Categories: Business and Change, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b822, creativity, management, mba, oubs
I just finished my last MBA elective called B822 “Innovation, Creativity and Change” at the Open University Business School. (Part of the reason why it was a bit more quiet in my blog than usual). I’d highly recommend this course to anyone interested in bringing out creativity in themselves or their teams. During these studies [...]
Categories: Business and Change, Events, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , creativity, facilitating, mba, oubs
Brainstorming?!! I have to admit that I lately wasn’t too excited about that any more. Luckily, I got a refresher and new impetus on how brainstorming can be done, and how powerful it can be. One of the many things I took away from my OUBS B822 Residential School Jan 7-9. Looking back, my appreciation [...]
Categories: Events, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b822, training
– This article was written Jan 7, posted now due to WLAN issues while travelling and a generally full schedule ;) – I am sitting on the train to Holland, Noordwijkerhout, which is appr 30min away from the Schiphole airport, at the coast of the Northern Sea. I’ll be spending the next 2.5days there at [...]
Categories: Agile, Business and Change, MBA Studies Tags: , creativity, management, oubs
Since November, I am studying in the OUBS course ‘Creativity, Cognition and Development’ which so far is really enjoyable. Yes, there are tons of materials to read, listen to, and watch. They are well-prepared and intellectually stimulating. Rather than just consuming and trying to learn things they make me think, reflect about myself, organisations, and [...]
Categories: MBA Studies Tags: , b821, b822, oubs
Hi there again. It was a bit quiet on my blog recently. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but most of all the revision for my B821 course (Financial Strategy) exam kept me busy. It was hard work, but brought together a lot of the course concepts, and I “suffered” a few severe aha moments. [...]
Categories: Books & Papers, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b821, exit champion, project appraisal, project management
As part of B821, I recently read a paper called ‘Why bad projects are so hard to kill’, (Isabelle Royer, [1]). It contains a summary of research into projects that had significant warning signs that something was wrong and were still continued for a long time, causing huge monetary losses. It resonated with some of [...]
Categories: MBA Studies, Thoughts Tags: , b821, mba, openoffice
Hi there, in case you wondered… I’m still alive! The last weeks were just really busy, as I had the first ugly workload peak in my personal little ‘Being a working mum and studying as well’ experiment ;) Besides getting up to speed with my customer’s team (which is working out great now), I had [...]
Categories: Blog, MBA Studies, Thoughts Tags: , b821, mba, oubs
On May 1, my next course at the Open University Business School (OUBS) started officially. It is called ‘B821 – Financial Strategy’ and is one of the ‘electives’ of stage 2 of the studies towards the MBA degree. I am about half way through my MBA program now, with two 6-months electives (one of which [...]
Categories: Business and Change, MBA Studies Tags: , business case, enpv, npv, prince2, project appraisal
Surprisingly, my blog post NPV explained in simple words has been the most viewed page on my blog, so far. Wow! I have just resumed my MBA studies at the OUBS (will write more about that soon), with the Financial Strategy course, which takes a lot of these appraisal techniques to the next level. So [...]
