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Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (MMUBS) can trace its history as a provider of business education back to 1889. Today, MMUBS is a 'full-range' business school, offering undergraduate, postgraduate and higher research degrees in all major sub-disciplines of business and management, engaging in applied research and providing in-house courses and consultancy services for corporate clients.
With some 3,000 undergraduate and 1,500 postgraduate students (including 60 PhD and 350 professional accounting students), MMUBS is one of the largest business schools in the UK. MMUBS offers a comprehensive range of postgraduate qualifications from diplomas to doctoral degrees, providing a 'ladder' of opportunities for individuals at different stages of their business and management careers.
MMUBS has a well-established tradition of offering high quality postgraduate management and business education. Their portfolio of general management and specialist masters programmes not only reflects the latest thinking in management and business, it also benefits from a solid research base as well as extensive links with industry, commerce and the public sector.
Ian Jindal
Course Tutor, MSc in Internet Retailing
Tutor for: Managing Digital Teams
Ian creates and transforms digital businesses in retail and publishing. Ian works to create sizeable and demanding businesses from initial idea, or to effect a step-change within complex, multi-stakeholder enterprises: working with the board and either directly leading teams or mentoring senior internal leaders.
Ian has been responsible for P&Ls from £5m to £400m within organisations of up to £3.3bn turnover. Since 1991 Ian has operated at Board level, either as director, CEO or investor.
Ian now works as an executive (leading business transformation at Board level), non-executive (working with Board and CEOs to build businesses) and investor (founding and growing early-stage companies). Consulting clients include House of Fraser, Austin Reed, Reiss, Couturelab, Otto UK, The British Council, IPC Media, Westfield Shopping Towns and David Morris.
Ian is committed to skills and peer development within industry sector. Ian founded InternetRetailing (with Mark Pigou), the European eCommerce Forum (with Joris Beckers), the UK’s first Post-Graduate Diploma in Internet Retailing (with Econsultancy.com, accredited by Manchester Metropolitan University) and RetailGreen.eu. Ian is a course assessor for the Masters in Digital Marketing and a tutor on the Post-Graduate Diploma in Digital Publishing.
Ian is a regular keynote speaker and conference chair, providing insight and stimulus on ecommerce, the attention economy, open standards, future developments and today’s demanding digital customers. Recent engagements include Econsultancy, Adobe/Scene 7, Bazaarvoice, Sky, London College of Fashion, the International Association of Department Stores and Google UK.
Previously he was Group E-commerce Director for Littlewoods Shop Direct Group where he grew online revenues to £400m per annum. Before that Ian was Head of Online Operations at the BBC, establishing the team that built over 400 BBC websites. Ian was also Business Development Director for Thomson Science & Professional, is a non-executive Director of Business Link for London, and founder of the European eCommerce Forum.
