This was taken just over a week ago, when the River Ouse has reached its highest point for about four years.
This, on the other hand, was taken this morning. By my reckoning, that’s a difference of about 15 feet…
Archive for 11 February 2004
I’m still getting googled for ’strategic management exam’, which makes me wonder how many soon-to-be-MBAs are hitting these pages in the hope of finding something useful.
I’m not sure whether this lot will count as useful, but here goes. It’s based on the semester two Strategic Management core module run by this gentleman as part of the full-time MBA at Leeds Uni Business School. His module is based around two core texts – de Wit & Mayer’s Strategy – Process, Content, Context and Hill & Jones’ Strategic Management: An integrated approach, so that’s what these documents take as their starting point.
The Strategy Planning Model attempts to pull together a complete overview of the strategic planning process, while the other Strategy model tries to pull together all the various models and views and show how they inter-relate. Points being the things that won prizes, the idea was to come up with a set of models that would a) be possible to remember in the stress of the exam room and b) act as a way of building up an essay answer that could tie together various models in a comparative way and so gain as much credit as possible. They’re not designed as last-minute cramming aids – if there’s one thing I learned on the MBA it’s that it’s a course where last-minute cramming doesn’t work.
For what it’s worth, this approach seemed to work – those of us who worked together on these models got high marks (I haven’t got my grading sheet to hand, but from memory I think I picked up a low-80s mark, which anecdotally at least was pretty good for the cohort) How much sense they’ll make out of context, I’m not sure, but if in doubt email me, and I’ll try to explain.
There’s also a lot more where this came on that covers other modules – Operations Management in particular, so if the name Nigel Slack rings any bells, ping me an email and the OM models can be yours.
Just spent a happy half-hour (actually, make that two hours) updating yet more critical security patches on two Windows 2000 servers that I have the (dubious) pleasure of looking after. 11MB of downloads and two reboots each. This software has more bugs than the average anthill…
Prize tit of the week award goes to Rob Enderle and his Ferrari-branded Acer laptop:
One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission… Even when I’m in a meeting, I don’t turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained.
That, Rob, is because they’re desperately trying to stifle their laughter at what a micro-penised plonker you are…
(via Slashdot, and if you think I was being harsh about him, you should read what they say…)
