The Second Week

I now have another practical use for this blog. This would serve me as a tool to summarise my term experience in Cranfield. We need to submit a report on this and the report is part of our exam marks in OBPPD, so I would add a personal touch to this blog from now on.

The second week, it was not very different from the first week from the learning or the lectures perspective. We had a briefing on the SMS (Strategic Marketing Success), which is supposed to be a demonstration of any marketing success in the world. We as a team will have to find one such story, and present it, I am looking forward to this challenge. Our team selected BMW MINI as the product of choice, and I am happy with that, as it provides enough room to apply many of the theories that we learnt. I was a bit unhappy with one of my team member jumping the gun with a structure, whereas I would have preferred everyone working on their own structures and then we choosing the best of all.

Personally I did an accounting problem after a long long time and felt good, imagine I forgot to bring up the inventory into the income statement, but I was happy that none of the other points went wrong, and I had a tallied balance sheet except for the above error. I think I will have to be a bit more methodical to avoid last minute problems.

In economics I found that the second part is something entirely new for me. I thought the entire paper is a renamed managerial economics course, however I now find it to be much more practical and usable. Many of my co-students feel the other way, but I think the value of this learning would be realised only when the start using it.

We did an MBTI survey of all of our members and I came out to be a ENTJ, that would mean an Extrovert, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging personality. I dont know much about this survey, may be this could come in handy later on.

Personal life, my wife got an interview call for a Nursery Assistant position next week, and we are happy about it. At the least, she will atleast get some experience in taking an interview in this part of the world.