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This newsletter's purpose is to keep you updated on
news about the OU/OUBS and its various products, the alumni association, offers and affinity
deals, alumni events and just about anything else that you request.
Offers have been selected
as appropriate for our readership. The companies and people offering them
are not necessarily connected to or endorsed by the OUBS.
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to receive news from you (with web links) that I can circulate to
the rest of the association. You will see that many of the items
link you back to the alumni web site at www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
where you will also find the news site, events listings as well as
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UPDATING
RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND - BARCELONA - Reserve your place now!
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Facing the Challenges - Developing a
leading edge skill-set for a changing and challenging world.
Getting your MBA isn't the end at all -
take the next step, invest in yourself and join alumni colleagues,
international speakers, academics and tutors for a weekend of updating
and personal and professional development in this visually stunning
must-see city.
Build your own programme by selecting
sessions from the key management fields of leadership, culture change,
finance, creativity, innovation, knowledge management and much more.
Benefit yourself and your organaisation, refresh and update.
Key speakers include Professor Dave
Snowden of IBM Global Services on Culture Change; Professor Beverly
Alimo-Metcalfe, Professor of Leadership Studies and internationally
respected expert in the field of leadership; Professor Angus Laing,
OUBS Beneficial Bank Chair of Marketing and Peter Walton, OUBS
Professor of Accounting supported by specialist tutors. The programme
also includes interactive workshops, benchmarking, reflective feedback
sessions and invaluable networking opportunities with a group of
excellent contacts and colleagues.
Why not add a day or two on for
sightseeing? A partner's rate is also available. The venue at Hotel
Sants ( www.bchoteles.com
) is ideal for access to the airport (15 minutes direct by train)and 4
minutes to the centre of the city. Low-cost flights direct to
Barcelona from most European destinations.
Further details www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
click on events, or from Christine Sargent c.sargent@open.ac.uk
+44 (0)1908 655806 to make a booking email oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
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Alumni Dinner and OUBS Awards at the House of Commons
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160 alumni, guests, award winners and
staff enjoyed a wonderful evening at the House of Commons.
Congratulations to our alumnus of the Year
Thomas Blaser and MBA Student of the
Year Paul Mylrea. Picture shows award winners and sponsors.
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Launch of new OUBS journal - we need your advice!
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The European Business Review
The Open University Business School is
proposing to launch from January 2005, a new journal entitled The
European Business Review, modelled on the Harvard Business Review. Its
style will be accessible to non-academic readers, and as such it will
aim to present new ideas, models, theories and business practices in
an entertaining readable way without losing sight of their essential
rigorous nature. It will be sold on the news stand at £12.50 per copy
(four a year) but will be available to OUBS Alumni at a special
discounted rate of £8.50 a copy. A 'taster' copy will be available to
all alumni at cost in October.
We would appreciate a response to this
proposal to gauge the likely level of interest in such a journal
amongst Alumni, and would ask you to address yourself particularly to
two questions
1. Have we got the targeted content
about right and if not how could it be improved in concept?
2. Is the pricing about right for a
quarterly journal of this nature, assuming we keep the contents
stimulating.
Your replies please to oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
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Use of Business Library database?
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Again we would like to hear from you, this
time regarding continuing use of OU Library facilities once you cease
to be a student.
Would you be interested in obtaining
access to a range of academic journals through the OU library, upon
payment of an annual membership fee? For example the database BSP
offers the full text of over 2000 scholarly and business
journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting and
international business. Full text back to 1990 in many cases with
selected titles back to 1965 and even earlier. How much would you be
prepared to pay per annum for such a facility?
Your responses please to oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
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New Masters for OUBS
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New programme on offer from November 2004
include a totally new course 'The HR professional' (first presentation
May 06) looking at current issues facing the profession, and aiming to
develop the consultancy skills needed as an internal advisor and
change agent, or for running a consultancy business. If you are
responsible for graduates working in HR this programme may be of
interest as a challenging route to professional development. If you
work in HR you may also be interested in adding an MSc to your own
MBA: this may require only 60 points of further study. Or you may like
to enrol for the new course, when it is available, as CPD.
Please email specialist
queries to OUBS-MHRM@open.ac.uk
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Fast Track to MCMI and chartered status
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As an MBA graduate, you have a guaranteed
Fast Track route to full professional membership (MCMI) of the
Chartered Management Institute. You can join now, saving £45 on the
assessment fee and a further £10 on your first year's subscription!
What's more, you may even be able to upgrade to Fellow grade (FCMI).
This Fast Track access means that all
OUBS MBA alumni can also apply for the Institute's unique, online
award Chartered
Manager (CMgr) - the hallmark of the professional manager.
Chartered Manager recognises those managers who are actively improving
their knowledge and skills at work and can demonstrate the positive
impact of their contribution to their organisations. Only full members
(MCMI and FCMI) can become CMgrs.
There are numerous benefits
- professional, financial and personal - as an Institute member. You
will gain unlimited access to our comprehensive Management Information
Centre to use our full
text databases and many other information services, 24/7. You
can use our smart
CPD scheme, including a huge range of online benchmarking
tools. There are career
services including a virtual careers centre, extensive networking
opportunities, a free legal helpline, and much more.
To take up your MCMI online go to www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
- click on Services to download the application form.
If you have any questions, including
upgrading to FCMI, we would be happy to answer them at membership@managers.org.uk
or telephone 01536 207307.
Use your MCMI or FCMI to become a Chartered
Manager? Contact us at chartered.manager@managers.org.uk
or call 01536 207400. Ask for our free CD-RoM on CPD and Chartered
Manager.
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Another
opportunity to hear Tom Peters - this time in London
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Tom Peters is the most influential
business thinker of our age. Irrepressible and charismatic, he
virtually invented the role of the modern guru single handed. Peters
is passionate, provocative, disruptive, even destructive, but always
liberating. His relentless demands for us to move on from the status
quo led the Evening Standard to say recently, “[Peters] is to
business what [Dr] Robert Atkins is to the obese.” The Financial
Times describes him as “a scourge of the rationalist tradition…”
The OUBS Alumni Association is
supporting this event and has negotiated a special rate for MBA alumni
with the organiser, Benchmark Management, go to www.benchmarkpeters.com/oubs
to make a booking.
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Business
Leader Courses
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28 September to 1 October and 16 November
to 19 November. Run by Peter Kennedy, special 50% discount rate for
OUBS, there are a limited number of places. For further information go
to www.leadershipbc.co.uk
To book a place telephone Peter Kennedy on 01743 352832 or email pkennedy@leadershipbc.co.uk
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Alumni
Offers
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OUBS Courses. Discount vouchers are available to graduates who wish to take
a further
course (one per annum). Contact us for
your personalised voucher. Contact: oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
Get
your own website for £99. Ideal for
small businesses and clubs. Details and
enquiry/sign up form: www.getsetup.net/oubs
or phone 08700 111 447
Broadband for £24.99 per month available to OUBS Alumni and Staff,
modem and connection supplied at no charge until end April. See: www.getsetup.net/isp
or phone 08700 111 447
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and enter in the code 'BRINGMEDVDS'.
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For all comments and contributions
please contact:
Christine Sargent (c.sargent@open.ac.uk)
Alumni Relations Manager
OUBS Alumni Office,
Michael Young Building,
Walton Hall,
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