Centre for Enterprise Research and Innovation (CERI)

Current research

CERI has experience of interdisciplinary research projects for a broad spectrum of organisations - including sectors such as manufacturing, defence, health care, retail, local and voluntary - as well as general academic projects. The Centre can draw on both its skill base and the University's vast resources to build a team tailored to the needs of the project and organisation.

• Nick Capon is researching the adaptation of Lean methods to service organisations, in collaboration with EEF (South).
• Profesor Edward Borodzicz is researching the use of simulation as a learning aid for organisations to prepare for crises.
• Mark Jaques and Andrea Foley are developing a case based reasoning tool as a benchmarking diagnostic guide to aid small companies develop.
• Professor Ashraf Labib is researching AHP as a tool for maintenance management policy, in collaboration with Intel and Fleet Support Ltd.
• John Daly amd Sara Gentle are developing methods of testing business continuity resilience for a financial services company.
  
• Martin Read is a consultant to the Nuffield Foundation supported project "A Pilot Investigation of the Value of Group Process Support at Child Protection Conferences", led by the University of Glamorgan Business School.
• Naboth Tinarwo is investigating key events in the growth of successful social enterprises and whose support they most value at these times. The aim is to identify a useful role for the University towards this sector.
  

Publications

Publication of results to date of the research above and research by other CERI members are listed under individual member's home pages, see the team.