*** Day VI: at Harvard business school ***
The day started early. The idea was to run about 5 hours of classes and finish up by late lunch. In the evening, we had reception by Harvard faculty. The Harvard Faculty club, is a renowned historical piece of club, prestigious and very elegant.
All week long, we have been pushed by HBS to "learn" more and more. Weather outside, was also grdually improving - snow melting, bright sunshine comoing up.
Most of us, were looking forward to weekend. Two of our group members have plans for members of family to come in (they live close by.). But, all of us (students) suspect, there is a pact HBS and weather Gods. Since early saturday morning, it has started to snow again. Infact, on sunday morning winds picked up - you could see the snow flakes going from right to left and not falling straight down.
I was introduced to mind-maps last year, but did not think, much of it. Early this week, mind-map was again put on table as one of effective tools. Too old to try new things, I was so shying away from getting to use the same. But, then finally I decided to get into it.
There are very fancy notes I have taken with this tool - including the one on wrap up of the week, what other groups thought/learnt about the week. I am so proud of myself !!
Key learnings
1.Three steps to Demystifying strategy. Keep customer in front of you and ask.
2. Demystifying execution (six points) - Your product
Just met the lovely family of one of our group members. Was very impressed with them; pleasant eloquent and i thought, extremely warm folks.
Another 5 hrs to go and the weekend ends..... back to the table at 1930hrs....
The day started early. The idea was to run about 5 hours of classes and finish up by late lunch. In the evening, we had reception by Harvard faculty. The Harvard Faculty club, is a renowned historical piece of club, prestigious and very elegant.
All week long, we have been pushed by HBS to "learn" more and more. Weather outside, was also grdually improving - snow melting, bright sunshine comoing up.
Most of us, were looking forward to weekend. Two of our group members have plans for members of family to come in (they live close by.). But, all of us (students) suspect, there is a pact HBS and weather Gods. Since early saturday morning, it has started to snow again. Infact, on sunday morning winds picked up - you could see the snow flakes going from right to left and not falling straight down.
I was introduced to mind-maps last year, but did not think, much of it. Early this week, mind-map was again put on table as one of effective tools. Too old to try new things, I was so shying away from getting to use the same. But, then finally I decided to get into it.
There are very fancy notes I have taken with this tool - including the one on wrap up of the week, what other groups thought/learnt about the week. I am so proud of myself !!
Key learnings
1.Three steps to Demystifying strategy. Keep customer in front of you and ask.
- Differentiate, How ?
- Value proposition, how much?
- Target Market - Who ?
2. Demystifying execution (six points) - Your product
- R&D Build
- Generate Demand
- Make it available
- Establish WTP (willingness to pay)
- Deliver
- Manage lifecycle
Just met the lovely family of one of our group members. Was very impressed with them; pleasant eloquent and i thought, extremely warm folks.
Another 5 hrs to go and the weekend ends..... back to the table at 1930hrs....
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