Final semester begins.....

Final semester commenced on 14th August 2006. 4 modules taken in this semester. Supply Chain Management, Product and Brand Management , Competitive Marketing Strategies & Business Forecasting.So far all look ok. Competitive marketing strategies is the most interesting of all. Huum looks like I have forgotten holiday as saturday & sunday.....with all meetings and professors internship work...all days seem the same. But one thing good in this semester is that all classes in evening, except product management on saturday mornings. Matching owl timings :) .Phew....one year passed by so quickly....

Anagrams of last seven elective modules :
Services Marketing --Avengers sick merit
Technopreneurship--Hot, nicer penpusher
Managing Change--Hag, menacing nag
Supply Chain Management-- Up maniac's elegant nymph
Product & Brand Management-- Goddamn! Unpenetrant , mad crab
Business Forecasting--Boastings if censures
Competitive Marketing Strategies--VIP to emetic, tastier, smarting geek

Artistic display by school students....

On way back from Zoo...noticed these 2 students of International School putting on an artistic stance just outside the Woodlands MRT station.

Singapore Zoo--20th Aug

Zebra

White Tiger

Bat

Giraffe
White Rhino

King Cobra

Orangutan

.... pic at Zoo entrance

Website

Bird Park Visit

Flamingos

Royal Ramble Crowned Pigeon

Penguins

With Manish , Meena and parrots


Website & Map of Bird Park.

PLASMA CORP.

Technoprenuership module was the most challenging module in the MBA course so far. So finally I have some knowledge of what all goes into making a business plan. The team [from right:Sharon(China) , Manish, Sophie(France), myself, Abhi with Guekhar(Singapore) at extreme left and Ann(USA) at the back]. The biggest team I have worked in MBA so far and the experience was just amazing. Great Team. I seriously felt the impact of collective power when all in the team are alligned to a common goal. The title of the blog refers to the company this team formed to launch an innovative product for the treatment of diabetes.I also reflected back on the effectiveness of team versus individual.
Also this module was unique as first time Indians in the class were minority, with majority stake taken up by norway people, who had come on exchange program for this module.


-spot the unique feature in this pic, easy :)

Roomie Jaewoo's parting dinner at Riverwalk Tandoor on 8th July

Roomie Jaewoo left for Bangkok on 11th July. He will be going on exchange to Copenhagen(Denmark) in August.

The two new roomies are BALU and PRAJIT.
from Left: Balu, Pramod and Prajit at Clarke Quay along riverside.

Urgency....

Happen to cover creating a sense of urgency part in the Managing Change module.....which illustrates a sense of creating a fear/preparing for the unexpected among the people to get them working hard/different when everthing is going right with a foresight of preparing the people for the change........gets me back to the concept of driving out a +ve from -ve force is much easier compared to +ve to +ve....most of time I also happen to work on -ve to +ve principle......postponing things until it reaches a level of urgency.......and when u see it working out most of the time its hard to change the habit....but getting a +ve change when u are in +ve state is difficult to achieve...have been thinking of how to achieve the same for sometime now.