| Volunteers wanted for
alumni Regional Groups
I am hoping to start or revive OUBS Alumni
Groups in London and the South Coast. If you are interested in
becoming a member of either of these steering groups to help plan
a programme of local events please contact Christine c.sargent@open.ac.uk
We meet informally every two to three months for a couple of hours
- nothing too onerous I promise! Members also required for current
groups so please get involved.
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Regional events
for further details or to make a booking please
go to www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
click on events
18 October Thames Valley, Bracknell,
Making your MBA Pay in Supply Chain Relationships
19 October Milton Keynes Alumni Group/CMI, Cranfield,
Leadership and Governance
20 October Yorkshire Alumni Group, Wakefield, Leadership -
a different perspective
21 October Kent CIPD, Tunbridge Wells, Practical Creativity
and Mind Mapping
4 November NoW Alumni Group, Manchester,
Presenting a Positive Image and Rainbow Networking
15 November Jersey, Channel Islands, Creative Problem
Solving, Jersey Museum
16 November Ireland Alumni Network, Fermoy, Giving
Competition a Chance in Healthcare
18 November SE Alumni Group, Redhill, Taking Control of
your Career
23 November OUBS Office, Frankfurt, open meeting
23 November CAMBA, Cambridge First Impressions and Avoiding
Negative Messages
2 December Vienna, Current Key Issues in
Strategic Thinking with OUBS Professor Susan Segal Horn
2 December SWAN, Bristol, Managing Stress
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Joint OUBS/Henley Saturday
workshops
Cost only £125 including lunch.
These are designed for the busy professional, leading academics
and practitioners will present practical updates on core business
disciplines to keep you at the forefront of business thinking.
Each seminar will cover a different specialist topic and help you
apply what you learn to your own work environment.
13 November Managing People
Effectively, Presented by Professor Chris Brewster, Henley
11 December The Latest
Thinking in Strategy, Professor Ian Turner, Henley
To book a place email oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
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Developing
Entrepreneurial Business Ideas - an update.
A year ago we proudly, if prematurely, announced
the arrival of the School's first entrepreneurship short (15 point,
3 month) course - the mainly online Developing Entrepreneurial
Business Ideas. We had not, however, allowed for the
interminably slow approvals process. With the final proofs of the
Workbook and Course Guide now out of the way, and the Website under
construction (where all the Activities and Case Studies are to be
found), we are now confident that the course will be ready for its
first students this coming February.
When we first announced our plans for a series of
entrepreneurship course, we were gratified by the strong response
from alumni. Indeed, a number of alumni were able to help with case
studies and critical reading. We also hope that the course will
offer good value as CPD and as support for alumni who want to start
their own businesses. Previous surveys and the response from Alumni
at the recent Barcelona event suggest that this could be around 10
per cent. We are also still in the market for case studies. If you
are interested in registering for this course then please go to http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C02B722
for details and registration. The UK fee is £630.
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Michael Porter - the world’s ‘leading business
intellectual’ to deliver competitive strategy conference
Thursday 4th November 2004 - Manchester MICC
Auditorium
Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence
University Professor based at Harvard Business School, will stage
his full-day Conference, ‘Competitive Strategy for
Profitable Growth’, to UK executives, on 4th November,
2004. Organised by Benchmark for Business, this is a rare &
valuable opportunity for directors and managers to learn from the
recognised authority in competitive strategy. Prof. Porter’s
Conference will be highly valuable for executives seeking to create
and deliver clearly defined strategies and a distinctive competitive
advantage in order to achieve success and profitability. Porter will
be on stage throughout the day.
Click
here to view conference details including agenda
OUBS alumni benefit from receiving a 40%
discount to £595 + VAT for each Executive Conference Place.
For Conference information and registrations visit
www.benchmarkporter.com/oubs
Alternatively contact organisers, Benchmark for Business, on free
phone 0800 169 2168 or email team@benchmarkporter.com
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| Need an update on
creative thinking? Get The Creative Gorilla!
Did you take B882 or B822 Creativity, Innovation
and Change as an elective in your MBA. Would like to refresh your
mind on creativity and innovation? Or perhaps you skipped that
course and would like to get some insights in to the subject. John
Brooker, an MBA alumnus, B822 residential tutor and recent tutor
on our Barcelona alumni weekend, writes a regular article on
creativity called "The Creative Gorilla". It's light
hearted and informative and is sent out by e mail every two weeks
or so. If you would like to sign up for the articles by e mail
then please send John an e mail with "subscribe" in the
subject line to: hi@yesand.co.uk.
Alternatively you can review some previous articles at http://www.yesand.biz/23017/index.html
and then decide to sign up.
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| "Critical
readers" for B853 Issues in International Financial Reporting
This course, a specialist part of the MSc in
International Finance and Management, is in production at the
moment. Part of the process is to ask potential students to read
the material and comment on the understandibility etc. of the
material. These reviewers are known as "critical
readers" and would be asked to read 10 course units and wrote
a report on each. The fee is £1250. Anyone interested should
contact June Patne, the course manager ( j.a.payne@open.ac.uk
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| Alumni
Offers
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on news about the OU/OUBS and its various products, the alumni
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please contact:
Christine Sargent (c.sargent@open.ac.uk)
Alumni Relations Manager
OUBS Alumni Office,
Michael Young Building,
Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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