Tags: GAP 2016
We continued our work in the conference room this week, engaged with several more shareholders, including meeting with staff from HR and legal, and attended a new business committee meeting. We also had the opportunity to meet with Reinette van der Merwe, Managing Director of Bank of Barclays, Botswana. She was eager to meet with us and learn about our backgrounds and our project, and she was kind enough to provide us with her own insights and guidance.
As the focus groups progress along, we have come to realize how valuable face-to-face communication on the ground level of a project can be. The sort of insight we have gained into the UK online clothing shopping preferences is invaluable and using only survey results would not tell the full story. We are feeling good about being able to incorporate this knowledge into our recommendation for the client.
Let’s talk about the Tube! Coming from Ohio, the group had various levels of familiarity with public transportation and trains. Some of us have experienced subways in the US, others experienced trains in India and further abroad, but London has a fantastic transportation system that we have been happy to learn and embrace. It has made it very easy for us to get around, and in turn quickly learn about the city that has been our home for the last week. We are glad to present a few pointers from an outsiders perspective on how to use the London Underground.
This week was a whirlwind end to our time in Ethiopia. We had no time to be sad that we were leaving as we had five site visits and a trip to the College of Business and Economics all packed in to three short days.
As we’ve all come to know, group work inherently comes with peaks and valleys, high fives, handshakes and deep-seeded displeasure. Fisher makes a huge push for group work in the first-year curriculum. Whether it is the first-year core teams or this GAP project, group projects are part of every single class Fisher class. Fisher has adopted the "early and often" approach. We all learned about group dynamics throughout the year, formally and informally. Interestingly enough, we didn’t actually learn about it until second term, second semester in Dr.