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Integrating End-of-Seminar Project
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This final seminar week you will prepare an End-of-Seminar Project.
The EOSP provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate integration of your knowledge of financial and operational management.
You will each develop a plan that integrates effective financial and operational decision making to successfully meet a managerial challenge and improve the performance of your enterprise.
The faculty hopes that the application to your own enterprise will be both motivating and ideally, of practical value to you at work. Previous students in other MBA courses have reported that their EOSPs have been approved for actual implementation at work.
Instructions
Individual Assignment (End-of-Seminar Project)
Each student is to
• Identify an important managerial challenge facing his or her work or other organization.
• Develop a plan that integrates effective financial and operational decision making to successfully meet this challenge and improve organizational performance, in a succinct report that includes an executive summary.
More Information:
What is a succinct report? Could it be 8 pages or more? One reads that IBM decision papers are limited to that length, and we all recall the single-sheet Ringo Sho approach to important decisions at Toyota.
1. “Take Me (I’m Yours) will turn the Quai de Conti’s 18th-century rooms into a venue for free and creative exchange, designed to unsettle the conventional relationship between a work of art and its viewer. Visitors are invited, even encouraged, to touch, use and take away the invited artists’ projects and ideas[…] This exhibition, designed to create interaction between visitors and artists, is characterised by its open form which evolves in time. When it ends, the pieces will have disappeared, distributed in their entirety. Going beyond conventional economic channels, Take Me (I’m Yours) will present a model based on exchange and sharing, thus raising questions about the exchange value of art”.[https://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/en/press/releases/take-me-i-m-yours].
Critically examine the role of generosity, openness and sharing in the work of two artists.
2. If an artwork is characterised as sublime, what kind of ideas and experiences are evoked by this description? Using 2 or 3 examples, evaluate what might be meant by references to the sublime in contemporary visual art.
3. If Deleuze and Guattari’s six principles of the rhizome suggest new ways to forge connections between heterogeneous elements, how can these possibilities play out in art making? Using one or more examples of your choice, discuss artworks that set up sprawling fields of connections and discuss how they can be considered as rhizomatic.
4. “Art projects the space and time of fantasy, and identifies with childhood’s ideal freedom. Regaining the child’s spontaneous, imaginative play has never been as central to artists’ enterprise as it is today – not even in the heyday of surrealism’s quest for a return to unfettered imagination”. [Marina Warner ‘Game On’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/mar/19/art].
With reference to two or three examples examine the way in which contemporary art can be understood to draw on the image and experience of childhood play.
5. With reference to specific examples, critically reflect on art-making in postcolonial conditions. To what extent are postcolonial, anti-colonial or decolonial theories and practices pertinent to, or re-configured, in the present day?
6. What happens when artists give up on established categories of refinement, value and expertise and aspire to poverty instead? On the basis of examples of your choice, examine and discuss which features of the (art) work become prominent in this re-orientation, and what is enabled through this change in perspective.