Best foot forward

(Photograph) - Best foot forward: as old business models buckle under the onslaught of a commerce, lecturers at Hull Business School are developing a course to help students develop ways of tackling rapid change. Dave Currie and colleagues are launching a virtual organisations course as part of the university's e commerce degree. Mr Currie, acting head of the department of organisational analysis, said the shift In the concept of how to run a business challenged the traditional idea of offices as a base for peoples working lives. "We will also examine the cyber-ethics of virtual organisations and the difficulties and implications of trying to regulate them," said Mr Currie. Photograph by HULTON GETTY.