Lecture and Seminar 4

Today's lecture was particularly interesting. It was about Managing Business and its environments'. We learnt a lot about the impact of digital communication, the digital commerce environment and business digital models.

During our seminar lesson we did a case study in which we were exploring the Vlookup functions in excel. Furthermore, we analysed our group business case and found out we should focus on 3 major problems. While exploring her website we noticed her marketing is weak, moreover her HR/legal components were not organised and she was struggling with the accounting.

Lecture and Seminar 3

Today's lecture was quite different than the ones before. Firstly, we had two guest speakers. The first guest speaker talked about academic regulations and explained how are we going to be treated if we misconduct the regulations. The second guest speaker was a woman named Emily she set up a company named "Bizzie Bodies" which teaches children aged 6-11 french through art. We had to pay attention carefully because her business is related to our coursework. We will have to analyse her business in order to help her improve certain things. For the last 45 minutes we had a regular lecture about infrastructure and services held by our module leader. During our seminar lesson we did the business analysis case and we did some work on excel as well.

Lecture and seminar 2

Today's lecture was about Business models and strategies in a digital world. I've learnt a lot of new things such as organisations, impacts on organisations, and business processes and routines. We have talked about 5 types of organizational structures and competitive forces. During our seminar lecture we did a task on 'Susie's Music Shop' in which we were required to prepare a cash flow budget for the six months period in excel. As I don't use excel often I found it very interesting and useful. I learnt how to use new functions on excel and we started a case study as well.

Lecture and Seminar 1

Today we had our first management and information systems lecture. The teacher introduced us to the module. We went through the module guide that was given to us at the beginning of the lecture. Firstly he explained the basic rules of attending his lectures. We went through the different assessment criteria. The teacher told us this module is 100% coursework based. The coursework is divided into the 2 parts. Firstly we will be formed into the groups of 5 and  make a presentation based on live study case that will be held during the lecture in week 3. Also we have to produce a blog post every week during our seminars. Secondly, we will have to write up a report about our experience of working as a group. Overall, I look forward studying this module.