My IBIS Passport

Welcome to my IBIS Passport

I am a Business Innovation student at IBIS. This is a sneak peak into my learning advantures. This website also reflects on my experience, subjects and assignments.

What innovation means to me is reframing challenges as opportunities. Within class projects, I am drawn to those moments when a team collectively ‘sighs,’ because the number of apparent roadblocks has increased to a point of frustration. It’s easy for teams to stop trying in these moments, and change focus by moving to another problem with an easier solution. But really, this is the worst time to stop trying, because you have done all the work that prepares you for an innovative move.

What Steve Jobs meant by this is if you follow in another company’s footsteps, you will never make any noticeable impact. Think about companies that have innovated something so revolutionary, that it has been woven into our lexicon. “Goggle” “Kleenex” “Tivo”, etc.

Along the road

I have learn a lot a long the way and this course was nothing that I thought it would be. It was nothing I planned it to be and I mean this in a good way. The course really dives into us as students and focus on strenghten us and help us identify our weaknesses so we could improve on them or even use them as a advantage at times. What is in my backpack is one of the subjects that helps you identify your strenghts as well as weaknesses. One of my weaknesses is that I need to learn how to plan better and not te leave everything for the last moment. You won't get through life by just being layed back.

This is my first term and I enjoyed it with all the awesome class mates and school mates. We had a awesome kick-off week even though I don't agree with certain ways of the course doing things. I strongly believe that this course will help me find out what I would like to do in the future. I am quite certain that I will end up starting my own business and be innovative in that aspect. If that happends IBIS will be the course that helped me get there where I aim to be.