One of my first real experiences of the module has been the Hackathon. The event has more meaning to it in retrospect, now that we have been on the module for a few weeks. Meeting Surrey council workers and listening to their presentations regarding the issues was interesting and actually gave me some inside views […]
Business Strategy
This was an area I did not have much knowledge on. The idea of a simulation exercise was very interesting to begin with and I was really looking forward to discovering it. After we picked our team members, we were given our private access codes which we use to logon to the simulation of our […]
Entrepreneurial Finance
I must say I had mixed feelings about this topic. My past traumas from the old Business Administration days, mixed with my phobia of maths, were returning in order to make this one of my most dreaded topics. However, I was very surprised to find out how Simon had managed to turn this one into […]
New Venture Development
This was an interesting session since we had to model other businesses and then talk about how we could improve them. When we first talked about business models the previous weeks, I had immediately thought about analysing Netflix’s model as I knew it was very innovative and relied heavily on data analytics, which is another […]
Introduction + Business Models
Here I am, on my first day at the Managing a Creative Business module. The course has finally kicked off and my first seminar has been successfully completed. The focus of the day was business modelling and some examples of various models such as Netflix, which we did as a group. I then went on […]
Who am I?
I am a student at Kingston University who is hoping to obtain an MA on “Managing in the Creative Economy”. This will be my blog for the course where I will be sharing all my findings and possibly all my confusions throughout the one year long course. Feel free to comment on anything you find […]
