SDC – Individual Assignment

Worked hard this weekend on my SDC individual assignment. It was good to go through my notes (those that I was able to retreive) from the previous session and refresh my mind on the concepts and understandings that we discussed.

My project is coming along quite nicely, so far I have 111 learning points and I’ve arranged them into the grouped variables as I did for the Strat assignment. I must say, though, the Systems Thinking approach to problem solving is GREAT. I’m using it at work as well in some situations that hopefully will impact the business for the better.

I’ve attached some of the photies that I took of my thought process … see below

Backups &%#$%@^

Well I had a whole bunch of problems with my laptop this week so I thought it would be a good idea to reinstall Windows …. not. Of course the backups all run smoothly and you think that everything is included when you do run the backup …. not!

I realised after reinstalling everything that my ‘OneNote’ notes that I took in class for my SDC were all gone! The vids’ that I downloaded from my classmates and everything I had done up to that point had vanished. Oh well. At least I have my blog posts of the interesting points that we discussed in class.

I now have to try to remember all the ‘concepts’ for my journal that I had logged in an excel spreadsheet.

I guess its all good because now I know that in future I will double check that EVERYTHING is backed up and also I get to go through these notes to pick out my key learnings.

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I’ve just added my Strat assignment that I did during the March modular block of lectures and it was very interesting going back over the topics that I covered. It was quite challenging because at that stage one of the ‘key interventions’ that I proposed was to have a bit of ‘quiet reflection’ time each day to settle my thoughts and prioritise.

As with most things, this starts out well but thinking back I need to recommit to setting aside 20 minutes a day if I am to become a better strategist.

strat 002

Out of our Minds (Learning to be Creative) by Ken Robinson is the setwork book for this course and I’m about 1/2 way through. It’s making for very interesting reading and I’ll be posting some of my thoughts along the way.

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This blog site is dedicated to uploading my thoughts on the Strategy, Design & Creativity elective that I am completing as part of my MBA at UCT.