November 2011
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Unique E-Business Summer project in China
Interesting story about one of our students Patrick Bonfils who worked in China as part of his summer project for his dissertation on the MSc in E-Business and Innovation
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/23408/beijing-placement/
February 2011
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Virtual Postgraduate Open day Friday 18th of Feb...
hello,
Just to inform you that we have a virtual open day for the MSc in E-Business and Innovation programme on Friday the 18th of February 2011. For our programme, we will start at 12pm UKtime until 1-30pm.
If you cannot make it, you can always contact us at any time, my email is email:d.soopramanien@lancs.ac.uk
for more information about the open day here’s the link:
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December 2010
2 posts
Cloud Computing Lecture-Guest Lecture from IBM
John Easton - an IT Executive and Technical Leader at IBM - gave a well-received talk on the business challenges of cloud computing to EBIN and ITMOC students as well as faculty. He stressed how cloud computing responds to IT customers’ need to do more with a lot less, i.e. reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses, by switching to a pay-per-use IT delivery model. He also...
Graduation-Congratulations to the EBIN graduates
Congratulations to the EBIN graduates from the 2009-10 cohort! We were delighted to welcome back our students for the graduation ceremony which took place on Wednesday 15th of December 2010. It was great to catch up with the cohort from 2009-10 and to meet the relatives and friends of the graduates. Many said that they would miss the place but said that they would stay in touch with the...
January 2010
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E-Business and Innovation graduate demonstrates...
MSc in E-Business and Innovation graduate Chris Ramsbottom returned to Lancaster recently to give a guest lecture on how his company, Premier Farnell, uses Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate knowledge exchange.
Chris, who completed the MSc in E-Business and Innovation (EBIN) in 2007, demonstrated Premier Farnell’s new online community, element14, and the company’s use of social media.
Premier...
March 2009
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San Francisco Beckons For Nokia Competition...
Lancaster University EBIN students Lucy Read, Przemyslaw Kowalski, and Costantinos Rougeris have won the first stage of the Forum Nokia Mobile Games Competition 2009.
More than 40 students from different disciplines attended GameJam@InfoLab21 - a 24hr mobile game design competition for university students initiated by Forum Nokia and co-organized by the Mobile Radicals at InfoLab21.
The...
February 2009
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Jyoti Banerjee (Agitavi Research Europe) speaks to...
Today Jyoti Banerjee from Agitavi gave a talk to EBIN students about emerging business models for Software-as-a-Service (Saas). Agitavi is a world-wide business research and consulting firm specializing in business strategy, services marketing and, software innovation management and entrepreneurship.
Jyoti discussed the technical opportunities of SaaS but highlighted the fact that it is far from...
December 2008
2 posts
EBIN Student studies WIMAX roll-out in Pakistan
In 2007 EBIN student Ammar Waheed spent a few months in Pakistan to investigate business and technology aspects of WIMAX wireless broadband technology. This research was part of his EBIN Industry Consultancy Project in preparation for his MSc dissertation.
Ammar just now informed me that he got hired by Telenor, one of the firms he worked with during his dissertation. His role at Telenor is...
12 EBIN Students aim for SAP Certification
12 of our 23 EBIN students this year (2008/09) have signed up for the SAP TERP1e online course with the goal to become SAP certified. Students will have one year to complete the course, but most are expected to take the examination in August. The SAP Consultant Certification: Solution Architect ERP - Integration of Business Processes with SAP ERP 2005 is awarded to those passing this exam
I wish...
October 2008
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EBIN Programme offers SAP Certification
SAP knowledge and skills are increasingly becoming important for IT and business graduates. I am thus very excited about a new initiative by SAP that enables our EBIN students to gain a professional certification in SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
Starting this year, all EBIN students are eligible to take the TERP1e online course run by SAP that includes the following subjects: ERP Basics,...
September 2008
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New EBIN Module on 'Software Innovation and...
The new academic year brings exciting changes to the MSc in E-Business and Innovation.
We have added two new modules:
EBIN526 System Dependability
EBIN527 Software Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(I talked about EBIN526 System Dependability in an earlier blog entry).
EBIN527 Software Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a project-based course in which students, working in small groups,...
August 2008
2 posts
EBIN510 Innovation course wins (unofficial)...
As in years before, EBIN510 - Innovation was the EBIN module that our students liked the best during the academic year 2007/08. The course is taught by Prof Mary Rose and Mike Parsons. Students especially like Mary’s and Mike’s innovative teaching style that doesn’t rely on lecturers but makes extensive use of online discussions, learning logs and interactive workshops.
Congratulations!
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Innovation through IT Architecture
According to Gartner Group’s 2008 Worldwide Survey of CIOs, 85 percent of CIOs are now looking toward “IT to make the difference in their enterprise strategy.” The question is now how business and IT strategy can be linked and how a firm can use IT to achieve break-through innovation. Increasingly the answer lies in an development and management approach that focuses on IT architecture. The EBIN...
June 2008
3 posts
New EBIN Module on System Dependability
The new academic year brings exciting changes to the MSc in E-Business and Innovation.
We have added two new modules:
EBIN526 System Dependability
EBIN527 Software Innovation and Entrepreneurship
EBIN526 ‘System Dependability’ explores how computer and IT systems can be designed to be dependable. The module takes a broad socio-technical perspective on system dependability, considering a wide...
EBIN and MET Office investigate novel E-Commerce...
Three of our EBIN students are helping the MET Office, the leading UK weather forecasting service, to define innovative E-commerce solutions. This is part of the students’ industrial summer project and will become the basis for their dissertations. The primary aim of the project will be to increase commercial revenue and to promote the visibility and reputation of the Met Office brand.
The Met...
EBIN Students investigate Social E-Commerce...
A part of an industrial consultancy project, three EBIN students investigate the potential of Web2.0 technologies for improving the e-commerce offerings of Premier Farnell, a leading global electronics distributor.
The students will work with Premier Farnell’s Innovation Lab in London which was created to accelerate Innovation.
May 2008
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IBM Workshop on IT Architecture gives EBIN...
Mike Broomhead, Executive IT Architect at IBM UK, two of his colleagues and myself just finished teaching EBIN525 - “Managing IT Architecture”. We taught this module for the first time this year and thus I am especially proud that our students not only did an excellent job (as indicated by their final marks), but that the feedback we received from them was overwhelmingly positive.
Perhaps this is...
October 2007
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IBM and EBIN team up to deliver IT Architecture...
IBM and the MSc in E-Business and Innovation at Lancaster University programme have teamed up to deliver a new course on ‘Managing IT Architecturre’. This course will be taught by professional IT Architects from IBM with long-running experience in managing and leading large-scale IT projects. This new module is an exciting addition to the EBIN programme; it is an example of the close collaboration...
August 2007
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Welcome to the EBIN Blog
This blog is intended to provide insights in the MSc in E-Business and Innovation (EBIN Programme at Lancaster University in England. The EBIN programme is a joint collaboration by Management School, Computing Department and Knowledge Business centre at Lancaster University.
In particular I will discuss how we teach the programme, how we work with industry and in general want to keep you...