Student Weekly Blog Report (5)

This week I will read through the note that given by my IT Entrepreneurship lecturer, madam Rafidah Adbul Razak. I will refresh my mind about the lecture that told by my madam.

I had pass out the two reports that had done after I went to workshop which conducted by University. Besides that, our group were started to do some preparation for our business activity. We wanted to open stall at Varsity Mall for do our business activity.

This week I had learned about debriefing for project business idea. In assessment, we need to do the business idea, and then we also need to continue do peer evaluation, report, and presentation. In the learning outcomes, there are included content knowledge, process skills, and habits of mind.

In content knowledge, we need creativity, idea, and opportunity analysis. From this, we need to know the methods of generating ideas and innovation, creative problem solving, and opportunity recognition. We can generate ideas and innovation from the exercise that given by lecture. We will try to come up some idea to solve the exercise, and recognize the question is difficult or not. Besides that, there are three major hurdles to overcome before any idea can come to fruition. The main challenge that needs to overcome is identify a problem. The second challenge is ideas generation, and the third challenge is ideas selection.

I also learned that good business idea should solve problems or provide a need, improve a better way to accomplish task, and cause people want to buy. If we have many ideas, we must choose which idea is the best. There are many examples of value propositions, such as Head and Shoulders:”You get rid of dandruff”, Olay:”You get younger-looking skin”, and Air Asia:”Everyone can fly”.

There are three process skills, such as communication, self-management, and group process. In communication, we need always give some opinion; speaking; and do publishing presenting. For self-management, we need to take attention on time and task management. For the example, we must take responsibility to manage the instruction that given by lecturer. While in group process, it is about the teamwork and collaboration. We must learn, give idea, and work together with each other to solve problem that occur. In addition, habit of minds is about reflective on learning. First, we must creative, imagining, and innovating. Secondly, we must know applying knowledge to new situations. Thirdly, we need to think and communicate clarity.

Project demonstrates is about real project or call “Real World”. It also realistic to create own motivation, need to use imagination in thinking, and it is under conditions of uncertainty. Passionate is most important that need in doing the project demonstrates.