Wednesday, 6.3. – Getting into shape

Felix (again) ‘early bird’ leaves at sharply 8:30 AM for MMU and – after taking some pictures of the university campus in the beautiful African morning light – sits together with the class to discuss their findings from the interviews they had with local companies on their balance sheets and their corporate cash conversion cycle. 

Saaka MMU University Campus in the early morning light

MMU's canteen kitchen staff preparing lunch for today

The majority of the students were quite well prepared and had actively looked for information in various sources – including Wikipedia. One group coincidentally had chosen KIKO Tea Company as the object of their studies – Felix had to admit he was a bit envious, since our visit to KIKO on last Saturday was not that successful!

'Mr. Felix' opening the lecture

Boiling brains in team of three ...

... and two students

and 'Mr. Felix' always in the middle

So it was a very busy morning for Felix since he spent the whole time with each of the five student groups, and he comes back to my ‘garden office’ in a quite enthusiastic mood.

In the meantime my morning is – again – on the phone with some banks in order to discuss details of the workshop. I have now won one bank as speaker for the conference, sharing their experience with one of BBDF’s students as intern.

The morning and afternoon is more or less spent with fine-tuning the agenda (collecting company logos from the internet and putting everything together in a neat manner) and a draft of the feedback questionnaire we are planning to hand out to the students after the workshop.

Our Workshop Agenda for 14. March

Late afternoon I sit together with Oliver Schmidt to discuss details for next week, as I am expected to hold another lecture for colleagues from GIZ in Kampala on Product Management and Organisation.

Having finalised the agenda, the event for next week now becomes much more tangible and we agree to send it out to all participants together with the latest version of the MMU Marketing brochure by tomorrow.