Dr Simon Polovina chairs ‘From Industrial Revolution to Digital Innovation’ – Friday 26 January 2018

On Friday 26 January 2018, Dr Simon Polovina will co-chair a Digital Innovation Event for the Global University Alliance at Birmingham City University. The event ‘Industrial Revolution to Digital Innovation’ is for executives, industry practitioners, academics and researchers alike, and has been designed to provide insight and knowledge sharing of how digital innovation and transformation is impacting various industries. Today, […]

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New Masters of Research (MRes) course launched in Computing

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A new Masters of Research (MRes) course entitled “Computing (Enterprise Systems, Transformation and Innovation)” is being offered by Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The MRes is taught by leading research-active academics and industrial practitioners, supported by the professional and vendor-neutral enterprise standards body LEADing Practice. The course, led by Dr Simon Polovina, is designed as study blocks so that […]

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Journal Editorship: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications

Front cover IJSSA, IGI Publishing

Title: International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications Publisher: IGI Global Editors:  Dr Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University Established 2013 Published: Semi-Annually ISSN: 2166-7292   CCRC’s Dr Simon Polovina and Professor Simon Andrews are joint editors-in-chief of the International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA).   The journal is now being indexed […]

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Wednesday 11 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Hans-Jurgen Scheruhn (Business Informatics, Harz University of Applied Sciences Germany)

An image of Professor Hans-Jurgen Scheruhn (Business Informatics, Harz University of Applied Sciences Germany)

Title: From conceptual models of understanding business to models of business IT application, through the lens of an SAP case study Speaker: Professor Hans-Jürgen Scheruhn (Professor of Business Informatics, Department of Automation and Computer Science, Harz University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, Germany) Hosted by: Dr Simon Polovina (Business Computing, SHU) Professor Scheruhn obtained his PhD in Engineering from Hanover University […]

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Wednesday 28 October 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Simon Polovina (Business Computing, SHU)

Diagram of connections of SHU Enterprise, student experience and vision/mission

Title: Models, Conceptual Structures, and Enterprise Architecture Speaker: Dr Simon Polovina (Business Computing, SHU) Many disciplines rely on models to represent reality. Models may range from a miniature representation of some physical entity, to a simplified representation of a system or phenomenon so we can understand and test it. Not all models can represent their corresponding real-world entities as easily […]

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