Assalmualaikum, oh no!!. i'm really sorry. i made a wrong, before this i post at the wrong place(site). Erm..I think I'm too late to share at this blog what i have learn for strategic management... So i like to start back from my first lecturer.

First lecture (10/09/13)

Today is the first day I start the class for this semester. The class started at 8am. Wow… it’s in early morning, I’m very excited. This class is for subject Strategic Management. Miss Ummi Salwa bt Ahmad Bustamam as our lecturer is very active. She doesn’t like to just stay in front of us and we just to hear her. So, she likes to go around in the class and ask various questions. As usual for the first lecture, a lecturer will brief to the entire student about course outline, assessment, final exam, book that will use and an introduction about the subject. Miss Ummi informs that our class tutor would be conducted by Puan Siti Nurul Huda Nordin.

Miss Ummi explain that this subject will be 60% for Continuous Assessment and the final exam is 40%. Continuous Assessment would consist of Teamwork assignment, Individual assignment, Participation (tutorial + case study), online forum, online quiz, Peer-review and Presentation. Miss Ummi encourages us to read more article and news about business from any source like the star, news strait time and others. She also wants us to read about politics, socials and etc. 

Before she ended the class for today, she ask us to form ten groups and a group consist of 15 people. And then she orders us to build tower from newspaper and the newspaper is provide by her. What we have to do is to build the tall tower based on our own material and creativity. We were free to use any kind of material such as stapler, glue, tape and so on. All of us were given 10 minutes to finish the tower and the evaluation was to find both the highest and the strongest tower. The tower that our group build is the last second tower that fall because our tower not strong enough. After that, she ask us what the conclusion what we have for that activities. For my own view, we had to have plan strategy before to do something. This will give us the efficient plans.

Second lecture (17/09/13)

This week, Miss Ummi covers for two topics which is the nature of strategic management and the business vision and mission for the lecturer.

First, the nature of strategic management is about the introduction of strategic management. Strategic management can be describing as the art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional. The example of cross-functional is human resource department, financial department, EPS and others. The different between strategic management and planning is planning only about strategy formulation not include implementing and evaluating cross-functional.

Secondly, the business vision and mission. A vision statement should answer the fundamental question, ‘’what do we want to become?’’. Vision is also can be said as our own objective that we want to achieve. Meanwhile, mission is synonymous with the question ‘’what is our business?’’ and it is as the tools that assist get the vision. There are many names for mission such as a statement of philosophy and others.

Anyway, in tutorial class, we discuss more detail about our vision and mission to USIM. My vision come o USIM is to finish my study and separate what I learn to society. So, for my mission to achieve that vision is I should gain as much as possible a knowledge and collect more experiences. For get a lot of knowledge and experience, I have to attend a various programs that can help to increase my knowledge for something new. OH, so interesting! (^_^)