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Lee Challoner-Miles wrote a new post, MBT Lunch – October 2018 3 years, 7 months ago
The most recent edition of the MBT lunch saw once again a good mixture of MBT students and alumni. Mach 2 was not only the name of the restaurant where the gathering took place but also accurately describes the […]
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, Anthony Joseph speaks at DjangoCon AU on web mapping technologies 3 years, 8 months ago
Anthony Joseph, one of the MBT alumni, was a speaker at this year’s DjangoCon AU. DjangoCon AU is sixth annual gathering of Django developers in Australia, and held as a one day mini-conference at the start of P […]
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Lee Challoner-Miles wrote a new post, Letter from the Chairman 3 years, 9 months ago
Dear MBT Community Members,
Last week the FEIT Dean, Ian Burnett and Head of SML School, Iwona Miliszewska both attended our board meeting to provide an update on the MBT Program.
The Dean has brought up […]
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, Modern, Secure and Scalable Architectures: Jason Umiker speaks at AWS 2018 Sydney and Mumbai Summits 3 years, 10 months ago
Jason Umiker, one of our MBT alumni, was a speaker at two of the recent AWS Summits – in Sydney and in Mumbai. In both he spoke to nearly 1000 attendees on what it takes to build modern, secure and scalable […]
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Frank Gutierrez became a registered member 3 years, 11 months ago
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, Ken’s Corner: What Does It Take to Achieve Self-Determination? 3 years, 11 months ago
What Does It Take to Achieve Self-Determination?
Recently a very wealthy member of our community approached me and requested me to give some thought to the issue of what it would take to give every single person […]-
Intelligent caring appears to have been given various synonyms in industry. An example is Radical Candor (https://www.radicalcandor.com/) and it appears to have many of the same ideas behind the concept. It is becoming part of the organisational identity in certain organisations but otherwise is a largely individual quality.
The aspect that intrigues me the most is how an internal locus of control is developed in childhood and early adulthood.
Please continue sharing your thoughts on this, Ken.
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Great article, refreshing memories on few MBT subjects like ‘Leadership and people management’.
Thanks ken as usual and Royston for the Radical Candor book reference.“How important is solving the problem to the person”
From my experience in team and personal leading, finding how important the problem is to the person and or thyself, surprisingly is not an easy task:)
Would be great if Ken, can shed some light on this as well!
Cheers
Tamer
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, Discussions with FEIT Dean about the future of the MBT 3 years, 11 months ago
Dear Community members.
I had a meeting with the Dean of FEIT yesterday to find out what’s happening and here are the major points discussed:
First point is that he hasn’t made up his mind yet but he […]
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, 33 Great – and Free – Sources for Success !!! 3 years, 11 months ago
Companies – and leaders – with obsolete tools tend to go out of business.
The impact of obsolete tools (equipment and knowledge) can have a high cost. As a business leader at any level, you need to not onl […]
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Ken Dovey wrote a new post, MBT EVENT: 10 May 2018 3 years, 11 months ago
MBT EVENT: 10 May 2018
The MBT Board sponsored event on Thursday 10th May 2018, held in the UTS Aerial Conference Centre, was very successful on several counts. Initiated by the MBT Board to recruit new […]
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Royston Lobo wrote a new post, MBT Board Letter to the FEIT Dean 3 years, 11 months ago
Date: 25th May 2018
Professor Ian Burnett
Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology SydneyDear Ian
Two weeks ago, the MBT Board successfully delivered an “MBT S […]
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What reassurance do current students have about the program going forward? Many of the cohort are in the MBT purely because of the elements described in the letter above. If this were to change, we could see an adverse impact to enrollments and viability of the program. I strongly urge UTS to do more to explain the thinking behind this plan and give current students a voice in this critical matter via the MBT Board.
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If the MBT moves to the Business Faculty it will be very unfortunate.
When I completed my MBT in 2004 (known as the MBITM back then) it was commonly known that the subjects we took from the Business Faculty were nowhere as engaging or as rewarding as the other MBT subjects within FEIT. The Business Faculty class interactions were very different to the rest of the MBT program.
It takes a huge leap of faith for a technical person to undertake a Masters of Business. Having the program run by an engineering or IT faculty with Industry-based lecturers helps overcome some of the doubts a technical person would have in committing to such a program.
Moving the MBT program to the Business Faculty will almost certainly deter most prospective students who have a technical background.
Is there anything current students and alumni can do to help influence the Dean to keep the program within FEIT?
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I graduated from the (then) MBTIM in 2004. It was the best course I ever enrolled in or completed. There we three main factors that made this course superb:
– The content – which was up to date, delivered by UTS and industry experts, and challenging.
– The students – the course has always been very selective, creating an environment where people want to learn – and want to learn from each other. The support and engagement from other students was vital . Competition between students was not a value within the cohort – unlike my experience of MBA subjects. The students all had work experience, so also had life experience.
– The teaching staff engaged by the MBTIM were stellar. They knew their content, they knew how to engage adult students with work experience and they knew how to get the best from us.My experience of the MBA subjects I had to take, was that they were commodified to the nth degree. The goal seemed to be to push students through in bulk with little consideration for those with a hunger to learn and excel. One MBA guest lecturer even spent some time trying to poach us to join the MBA at his institution. The experience left me quite uninspired.
Considering the MBT is consistently highly rated as THE best course on offer at UTS, it seems counter-intuitive to move it out of its current structure, where a board of Alumni and current students can continue to ensure excellence, to a faculty where so many of us have had unfortunate learning experiences.
As an Alumnus, I have a stake in ensuring the value of my qualification is maintained. I certainly doubt this will be the case if the course is swallowed up by the Faculty of business.
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Alex McClafferty wrote a new post, Entrepreneur vs intrapreneur 3 years, 12 months ago
“An intrapreneur is an entrepreneur who is located in a particular institution because that institution can satisfy the value proposition that drives her/him” – Ken Dovey, final lecture June 8, 2017.
While I w […]
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Robert Reynolds became a registered member 4 years ago
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Lee Challoner-Miles wrote a new post, Stuart Penny Presenting : Collaborative Design Approach Challenges for IT facilities in Construction 4 years ago
Collaborative Design Approach Challenges for IT facilities in Construction
Join Stuart Penny in Parramatta for the PMI Sydney Chapter May event!
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