Well we've just completed week 3 of semester 2!
Before we started the semester the CEMS students participated in a Block Seminar on "Managing Innovation" - this was a great experience where we were trying to reconceptualise the notion of a bank for the future by envisioning what that future may hold! The aim of the week was to try and capture our creativity through a structured framework and then channel these ideas into new innovative applications!for the retail banking industry Throughout the week we went to a variety of off-campus locations to complement this creative process including the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Sydney Observatory. Was also a great chance to meet the incoming CEMS students here on exchange and also the 2nd cohort of Sydney University Master of Management students for 2009!
The week was hectic and fun!
This semester is shaping up to be a busy one once again! Some of us are doing an "Innovation Challenge" with Deloitte for the duration of the semester where we brainstorm ideas and eventually choose one to explore further all the way through to a business plan and pitch. We've currently gone through the ideation and value proposition stage and are reevaluating how we thing we could really gain value from this venture - it's been a great learning experience thus far (we've really got to narrow our scope and present a concrete, feasible proposition - no mean feat when there's a group of creative minds at work!). We've also been teamed up with a mentor and coach from Deloitte and we just had the second formal event last night. Great to see how they operate from the inside!
So ...busy, busy, busy!! Tomorrow we've been invited to attend a Sydney Uni Rugby match (after our work with the Sydney Uni Rugby Club last semester!). So that shall be fun!
More news soon
Lorenn