Oh Joy - MBA With Telecoms Management 16/8/10
Posted by Cloud Net on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 @ 08:42 AM
The world of the MBA (master of b…. all) continues to advance.
More and more people perceive the value of getting an MBA whilst more and more people in industry think they are a waste of time. I am in the latter camp.
If you want a business telephone system I wonder if the fact that someone has an MBA will influence your buying decision – I thought not. Your decision as always will be around price, reliability and functionality. This means that you will inevitably choose Cloud Net’s systems.
OK advert over. My old college, Imperial College London has now taken the MBA genre to new heights – you can now specialise in your MBA. Currently, they offer specialisations in Entrepreneurship, Customer Focused Strategy, Investments and Risks, Health Management, and Telecommunications. In our context an MBA in Telecoms management is the one of interest.
Imperial’s adverts helpfully invite us to type in the url http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/distance-learning-mba.
If you get that bit right you get to learn that:-
“The telecommunications industry is undergoing dramatic change; this change is fuelled by advances in technology, the rise of the world-wide web and Internet, regulatory reform, new forms of competition, and increasingly sophisticated customer needs. Industry convergence is bringing together information, entertainment, computing and telecommunications to form new business models around ICT.”
Nothing to disagree with there – more a statement of the blindingly obvious. The website then helpfully says:-
“This module aims to explore these issues by providing a holistic view of the industry. It examines market developments such as globalization. [Sorry, it should be globalisation – ed.], convergence and commodatisation [Sorry, it should be commoditisation– ed.] It teaches an understanding of the underlying technologies – both as they operate today and how they will develop in the future. It covers the impact of these technologies on products, services and customer care. Finally it pulls together all the key threads to look at the business models that apply in the new ICT industry; the financial implications for existing and new players; and all the future challenges.”
So there we have it. I couldn’t find out how long this riveting course took or how much it cost. I am delighted to have provided my ex-college with free publicity and encourage you to test your typing skills by typing in the url. Please take the course and that will distract you from competing with Cloud Net.
Written by David Hill, Chairman, Cloud Net