A business model may indeed be that a service is publicly funded ad infinitum, but that was never the intention for Intute.
I would frankly be gob smacked if Fred's employers, Nottingham University, doesn't have a business model, budgets or corporate plans. Yes, all educational establishments have to be run properly. Business does not necessarily imply profit.
Charles
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> Incidentally, if the rumours are true (I stress these are just rumours
> I have picked up over the years), Intute had ample warning from JISC
> about it''s unhappiness at the lack of development of a realistic
> business model for Intute.
"business model"? Funny, I could have sworn that Intute was a
publicly-funded educational service, not a business ;-|. If educational
bodies are required to be 'businesses' then that's most of them biting
the dust, then.
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
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