Farewell to Halmstad University International Exchange Students

Farewell lunch for our international exchange students from Halmstad University, Sweden. Over a period of four months the six students worked on several international market development projects with local Auckland businesses. Coordinated by Denisa Hebblethwaite, Unitec Department of Management & Marketing.

Enterprise Creativity, Design and Innovation course launches at Unitec February 2013

Have you an idea for a new product, service, process, or business?

Do you want to learn how to lead (or contribute towards) a team with a quest to create and launch a successful innovation?

If your answer is YES then Unitec Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Creative Industries and Business can assist in several ways:

• Offer your idea as a feasibility study to be undertaken by a postgraduate student in the Department of Management and Marketing, and/or
• Enroll in Unitec’s course APMG 8118 Enterprise Creativity, Design and Innovation and undertake a feasibility analysis supported by a network of staff, students, Dragons,  and Angels.
  

Previous APMG 8118 have students conducted feasibility studies or created prototypes for new ventures including:

• Furniture designed for ‘space-constrained’ circumstances, such as inner city flats. The student created a prototype and business plan for a multi-use, space saving item of furniture.
• A new venture start-up plan for a business based on retro-fitting battery-electric drive into ‘previously loved’ motor vehicles. The ongoing, steep reductions in the cost of large-charge batteries will make this a feasible business within the next 3-5 years.
• A market feasibility investigation for establishing a pickup-drop off bicycle scheme for the Unitec campus as an exemplar for extending through Auckland city.
• A development plan for transforming the ‘talk-and-chalk’ teaching processes of a specialist training academy towards using the new digital education platforms.

On-line flyer- Official!
Entrepreneurship [Masters/postgraduate elective]. (n.d.).Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.  http://www.unitec.ac.nz/creative-industries-business/management-marketing/short-courses/entrepreneurship.cfm

Timetable

Enterprise Creativity, Design & Innovation - APMG 8118 - Course and Timetable Details for 2013. (2013). Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Textbook

Stamm, B. von. (2008). Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity (2nd Edition.). John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0470510668

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Overview of the scope for a new course in Business Process Improvement

My first mindmap exploring the scope and content for a new course, BSNS 6350, I’ll begin teaching at Unitec Institute of Technology in two weeks time.

Course

Business Process Improvement - BSNS 6350 - Course and Timetable Details. (2012).Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland. Retrieved July 15, 2012, from http://www.unitec.ac.nz/results/course-timetable-details.cfm?PROG_ID=BBS&PLAN_ID=MANAGMT&SUBJECT=BSNS&CATALOG_NBR=6350&STRM=1124&CRSE_ID=010150&thiscrs=1

Related

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Mellalieu, Peter J. (1983b). In search of optimality: A systems technologist goes east. Overseas study report. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).

Mellalieu, Peter J., & Hall, K. R. (1981). Development of a large transshipment and production model for the dairy industry. Proceedings of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ), 51–61. Retrieved from http://unitec.academia.edu/PeterMellalieu/Papers/1571379/Development_of_a_large_transhipment_and_production_model_for_the_dairy_industry

Mellalieu, Peter J., & Houlistan, M. (1982). Towards decision support systems in New Zealand. Proceedings of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ), 99–106. Retrieved from http://unitec.academia.edu/PeterMellalieu/Papers/1571355/Towards_decision_support_systems_in_New_Zealand

Mellalieu, Peter John. (1982). A Decision Support System for Corporate Planning in the New Zealand Dairy Industry (Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics, statistics and operations research). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/568

Mellalieu, Peter John. (2010). Smoothing seasonal resource supply in land-based industries: Economic and technical impacts of “smoothing the flush” in New Zealand dairy milk production and processing. Presented at the Unitec Learning, Teaching, and Research Symposium, Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology.

Mellalieu, Peter John, & Hall, K. R. (1983). An Interactive Planning Model for the New Zealand Dairy Industry. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 34, 521–532. doi:10.1057/jors.1983.119

Morecroft, J. (2007). Strategic modelling and business dynamics: a feedback systems approach. John Wiley and Sons. Retrieved from http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=-1OiTH90U48C&lpg=PP1&dq=Strategic%20Modelling%20and%20Business%20Dynamics%3A%20A%20Feedback%20Systems%20Approach&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Strategic%20Modelling%20and%20Business%20Dynamics:%20A%20Feedback%20Systems%20Approach&f=false

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