Down and depressing

OB:
Hold on while I get dressed in all black, slick my hair (if I had any) and turn on some The Cure . We finished our discussion on the NASA Columbia Shuttle Case. It was so sad to see the video put on by ABC about the total destruction of the shuttle due to a small piece of foam. After my part as Don McCormick, I felt I was at fault. I would have resigned if I were him. Suicide probably crossed his mind. Basically, when it came down to who to blame for the accident. It was.... NASA's Culture at fault. I'm getting upset again just thinking about it, so I'm going on to the next part of depressing class information.

Supply chain:
No quiz, but we will have one next week. Brother Clark decided to show us the depressing look on the world's economy again and this time really hit it home. I get it! We live in difficult times! Enough! Not looking good for us in the future, but I'm still going to be optimistic and be a millionaire.

Columbia Panel

Organizational behavior:

Boy, I wish I had been taking notes today, but I was called to be on a panel discussing the Columbia shuttle mission.my name was Don McCormick, I was an engineer for NASA. I was given a piece of paper by brother Holt, it had a script written out for me to read. Previously we were given a CD, a multi-media Harvard case, about the Columbia shuttle mission. On this CD were multiple interviews and videos of the staff at that time. Don McCormick was never interviewed, but he was listed in multiple telephone conversations. As like many other engineers, Don McCormick is not a people person. I had to read from the script that had many pauses and stutters. This is not what I had expected but was very grateful to my lack of reading capabilities on spur of the moment out loud in front of people reading. You would got a kick out of listening to me stutter and pause while I read the script given to me. I truly do love to act. I really felt like I got into it well enough.

Basically we spoke of what the culture was like there at NASA and how a problem like this could have been made to be so overlooked. I felt there wasn't sufficient data to make a call on anything, but my character did in fact say that with the data available there wasn't any risk. What a pansy!

Out of Class:
We had a huge company meeting discussing the future. Jordan Judd bore his testimony, which was nice, but my personal thoughts on the matter are that it made it feel too much like a missionary commitment pattern and too manipulative. I understand that it wasn't, but in this setting, I would have responded better to cold facts about our progress. Oh well, it was nice to hear people's thoughts.

Garden Burger

Marketing:

Here are some notes that I took in class. We talked little about the garden burgers case, but I seem to have a lot of notes for it. So here are my notes.

Garden Burgers Part A:
Segments -
• Vegetarians (20-25%)
o -no meat
o -Liberal
o -Coastals
o -Bigger Cities
o -Mostly Women
• Health Modifiers (35-50%)
o -Health issues
o -Want to eat healthier
• Cultural Creatives (26%)
o -Spiritual
o -self expressions
o -new ideas
o -environmentalists
o -wealthier
Competition
• Morning Star
o Copy of meat
o Reduced sat. fats
o No animal fat
o 0 cholesterol
• Harvest Burger
o All vegetable
o Low fat
o High protein
o Beef substitutes
o High fiber
o Low cholesterol
• Boca Burgers
o Meat analog

Next we spoke about our Integrated Marketing Project. It appears we're supposed to look to the future about the year 2015 as if we are going to another city, state or national with our marketing campaign. It looks like a very challenging project. Here is a link to the description of the project.

Supply Chain:

Today's class was very easy. With a simple Q&A session.

Just Communucation

OB:
After reading Habit 5 from Seven Habits, "Seek first to understand then be understood" we talked about communication. Here's a great song and video. It's in Japanese and from the Gundam Wing series. I have been on a Japanese kick lately so if you don't want to, you don't have to. We went over this slideshow about communication and then played a game. The Slideshow is missing a few new slides that didn't get uploaded. One of which was an audio clip from Salt Lake, where a lady had ended her traffic report with, "...and I say these things in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, Amen!" I wish you could have heard that. Maybe I'll have Brother Holt upload the new version.
The game we played was much like Telephone. One guy was really bad. I couldn't believe he had messed up so bad, but I know now not to ever use him as a go-between for any important communication. Although it would be fun to try to use him in a prank. You could openly state you were going to be sabotaging his company at a specific time and place and he would definitely get it wrong. The more details, the more confused he'd get.

Outside of class:
Things are picking up and we should be getting the new "Smart Boxes" soon to do some really cool stuff. I hope to make my own beanie with my two symbols on it.

Littlefield Ends/Beat a Baby Seal

Supply Chain:
Our Littlefield Technology Simulation had come to an end on Friday and we kicked BUTT. D10 appropriately named DOMINATION has dominated the supply chain simulations and activities. Mostly due to a certain marketing emphasis deserter who followed her true supply chain calling... Colette Brown. She has a gift. I have a few pictures of what we did, but we did do the best in our class.

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We could have waited...

Finance:
This time Brother Andrews made fun of our companies by displaying a video... this video.

Basically he said if we needed any help, to come see him and he'll be ready and willing to help us.

Then more on (Moron) the time value of money. Seriously, I am not saying a thing about these because you should know these things.