficiency, and growth across various industries.

An online conversation facilitated by Professor Naomi Chambers, Professor of Health Management, Alliance MBS.

Speakers

• Sarah Walker, Director, Corporate & Public Sector (North & Midlands), BT

• Del Alibocus, Head of Internet of Things, Capita Consulting

• Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation, Alliance MBS

With thanks to our sponsors DWF and Capita Consulting.

During this Original Thinking Podcast a panel of industry experts will discuss both the positive and negative aspects of home and remote working that COVID-19 has highlighted.

The COVID-19 crisis has thrown light on both the positive and negative aspects of home and remote working. On the one hand workers have shown great resilience and resourcefulness in adapting to the challenges, demonstrating their commitment in the industries and sectors where it has been possible to do so. Indeed, as technology increasingly enables remote working, some employers are now considering a longer or even permanent shift to homeworking.

But is homeworking, and new forms of remote employment, the great panacea that some now think it is? And, if so, how can it be sustainable? Ongoing research at the Work & Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School suggests that remote working can be stressful, lead to greater work precarity and casualisation, and be fraught with ethical and equity challenges for HR professionals.

At this webinar Professor Tony Dundon from Kemmy Business School and Alliance Manchester Business School will be joined by Jonny Gifford, Senior Advisor for Organisational Behaviour at the CIPD, and Natasha Owusu, Policy & Campaigns Support Officer for Equalities at the TUC, to debate this most pressing issue of our time.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In this Original Thinking Podcast Dr Judit Csiszar, Senior Lecturer (Healthcare Management), Alliance MBS, will be joined by Masters students to discuss how pandemic simulation workshops can help prepare managers.

Protecting staff and controlling the spread of COVID-19 will now be essential for any organisation. Dr Judit Csiszar has been running pandemic simulation workshops since before the crisis on our MSc in International Healthcare Leadership (IHL) programme in Singapore and Dubai. The workshop, which is linked with the International Health Policy module of the Masters programme, has proven to be an effective way of teaching and learning about the complexity of decision-making in the midst of a rapidly evolving pandemic.

During this podcast Judit will be joined by students in Singapore and Dubai who have taken part in previous workshops to discuss the benefits that such simulation-based training offers to MBA and management and leadership education students.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In this Original Thinking podcast Mark Healey, Professor of Strategic Management, Alliance MBS, will discuss how to build a long term strategy beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

It’s a worrying time for SMEs running short of money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only will they be hit hard by a significant drop in customer revenue, traditional funders are also holding back, fearing an uncertain future. This lack of cash means reinvesting profits for organic growth is impossible, and simply paying the bills has become a challenge.

In this Original Thinking Podcast hear from our panellists as they explore the impact of COVID-19 on routes to funding for SMEs and discuss what lies ahead post-lockdown.

Panellists:

• Dr Robert A. Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, AMBS
• Tony Walker ,Deputy Director Masood Enteprise Centre, AMBS
• Dr Laura Etchells, Enterprise Business Development Manager, Masood Enterprise Centre, AMBS

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In January Alliance MBS hosted a Vital Topics event with keynote speaker Sacha Sadan (Director of Investor Stewardship at LGIM) arguing that ESG was now in the mainstream.

3 weeks later the Coronavirus crisis happened.

So, in a world dealing with a major pandemic and heading towards a global recession, is ESG still relevant?

Our experts argue that COVID-19 has shown exactly why a focus on environmental, social and governance factors is vital for all stakeholders (shareholders, employees and customers) but that history also shows us why we should employ professional scepticism when business leaders talk about ‘business purpose’ and specific ESG elements.

Our podcast will look at what we can learn from history, where we need to employ ‘caveat emptor’ (buyer beware), what needs to change and where the opportunities lie for the future.

Public services in the UK have faced unprecedented challenges over the past decade which the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying. Already under pressure budgets are being stretched further and the introduction of new technologies and services models is being accelerated to meet the demands of the new normal.

This presents an opportunity for a fresh look at productivity in public services – how we measure and value it, how it links to productivity in the private sector and broader concepts of well-being, and what innovative practices and policy interventions we can adopt in public services to support increased national prosperity.

In this podcast we discuss these issues and how we need to adapt as a country to drive productivity and improve well-being during the recovery.

Panelists:

- Professor Diane Coyle, co-director Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge

- Dr Elvira Uyarra, Reader in Innovation Policy and Strategy at Alliance Manchester Business School

- Professor Andy Westwood, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Government Practice, University of Manchester

- Donna Hall, Chair of the New Local Government Network and Honorary Professor of Politics

On this podcast, Professor Naomi Chambers discuses her observations of NHS leadership behaviours during COVID-19.

Naomi’s wide range of teaching, advisory and research interests include healthcare leadership, organisation culture, diversity and inclusion, board governance, clinicians in management, health care commissioning, health policy and management in Europe, primary care, patient and public involvement, emergency planning, e-health and clinical costing. Her publications and media profile reflect this breadth of interests.

Naomi is currently co-director of Leadership & Management in the Higher Specialist Healthcare Scientist Training (HSST) Programme. Previous teaching roles have included programme director for the Nye Bevan executive programme for aspiring NHS board directors, university lead for NHS Leadership Academy programmes, and Director of Executive Education. Outward facing roles have included President of the European Health Management Association and vice chair of NHS North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.

Two recent research projects have involved leading a team investigating changes in board level leadership in hospitals in England following the publication of the Francis Report into the failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Hospital Foundation Trust (completed 2018) and the evaluation of the content, applications and impacts of the NHS well-led framework on behalf of CQC and NHSI (completed 2020). Current projects include research for a book on organising care round patients to be published by Manchester University Press, a study on long serving NHS CEOs on what makes them tick and what keeps them going, and women’s experiences of urogynaecology services.

Drawing from her research, teaching and advisory experience, Naomi has an ongoing working relationship with a number of NHS boards and senior leadership teams supporting them to develop to meet the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s health and care systems. She is also in close collaborative contact with colleagues working in national regulatory and oversight bodies, and with independent policy organisations such as the Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation.

Forthcoming and recent publications:

Chambers N & Taylor J (2021:forthcoming) Organising Care Round Patients Manchester University Press

Sheaff R, Morando V, Chambers N, Exworthy M, Mahon A, Byng R, Mannion R ( 2020) Managerial workarounds in three European DRG systems Journal of Health Organization and Management https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-10-2019-0295

Snelling I, Benson L, Chambers N (2019) How trainee hospital doctors lead work-based projects Leadership in Health Services 33 (1) 85-100 DOI: 10.1108/LHS-12-2018-0064

Chambers N, Smith J, Proudlove N, Thorlby R, Kendrick H, Mannion R (2019) Roles and behaviours of diligent and dynamic healthcare boards Health Services Management Research . https://doi.org/10.1177/0951484819887507.

Chambers N and Exworthy M (2019) How to survive as an NHS chief executive Health Service Journal 17 June https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/how-to-survive-as-an-nhs-chief-executive/7025324.article#commentsJump

Smith J and Chambers N (2019) Mid Staffordshire: A case study of failed governance and leadership? Political Quarterly 14 June 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12698

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In this podcast we discuss how COVID-19 is impacting productivity today, and how government, business and workforce needs to adapt in order to drive productivity during the recovery.

Panellists

• Bart Van Ark, Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School and Executive Vice President and Global Chief Economist of The Conference Board (moderator).
• Tera Allas, Director of Research and Economics, McKinsey’s United Kingdom and Ireland Office.
• Alan Harding, Chief Economic Adviser at Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Visiting Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School.
• Vicky Pryce, Chief economic adviser and board member, Cebr.
• Anthony Venables, BP Professor of Economics; Director, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OXCARRE).

In this Original Thinking Podcast episode we will hear how staff from across The University of Manchester, led by Alliance MBS, are working with organisations around the UK and globally to develop successful plans for ensuring their recovery from COVID-19.

The team produces the ‘Manchester briefing on COVID-19’ each week which brings together international lessons and examples to prompt thinking on response to, and recovery from, COVID-19. Recipients are complementary about it: “really palatable and useful” (UK Local Authority senior manager), “There is a lot of great content” (Asia-Pacific, Managing director) and it is circulated to 250 individuals and, through an international partnership with the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN) a further 4,000 cities across the world.

Hear from members of the team Professors Ruth Boaden and Duncan Shaw, & Dr Jennifer Bealt, as they discuss their thoughts on recovery from COVID-19 and the development and impact of the Manchester Briefing.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.