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Outsourcing bridges the accounting skills gap for SMEs
Running a small or medium business involves managing a range of priorities and challenges, many of which can needlessly burden the management team. By investing in qualified accounting resource, finance doesn’t need to contribute to the burden.
PhD student wins prestigious Google Fellowship
Cambridge University Department of Engineering PhD student Thang Bui has been awarded one of 15 prestigious Google European Doctoral Fellowships for his research into speech technology.
Munro races to raise £3000
Mechanical and electrical installation specialists help raise funds towards the new Arthur Rank Hospice Charity hospice, with a tremendous day out at the July Races.
Hagen scoops top job at CUHP
Dr Hans Hagen is to join Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) as its chief operating officer and research lead on 10 August 2015.
The emerging needs of the corrugated print industry
A vision from Steve Wood, Marketing Manager, Corrugated Display & Packaging, FUJIFILM Speciality Ink Systems. Fujifilm are the exclusive distributor of Inca's Onset flatbed printers.
Cambridge Sensotec celebrates its 15-year anniversary!
July 2015 has marked the 15-year anniversary since Cambridge Sensotec began manufacturing the Rapidox gas analyser range.
St John’s College leads the way with first French culinary exchange
A Cambridge College has recently achieved a ‘training first’ by hosting two French students from an internationally-renowned Hotel School, to share experiences and examples of best practice with its own catering and front of house teams.
Funding for the creative industries
The Creative local growth fund recognises how arts and culture can contribute to local economic growth by helping fund activity to support the creative industries, tourism and a stronger cultural sector by levering in EU Structural and Investment Funds from Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Monument Trust donates an additional £5 million to Cambridge Judge Business School
Monument Trust donates an additional £5 million to Cambridge Judge Business School, bringing its total contribution to £18 million.
November dates for two new executive pay courses from Yellow Hat
Saffron Walden-based Reward consultancy Yellow Hat is offering two new one-day seminars in executive pay as part of the E-reward ‘Mastering Reward’ series.
PTC and Stratasys collaborate to define and deliver design for additive manufacturing
Market leaders enable seamless design-to-3D print workflow.
PTC & Stratasys introduce seamless Design-to-3D print workflow at PTC Live 2015
PTC and Stratasys today announced the companies are working together to deliver a seamless experience between PTC Creo® design software and Stratasys 3D Printing Solutions, allowing designers and manufacturers to perform informed design specification, file preparation, print optimization and print execution from within the PTC Creo 3.0 environment.
New opportunities in the $24 billion wearable technology industry
IDTechEx Research forecasts that the wearable technology market will rise from $24.2 billion in 2015 to three times that size in ten years - creating a market of $74 billion in 2025.
Councillor raises funds for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity by raffling a flight over the city
A flight over Cambridge is being offered for the price of a £5 raffle ticket after Councillor Paul Bullen decided he would like to raise funds for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.
Another record 12 months on cards as Cooper Lomaz celebrates 25 years
Independent East Anglian recruitment company Cooper Lomaz is set to celebrate a quarter century of success with another record-breaking year in Cambridge. It expects to earn 30% of 2015’s £5.4m fees income from matching candidates to jobs in Cambridge alone.
'Jolly Old Beast' - a dinosaur song revived after 160 years
On New Year’s Eve 1853 a group of entrepreneurs dined inside the mould of a giant model iguanodon and, it is reported, sang a rousing song in praise of dinosaurs. The chorus runs: 'The jolly old beast/Is not deceased/There’s life in him again! ROAR.'
Make more of meetings with new LC course
Many people spend an inordinate amount of time in meetings, but how can we make sure meetings help us achieve our objectives? A course from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration (LC) next month will help you make sure your meetings are productive.
Learn how to do better business
Helping Cambridge Network members do better business is the underlying principle of all its Learning Collaboration courses. Courses coming up next month are no exception, as they respectively aim to help you overcome cultural barriers and understand finance.
Your chance to benefit from quality training held locally
Did you know that, as a Cambridge Network member, you have the opportunity to benefit from quality training courses held locally? Coming up soon in the Network's Learning Collaboration calendar: presentation skills for novice presenters, and finance for non-financial managers.
Learning Collaboration courses help businesses grow
Courses designed to help businesses grow - by giving supervisory responsibilities to existing people, or recruiting new staff - are on offer next month from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration.
Technology and innovation strategy: learn from your peers
Are you responsible for leading the technology and innovation strategy of your organisation? If so, you might value the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with your peers in a special group set up by Cambridge Network’s Learning Collaboration.
How well do you manage your time?
If you think there's room for improvement in how you manage your time, consider signing up for the forthcoming Time Management course being run by Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration on Tuesday July 1st.
Enhance your people skills with the Learning Collaboration
Good business practice demands the ability to manage relationships and communicate effectively with people at all levels. Upcoming courses from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration will help you learn, respectively, how to handle conflict, and the gentle art of persuasion.
Management and leadership training on the rise
More and more Cambridge businesses are growing - and promoting from within, if the latest course figures from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration (LC) are anything to go by. Its most popular training course by far is 'Transition to Management', which has been attended by an astonishing 240 people in the past 12 months alone.
Courses help managers to enhance their skills
Managers keen to enhance their people and leadership skills will benefit from upcoming courses from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration.