Phil Davies

Profile

Phil Davies, Senior Lecturer

Phil Davies teaches strategy and general management at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Bedfordshire Business School. He is interested in how to teach strategy to undergraduates in a way that uses real life companies rather than theories. He is an experienced teacher and has run programmes throughout Europe and the Middle East for companies and for postgraduates. Past clients include the MOD, Helsinki School of Business, Airbus, and various charities.

Phil remains an associate of Cranfield School of Management where he has run change management and leadership programmes. He consults for private and public sector organisations up to Board level. Prior to joining Bedfordshire Phil taught strategic management at Cranfield School of Management and was a senior manager in the NHS. His first career was as an officer in the Intelligence Corps with service in Hong Kong, Germany and Northern Ireland.

Research Interests

Phil’s current research interests are on how strategy happens in practice. He has also published articles on the link between social networks and innovation as well as how business strategy relates to military strategy. He ran a lecture series at Cranfield exploring the link between business thinking and philosophy

Articles

Philip N Davies (2002) “ Military strategy” In Eds. Mark Jenkins and Veronique Ambrosini Strategic Management: a multi-perspective approach London: Palgrave
Philip N Davies and Mitchell P Koza (2001) “Eating soup with a fork: how informal social networks influence innovation in high technology firms.” Strategic Change 10:95-102
Philip N Davies (1998) “ The Cassandra Complex: how to avoid generating a vision that no one buys into.” In Eds. Andrew Kakabadse, Frederic Nortier and Nello-Barnard Abramovici. Success in Sight: Visioning London: International Thompson Business Press

Education

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1971-1973) Regular Commissioning Course Top Ten Academic order of Merit
Exeter College, Oxford University. Modern History. 2:1 (1975-1978)
Cranfield School of Management. MBA (1990-1991)