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Alumni
enjoying Munich's Oktoberfest organised by Manfred Matheis
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New
Vice Chancellor for the Open University
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We're looking to the future as Martin Bean takes over as Vice-Chancellor of
The Open University from 1 October - find out more about Martin on our
Platform website. Martin joins the OU from Microsoft Corporation having more
than 20 years experience in training and education, holding senior executive
positions in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. He recently moved to the
UK from the US with his wife and three daughters.
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Business
School Annual Lecture
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We are looking for your recommendations for a key speaker to present at the
School's Annual Lecture (March 2010) in Central London. If you have a contact
for someone you think can talk inspirationally about a current hot topic then
please get in touch c.sargent@open.ac.uk
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Professional development half day workshop
Friday 6 November 2009 London
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The Creative Manager's Cookbook: Fresh thinking for the upturn - morning
workshop
Focused creativity is the stuff of all business growth and cost recovery
activity at work. Refresh your skills and knowledge in this area or sample
them for the 1st time as a taster for the Creativity, Innovation and Change
MBA programme. We will examine three areas.
- Innovation: How to create a climate where innovation is 'business as
usual'.
- Creativity: Experience a menu of practical creativity tools, which
transform your thinking and others you work with.
- In the creativity kitchen: Try the menu out on topics of the group's
choosing with like and differently minded network colleagues.
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Complexity
of international assignments - your help required
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A Canadian, a Russian, and an Englishman look to save an automotive plant.
Although this sounds like the beginning of a joke, this very current headline
highlights the international nature and complexity of business today. With
international organizations come international assignees to work in the
organization, usually in key positions. Most who arrive fit into the new
organization and environment with little effort; however, a significant number
have difficulties. Those who struggle often begin to explore an early
departure from their posting. This represents real threats and costs to the
organization. For the person, early departure can be very detrimental to one's
career. Industry acknowledges pre-mature attrition is a very real problem
across the globe, which is not well understood.
At the Open University Business School, I am involved in research focussed on
developing a better understanding of the expatriate's work experience. What
dimensions do expats identify as important and how do they interrelate? How do
you make sense of your new environment? Once better understood, better regimes
to enhance potential for success on international assignments can be
developed. If you are currently on international assignment or recently
returned, I would like to learn about your experiences, positive and negative.
If you would like to learn more about the project or share your experiences,
please contact me, Ross Davidson, at: r.a.g.davidson@open.ac.uk
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Regional
evening events:
Guests
welcome, Certificate of attendance available. For more
information or to make a booking, click on the events below or
ring Janet on +44(0)1908 659262
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The
Bottom Line www.open2.net
Evan Davis cuts through the confusion of modern life to find out what's
really important to consumers and businesses: the gimmicks, the people, the
products - and the relationships.
Saturday 24th Oct 21:30 on BBC News
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News
(Click here for the News section of
the Alumni website)
The Sunday Times, 11 October
In this full page article looking at the increase in self-learners "as
the world's best universities put free lectures online", the OU is at the
forefront of the feature with Open Learn and a case study about Daniel Conn
who, after discovering and using materials on Open Learn to see how he could
cope with studying, decided to enrol on an OU degree course, "I found the
information to be very engaging and reassuring," he said. The article
also looks at Open Learn download statistics and YouTube Edu.
http://ww3.precise.co.uk/links/pdfs/82650/51999869.pdf
www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
Financial Times (Money), 10 October
According to the latest quarterly survey by The Open University Business
School, there is little sign of the recession lifting for small and medium
sized businesses. Although half of the companies interviewed reported a drop
in sales, the first time in the 25-year history of the survey that this has
happened, the pace of decline is slowing.
http://ww3.precise.co.uk/links/pdfs/82650/51970334.pdf
Training Journal, 1 October
This is a profile of OUBS looking at its history, research and courses, with a
focus on the MBA. Professor James Fleck, Dean of OUBS, is quoted.
http://ww3.precise.co.uk/links/PDFs/82650/52100794.pdf
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