Evidently I did all of the reading that needed to be done last week. This was probably the first slow week I’ve had in any MBA class since I have been doing the program. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the break, especially doubling up on classes, but it feels like I am not getting …

Building on Foundations – Project Charter We are really getting into deeper project management terminology this week. I learned what the true meaning of what a Critical Path is on a project. We worked more on our Dream Projects. This class was a lot of reading but I was able to stay on top of …

Foundations of Project Management Framework We looked at a lot of terminology for both predictive, agile, and hybrid project management practices. There is a lot of reading and reflection on it. An interesting assignment is a project that we are to create ourselves and create the documentation around called a “Dream Project”. I dusted off …

My current MBA program allows me to finish off my degree by focusing on what are called “stacks.” These are like majors for an undergrad, however they do not print on your degree certificate. These stacks include the traditional accounting, finance, and marketing focuses but also include alternatives like business analytics, healthcare information, and supply …

I am also going to group this course into one post instead of a post breaking down each individual week. As a capstone course, the main focus here was to summarize the previous core MBA classes I took. Compared to the previous MBA Comprehensive review, this one had a little more value to it. The …

I will group the entire course into one post. I will be completely honest, I found this course to be the largest waste of time and tuition dollars. The entire course was comprised of exams based on the previous eight classes that I took. On many of these exams, there were questions I was sure …

Week 5 – Quality Management and Lean Systems Our final week and I found myself taking off Friday just to get everything submitted on time. We talk about another favorite of mine and that is quality. I like the idea of quality, of incrementally improving step by step towards the unattainable. There is hope in …

Week 4 – Operations Strategy We delved into strategy by reading “What is Strategy” by Kryscynski and “Don’t Just Create Value – Capture It” by Ryall. We also read Iansiti’s “Operations Strategy”. This was a content heavy week with topics I would expect in an MBA class. We talked about the Value Capture Model (VCM) …

Week 3 – Risk Management and Resilience We read two papers, one titled “Building Resilient Supply Chains Won’t Be Easy” by Levi and one titled “From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal with Disruptions” by Fiksel. We learned about stress testing to identify points of weakness and risk. We also went into supply chain vulnerabilities …

Week 2 – Sustainability I am not a fan of what is considered “sustainability” unless it relates to building resiliency to market forces. I believe much of the environmental impacts people fret over with NIMBYism is just shipped overseas with more relaxed measures in place and to let those places suffer. It makes sense to …