David Wood's visit to Imperial Business school

Today we had a pleasure of having David Wood , EVP of Research at Symbian, Ltd ( my previous employer) in our Business school. David is now responsible for understanding and guiding Symbian's response to disruptive trends in technology, business, and society. I have met David for couple of times in Symbian from my personal opinion he is very humble, has always quest for innovation(which is core to symbian's value) and very well respected person in Symbian.

The talk we had was on "Building the killer mobile experience of 2013" detailing on Innovation, Platforms, Agility and Open source.


It was really a good talk and personally it inspired me in some front for my MBA thesis !! Thesis topic isnt decided yet by me but i think I am moving towards it :)

bye for now need to head for some sleep

Cheerio

Diwali celebration : MBA

We bunch of Indians in MBA class arranged for few sweets to all our classmates. The same evening we went to diwali party. It was fun = good food, good dance and good way to know your batch mate. My perception is you get your friends in class in a bit different angle at parties. the point i am leading to is parties are good for networking ;).

We went to a restaurant called as urban turban.. the food and ambiance was good !

First week at MBA

My First week was a fun week where we had good induction. We are class of 65 and a very diverse one !! few interesting facts

> Class has people from India 30% ( 20 people), Greece, south america, USA, Germany , china, South Korea, Singapore etc
> Very diverse work profiles...We have Surgeon, Lawyer, PHD's, BBC editor, as usual tons of Indian IT folks :)
> Age ranges from 23 to 45 !

First day we had team collaboration event where team was asked "to make rocket and make it fly" it was fun and indeed our rocket did fly very high in air..few snaps are below



We had a around 3 parties in first week seems fun isnt it ;) however I have to admit that next one year looks to be very hectic and packed up.
We were introduced to courses for next one year. Imperial focuses a lot on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This term we have 3 courses

> Accounting
> Economics : Macro and Micro
> People and organization

Followed by

> Strategy
> Marketing
> Finance Management

Then Project on IED( innovation design and entreprenuership) , 3 electives and Final project.

My Objective from MBA is being more focussed on Strategy and get into Strategy Consulting.

My next 2 months blog will be focussed on learnings on Accounting, Economics, People and organisation.

Ohh BTW i have joined Table tennis, Tennis and cricket club in Imperial college ..so I plan to reduce 10 kgs in next one year. Hope I achieve that :)
Till then off to studying ...bubye