{"id":158,"date":"2023-11-13T20:46:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2023-11-26T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:31:35","slug":"mba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/mba\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"Alan returned to education in 2012 and a desire to innovate, lead and bring\nall the technical experience to fruition in being able to build a business.\n\nBeing resident in Brighton and the advertisement for part-time study being available,\nBrighton Business School gave the opportunity to learn practical leadership and\nmanagement skills on the CMI Level 5 Management and Leadership course.\n\nThis sawme promoted in my professional life from purely technical to leading a team,\nbecoming an Environments Manager requiring my newly acquired managerial skills\nand dependence on many years of technical knowledge.\n\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\nMy efforts on the 1 year course saw the additional award of sustained\ncommitment to critical enquiry, to which Monica and Paul joined me on the award\nceremony. With my professional career now continuing, I obtained Chartered\nManager status (Cmgr MCMI) and provided a blended technical and management\nlead.\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\nHaving been inspired by my educators at Brighton, I decided to take the next\nstep and take on the challenge of an Masters in Business Administration\npart-time.\n\nThe MBA at Brighton provided me with the motivation to start my own\nbusiness providing consultancy services, having not only the technical\nknowledge to provide what consumers needed, but the leadership and management\nskills to provide a strategy to give the business the best chance of success in\na competitive market.\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\nUnits of the MBA &#8211;\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul><!-- wp:list-item -->\n \t<li>STM22 \u2013 Management Environment &#038; Economics B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>HRM84 \u2013 Managing People and Organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>MKM51 \u2013 Strategic Marketing Planning in an International Context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>FNM18 \u2013 Accounting &#038; Performance Management Assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>IMM08 \u2013 Managing Innovation B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>STM37 \u2013 International Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>2017 MLM04 \u2013 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Planning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>OPM54 \u2013 Information Systems, Operations and Process Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>2017 MNM97 \u2013 Developing Strategic Knowledge, Innovation &#038; Change Management Capabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\nThe dissertation was a mixture of technology and business having experienced first had the issues of recruitment and joining an organisation, I completed a study on the use of reduction of transaction costs and how the use of an empirical identity management system supported by blockchain could reduce those costs.\n\nMy dissertation was awarded Merit grade and I obtained an overall Merit on the MBA.\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":224,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"wp-image-224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1535b403-0cdf-412a-9444-bb04f044b773_2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After 4 years of part-time study, it was time for my 3rd graduation at the Univeristy of Brighton. 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