Welcome to back FR Business Blog! I haven't posted lately and am trying to get back into the swing. I will share interesting information that I find about business and technology as well as Business Technology Department news.
Upcoming Events
March 26th the Entrepreneurship class will be going to the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University with Ms Giron's Communications class. Both classes have been reading the Dan Pink book, A Whole New Mind. We will be finishing the book and working on some collaborative projects between the two classes.
The Entertainment Techonology Center offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree, jointly conferred by Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. The high concept behind both the Center and the Masters program is to have technologists and fine artists work together on projects that produce artifacts that are intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience/guest/player/participant. Because the larger challenge we face in authoring in new media is bringing together different disciplines, our degree program is driven by trying to do this most effectively. This program ties in very nicely with A Whole New Mind.
Seth Godin's Blog
Here is the latest post from Seth Godin's blog. Godin is a business/marketing expert with several top selling books and one of the most popular business blogs in the world.
Losing Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie apparently said, "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory."
Is there a typical large corporation working today that still believes this?
Most organizations now have it backwards. The factory, the infrastructure, the systems, the patents, the process, the manual... that's king. In fact, shareholders demand it.
It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to embracing irreplaceable people, the linchpins, the ones that make a difference. Anything else can be replicated cheaper by someone else.
2010-2011 Scheduling
Keep the Business Technology classes in mind when you are scheduling this week. Here are a list of our courses:
Honors Accounting I and 2
Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Senior Internship
International Business
Business Law
Web Page Design
Microsoft Office 2007
Personal Finance
See the Franklin Website for the course descriptions.
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