Letter of advice to next year's students

Another item that has been recommended to post on your blog is a letter of advice to the new students, the people that will start next year. I think this is a good tool for reflecting the semester that has just passed and think about your progress. Therefore, you can find this letter below. (For more information, check http://www.rug.nl/Studiekiezers/_shared/pdf/InternationalBusinessAndManagement.pdf)

Assessment Report Leatty Shanghai

In the 'Word it out' post below, I have already showed you the most important words that I have used in my assessment report for Leatty Shanghai. However, you haven't even seen this report! I handed it in last week, so I can post it online now.

I think I wrote quite a nice report here. I have been looking closely at all the comments I got on my last report and I have tried to follow the guidelines on Nestor (our digital learning environment) as well as possible. We will probably receive our feedback (and grade!) somewhere this week. I am looking forward to that and I will post it as soon as I receive it.

Word it out!

Through another blog (http://ilsevanoutersterp.wordpress.com/) I just found out that you can generate nice visuals of your texts. On the website worditout.com, you can paste your text into a field, which will then generate a word cloud, an illustration of the most important words in your text. The most frequent words are the biggest ones on the picture. It is a nice way of summarizing your reports and assignments!

I have tested it myself, by pasting my assessment report for the Leatty Shanghai construction project (which I will post here soon) into the field. The result is shown below, isn't it wonderful? :)

Presentation feedback

First of all, I wish my blog readers all the best for 2012! I am honored that people from The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Russia, India, Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, South Africa and the United States have visited my blog over the past few months. I hope you all have a splendid year (better late than never, I guess)!

Secondly, just before the Christmas holidays, we presented our recommendations for the German car manufacturer Erstaunliche Autos. I presented this case with Sören before (see below) and this time I perfected it together with Marijn (http://marijnsettels.wordpress.com/). This presentation went very well, I think we did a good job in explaining our measures to rejuvenate the company.