What is doing your Exec MBA really like?

This was a question that somebody posed as we stood next to a BBQ on a very pleasant summers evening.
As somebody working my way along the Exec MBA journey, my experience has been that one of the things that you  have to realise is that your social life is going to take a battering, so a BBQ occasion was one of those to treasure.

You need to ensure that your family is on board.  It does undoubtedly stress everything that previously was relaxed, structured and/or planned out.  But you will meet great people, and learn to work together in a team, in a way that I certainly had never experienced before.

I did find this article on WSJ.com which does give a view of what it is like.

Innovation as a process

There is not always going to be something really sexy or enlightening that is suddenly going to appear here as a new post.  There is another reason why this blog has come into existence ... as part of my EMBA studies we are encouraged to "reflect" and capture reflections as part of the learning process.  In my head, part of the reflection process is to capture some of those ideas, concepts, articles and any random thinking and put them somewhere ... and this blog serves as a great vehicle for that purpose.

We have just completed another set of workshop sessions on Strategic Marketing, which I will cover in another post at some point in the future.  Part of the time was dedicated to an introduction to Strategic Innovation.  But even when one is just skimming the surface (and we were skimming the surface), there were a couple of key points that I took away which are worth noting: