Entrepreneurship and Creativity this semester is thought by Professor Nelson Oly Ndubisi. A well liked lecturer with the reputation of keeping the class lively and has an affinity with Durian.
His first session was held last Saturday 10-1pm as a replacement to his supposed KL Day debut for 2010.
This module of course takes us through the importance of entrepreneurship and its creativity, the theoretical approaches and behavior of entrepreneurs, six stage problem solving and many more.
This Module is a 50% coursework and 50% 2 hour examination of 2/6 questions.
He also emphasizes that everyone has creativity. It is more on how one expresses it. that makes a difference. Some may be creative in pre-conceptual creativity (Inventing innovations) while others are stronger in post conceptual creativity.
The session also encourages the students to identify our own strengths and weaknesses to better place ourselves in our team.
The Six stage problem solving process takes us through 6 roles
An Explorer, A Detective, An Artist, An Engineer, a Judge, and a Producer.
Each has its different approaches, and strengths to solve a problem.
Nelson takes a more light heart approach to things and plays around with the class. Encouraging more creativity I suppose as is the whole objective of his class...
...To tell us that all of us are creative.
Monday, February 08, 2010
First MBA Class - Innovation Management
The first Class of my MBA Wednesday 27th Jan 2010 held from 630 - 900pm ( We ended early this time). I noticed that quite a number of the students were full time students and that only a handful (Including myself) that were part time first semesters.
Veterans spoke freely and confidently from various backgrounds. R&D, Business, Law, accounting, Engineering. There were those with decades of experience but looked like teenagers.
Anyway my first class was on 'Innovation management', the lecturer, Dr.Rosniwati seem to do well as a moderator of the class, and i find that she was quite updated to the current affairs.
The class was more of an introduction; overview of the entire course. For this one, there will not be an exam, BUT there will be a group presentation as well as a 3000 short essay.
The Group presentation would be a 4-5 person group and would have to be an Innovation Audit on any company of which i would suppose will determine if they are of a steady-state nature or a discontinuous/disruptive nature, or a good mixture of both?
As for the essay, it would be on our 2-cents of how we would recommend some improvement to the Innovation department of that particular company.
Many issues and examples were flying into the discussion including, Air Asia, Apple, somehow Viagra came in as well, Virgin, Nokia, Toyota; many of which had their unique take in the business world.
In this context, an innovation would be an upgrade/evolution of a particular product may it be incremental or radical and would have to have to contain an economical value.
i suppose the gist of the first class was to open the minds of the students to what innovations can effect an economy, various models of which many of the Fortune 500 are based on. Only 60% of those who made it sustained through the decade. And What analyzing and recommendations could effect the outcome of each particular company.
Innovations are sometimes to the extent of braining the innovation team right to the resorts and away from restriction for they understand that creativity blooms with freedom.
During the breakout session, the Dr. came up with a small exercise. On whose innovation would be the best and how to think out of the box. We made paper planes. And the best would obtain the best revenue.
Which would be the case in the open market with plenty of contenders.
As a homework our team requested to come up with a Team name.
Veterans spoke freely and confidently from various backgrounds. R&D, Business, Law, accounting, Engineering. There were those with decades of experience but looked like teenagers.
Anyway my first class was on 'Innovation management', the lecturer, Dr.Rosniwati seem to do well as a moderator of the class, and i find that she was quite updated to the current affairs.
The class was more of an introduction; overview of the entire course. For this one, there will not be an exam, BUT there will be a group presentation as well as a 3000 short essay.
The Group presentation would be a 4-5 person group and would have to be an Innovation Audit on any company of which i would suppose will determine if they are of a steady-state nature or a discontinuous/disruptive nature, or a good mixture of both?
As for the essay, it would be on our 2-cents of how we would recommend some improvement to the Innovation department of that particular company.
Many issues and examples were flying into the discussion including, Air Asia, Apple, somehow Viagra came in as well, Virgin, Nokia, Toyota; many of which had their unique take in the business world.
In this context, an innovation would be an upgrade/evolution of a particular product may it be incremental or radical and would have to have to contain an economical value.
i suppose the gist of the first class was to open the minds of the students to what innovations can effect an economy, various models of which many of the Fortune 500 are based on. Only 60% of those who made it sustained through the decade. And What analyzing and recommendations could effect the outcome of each particular company.
Innovations are sometimes to the extent of braining the innovation team right to the resorts and away from restriction for they understand that creativity blooms with freedom.
During the breakout session, the Dr. came up with a small exercise. On whose innovation would be the best and how to think out of the box. We made paper planes. And the best would obtain the best revenue.
Which would be the case in the open market with plenty of contenders.
As a homework our team requested to come up with a Team name.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
MBA Induction!!
The beginnings are always easy. No expectations, no background, full of hopes.....also its a Briefing so no pressure at all. But on the part of the organizers, a 1 and a half hour briefing turned out to be a 2 and an a half hour one.
Nonetheless, they were very accommodating and tried to shorten their presentations as much as they can without losing the gist of the presentation.
nothing much to say about the first day. Other than, I've decided to take 'Entrepreneurship and Creativity' and 'Innovation Management'. So my Mondays and Wednesdays will be taken up I suppose.
Till Wednesday then.
Cheers!
Nonetheless, they were very accommodating and tried to shorten their presentations as much as they can without losing the gist of the presentation.
nothing much to say about the first day. Other than, I've decided to take 'Entrepreneurship and Creativity' and 'Innovation Management'. So my Mondays and Wednesdays will be taken up I suppose.
Till Wednesday then.
Cheers!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Juzzy Does MBA!
Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!
In a week's time, I will enroll as a student (once again) into the University of Nottingham in Malaysia to kick off my MBA course. Now I'm sure there are some who DO blog about their courses, so I too hope that this blog will keep me on track as I move along. Much like those video logs in Avatar. Which I think is an awesome movie :).
This is gonna be a 4 year course because I will be taking it part time. Hence i do hope there will be a difference when I graduate in the end.
On another note, I have also just joined the MII(Malaysian Insurance Institute) Toastmaster's Club. I figured if I had to go into the business/ management world, I should hone some public speaking skills too. Writing and speaking is two different things altogether. One cannot Backspace a sentence spoken. It'll probably also help with the communication for purpose of networking and future communications.
As for the Tricade? I'm in the midst of learning a piano piece called 'Way Back into love' from the movie "Music & Lyrics", Dad is taking me to the Driving range for Golf this Wednesday, and I'm locked in for a trip to Perth in April.
Tricade Challenge Kuuga? "Protecting everyone's Smile"? Well Ive been really good with One liners both on Sunday with the Outcast Group and yesterday with the Ex-Mumsu gang. And they seem to be ROLFing rather than just smiling, so I must say I did a pretty good job. Still there's still the ultimate test of cheering up a down person. Its so difficult to not get sucked in too. But I suppose I'll have to workout the limits.
Well I guess that's progress for now. Hope to be updating more often on my MBA progress and hopefully getting feedback from more people. ^.^
In a week's time, I will enroll as a student (once again) into the University of Nottingham in Malaysia to kick off my MBA course. Now I'm sure there are some who DO blog about their courses, so I too hope that this blog will keep me on track as I move along. Much like those video logs in Avatar. Which I think is an awesome movie :).
This is gonna be a 4 year course because I will be taking it part time. Hence i do hope there will be a difference when I graduate in the end.
On another note, I have also just joined the MII(Malaysian Insurance Institute) Toastmaster's Club. I figured if I had to go into the business/ management world, I should hone some public speaking skills too. Writing and speaking is two different things altogether. One cannot Backspace a sentence spoken. It'll probably also help with the communication for purpose of networking and future communications.
As for the Tricade? I'm in the midst of learning a piano piece called 'Way Back into love' from the movie "Music & Lyrics", Dad is taking me to the Driving range for Golf this Wednesday, and I'm locked in for a trip to Perth in April.
Tricade Challenge Kuuga? "Protecting everyone's Smile"? Well Ive been really good with One liners both on Sunday with the Outcast Group and yesterday with the Ex-Mumsu gang. And they seem to be ROLFing rather than just smiling, so I must say I did a pretty good job. Still there's still the ultimate test of cheering up a down person. Its so difficult to not get sucked in too. But I suppose I'll have to workout the limits.
Well I guess that's progress for now. Hope to be updating more often on my MBA progress and hopefully getting feedback from more people. ^.^
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