NIBS Online - December 2003
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IBS Consulting is a new division of the International
Business School that has been created to focus on
the provision of management consulting support to
organisations operating in the Isle of Man and Europe. IBS Consulting
helps clients to improve their business performance through improvements
in Customer Service, Operational Excellence, Organisational Design, Knowledge Management and Management Development.
Peter Ginty of IBS Consulting talks about 'offshoring',
the movement of back-office processing posts from
west to east, in a recent interview with The Examiner's
business editor, John Sherrocks. In the interview Peter gives his views about how to stay one step ahead of the game...
An Economic Forum chaired by Professor Mike Lloyd-Williams
of the IBS has reviewed the IOM Government Treasury's
economic strategy which was released in October. The
forum was jointly hosted by the IBS and The Examiner's
Business News and it was reported that, " While
all forum members agreed the strategy provides a good
blue-print for future debate there was concern that the government may be slow to act on it."
A new English Language Programme is now available
at the IBS. It is primarily designed as a foundation
programme to help international students achieve the
level of English necessary to study on degree courses -
but people can also opt to study individual modules such as English
for Business. Programme manager, Bob Kirby, previously
worked for Harrow International School in Bangkok,
the British Council in Kuala Lumpur and also taught at the King Faisal Air Academy in Saudi Arabia.
The vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University
Professor Michael Brown visited the IBS recently and
was full of praise for staff and students saying that, "The
Manx people and government can be assured that the vision they supported is coming through."
Dr Leslie Gadman of the IBS has presented papers
at recent conferences in Paris and Oxford. The presentations
focussed on Sean's specialist interest in the areas of 'knowledge management' and 'innovation'.
The IBS celebrated its first Award Ceremony in
October. Education Minister Steve Rodan presented
awards to students who had completed qualifications
ranging from Masters degrees in FInancial Regulation and Compliance
Management to Chartered Management Institute awards. The ceremony
also highlighted the success of the Manx Centre for Management Development,
a joint venture between the IBS and the IOM College to offer the
full range of Chartered Management Institute qualifications from
level 2 for team leaders to level 5 for senior managers.
IBS lecturer, Dr Quentin Burrell, has been invited
to join an international panel of leading scholars
in the field of Information Science and to participate
in a study about the 'Knowlege Map of Information
Science'. He also has two publications in press for the Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Earlier
this year, Quentin gave a talk entitled '80/20 and all that: How to measure inequality' to the IOM Mathematical Society.
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