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CBIT - Centre for Business and Industry Transformation

Unit(s) of assessment: Business and Management Studies

School: Nottingham Business School

Overview

CBIT - Centre for Business and Industry Transformation, is an integrated research approach bringing together industry transformation research, disruptive business practice, and education together into a continuous cycle.

We aim to:

  • Foster future leaders
  • Advance industry transformation research
  • Build disruptive businesses
  • Transform industry “norm”
  • Maximise positive impact in society and environment

This Centre will focus on helping businesses and entrepreneurs to transform their performance, productivity and innovative capability through a proven due-diligence methodology and techniques, which de-risks scaling up investment developed and delivered the core team. CBIT had three strands:

Research

CBIT focusses on working with industry partners to co-identify, co-design and co-deliver high-impact world-leading research. Informed by industry challenges, CBIT will also augment the existing research base through evidence-based venture building practice.

Venture Building

The Venture Builder is a distinct arm of CBIT, which has built a traction in empowering disruptive businesses to transform the industry “norm”. It analyses innovative businesses through “fitness assessment” for “blue ocean” market opportunities.

Education

CBIT team leads our flagship education programme – MSc Business Transformation. This is specifically designed for the family business successors, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and senior managers who will become the next CEO. The programme is brought by a team of practitioners who bring hands-on expertise and an applied teaching approach. With a proven track record in supporting students who are looking to develop and commercialise their own business idea.

We are currently open for PhD candidates to propose their own topics informed by practice.

Watch: Discover the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation

 

CBIT Venture Builder

The CBIT Venture Builder has accelerated disruptive business in many sectors, including:

  • FinTech – Personal Data based credit reference
  • AI and ML – VR in machinery maintenance; Re-Identification of anonymous crowd
  • Travel and Leisure – hotel management, social travel, etc
  • Mobility Solutions - in-wheel motor; personalised travel; test house platform
  • Food – agile food manufacturing
  • Farming and Agri – smart beef farm; urban farming; smart agri-tech
  • Construction – Net-Zero Concrete solution
  • Medical and MedTech Solutions
  • Personal Care & Cosmetics
  • Recycling and sustainable solutions
  • Battery Solutions
  • B2B Platforms and SAAS Solutions
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Clean Technologies
  • Security Solutions
  • High Value Manufacturing

Programme of research

The CBIT team has built a track record in accelerating disruptive technologies and creating applied research that benefits the wider society.

Our key research activities are in the fields of:

  • Digital Economy, particularly driven by Personal Data (owned by individuals) and PrivTech.
  • B2B platforms, competence mapping (for a region or sector) driven business collaboration, business cloud, and business benchmarking.
  • Transformative methodologies for businesses and their stakeholders in the value constellation: especially through the lens of system theory; service ecosystem; computational ontology; knowledge Representation.
  • Impact of technologies on business models, economic models, and society: particularly technological advancement from Data Science; IoT; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Personal Data.
  • Impact of technologies on business models, economic models and society: particular technology advancement from Data Science; IoT; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Personal Data;
  • Business transformation and new business models for achieving better sustainability and towards Net Zero.
  • Strategizing digital transformation and associated change management of businesses to develop intelligence.
  • Electrification of transport – a multi-country project for identifying enablers and capabilities to accelerate diffusion of Electric Vehicles.
  • Strategic implementation of circular economy principles as pro-active value adding components of sustainable business models (e.g., Triple-Bottom Line).

Typical application of our research in industries include:

  • Business Cloud for innovation capacity building, regonised by World Bank. This is through competence Mapping to identify regional economy strengths and weaknesses in order to stimulate innovations from reconfiguration of existing competences, or to invest into missing key competences. Application in the UK Manufacturing Sector and Singapore's high-value manufacturing sector.
  • International Business Benchmarking Platform (IBBP). A novel approach to profile and benchmark business (or branch) performances through non-financial measurement (soft factors). Adopted by UK Manufacturing Sector, German Manufacturing and service sector, and UK-China Digital Economy Lab.
  • Digital twin for beef farming to improve sustainability across value chain and enable alternative finance models;
  • Smart animal husbandry models to reduce methane emission.
  • Smart agriculture to transform Agri-machinery manufacturing.
  • A Distributed Manufacturing Platform to collaboratively co-create additive layer products across a network of 3D-printing machines.
  • Privacy risk assessment and management tool for personal data shared across online service. Early adoption test in travel industry.

Flagship projects

Thank you to our business partners and funders, including EPSRC, ERDF, High Value Manufacturing Catapult, and Innovate UK, and the CBIT team.

They have led and/or contributed to a range of industry-academic collaborative research projects, including:

  • BBSRC - The Blue Zone Consortium - Flexible Talent Mobility Accounts (FTMA)
  • Innovate UK – Using AI-based tools to dynamically configure the supply chain and enhance its resilience (with Elite Capital) ·
  • British Council - Future Leader’s adoption of ESG Driven MOre Sustainable MOre Profitable (MOSMOP) Business Model Innovation
  • EPSRC funded - PRIvacy-aware personal data management and Value Enhancement for Leisure Travellers (PriVELT)
  • High Value Manufacturing Catapult funded - WMG Accelerator
  • ERDF funded - The International Institute for Product and Service Innovation.
  • H2020 - IMAGINE
  • H2020 - KET4CleanProduction
  • Innovate UK Funded – PLATFORM
  • Innovate UK Funded - IMPACT
  • EPSRC Funded - Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space (FAIR-SPACE)
  • EPSRC funded - Control and Trust as Moderating Mechanisms in addressing Vulnerability for the Design of Business and Economic Models (ConTriVE)
  • EPSRC Funded - Home Hub-of-all-Things (HAT) as Platform for Multi-sided Market powered by Internet-of-Things: Opportunities for New Economic & Business Model
  • EPSRC funded - Smart Me versus Smart Things: The Development of a Personal Resource Planning (PRP) System through Human Interactions with Data Enabled by the IoT
  • EPSRC funded - ACCEPT: Addressing Cybersecurity and Cybercrime via a co-Evolutionary aPproach to reducing human-relaTed risk
  • EPSRC funded - Digital Economy 'New Economic Models' Network+

CBIT latest news

CBIT Venture Builder empowering ‘disruptive’ East Midlands startups

Nottingham Business School to support digital transformation at BarberBoss

Global project launched to help ESG-driven businesses become more profitable

Students put entrepreneurship skills to the test during Start-up Marathon

New centre to support disruptive business and industry transformation launched at Nottingham Business School

CBIT latest publications

Cao, D., Meadows, M. and Ma, X., 2024. Thinking fast and slow: a revised SOR model for an empirical examination of impulse buying at a luxury fashion outlet. European Journal of Marketing, 58(1), pp.342-368.

Chatha, K.A., Jajja, M.S.S., Gillani, F. and Farooq, S., 2023. Examining the effects of technology–organization–environment framework on operational performance through supply chain integration of the firm. Benchmarking: An International Journal.

Yuan, H., Boakes, M., Ma, X., Cao, D. and Li, S., 2023, June. Visualising Personal Data Flows: Insights from a Case Study of Booking. com. In International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (pp. 52-60). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Miao, Y., Huang, N., Ma, X., Zhang, Q. and Han, J., 2023. On exploring pose estimation as an auxiliary learning task for Visible–Infrared Person Re-identification. Neurocomputing, 556, p.126652.

Gillani, F., Jajja, S. The impact of institutional voids on electric vehicle initiatives in a developing country context. INFORMS, Arizona, USA from October 15-16, 2023.

Gillani, F., Ma, X., Cao, D. Digital Twin for Smart Farming – The case of sustainability in Beef Farming Supply Chains. British Academy of Management, Brighton, UK from September 5 -6, 2023.

Gillani, F., Ma, X. MoSMoP – More Sustainable, More Profitable Businesses – Avenues for Research and Industrial Impact. Conducted at British Academy of Management, September 1, 2023

CBIT team

  • Lucas Benkemoun, Frontend Developer
  • Eiman Kanjo, IOT Lead and Professor of Pervasive Sensing at CSD
  • Sanjiv Patel, CBIT Sales and Growth Specialist, NBS
  • Dalraj Nijjar, CBIT Growth Consultant, NBS
  • Marios Tsekis, Backend Developer
  • Kostas Galanakis, Modelling Innovation System Lead, NBS
  • Mohamad Imad Mahaini, Open Source Developer

Academic advisory board members

Professor Kiran Fernandes

Professor Kiran Fernandes is the Associate Dean for Internationalisation at Durham University having served as the Head of Department and Professor of Operations Management from 2013 to 2017.

Professor Roger Maull

Roger Maull is Professor of Management Systems at the University of Exeter’s Business School and Academic Director of the Initiative for the Digital Economy at Exeter (INDEX), which is based on London’s South Bank.

Professor Shujun Li

Shujun Li is Professor of Cyber Security at Kent’s School of Computing and is the Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). In this role, Shujun leads cyber security research and education activities across the whole university.

Professor Julie Davies

Professor Julie Davies is Director of the MBA Health in the UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH). She is an Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review and co-chairs the research development committee for the University Forum for Human Resource Development.

Professor lis Tussyadiah

Iis Tussyadiah is Professor of Intelligent Systems in Service, Head of School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and Fellow of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence at University of Surrey.