PPD and enterprise

Evalutation

Speaking after just finishing our presentation,  I'm actually really happy with the outcome.  I did my best to reserve my nerves and urges to giggle at the most inappropriate of moments.  I think that our time spent working on it had paid off and showed. The fact that no questions were raised was a real rewarder.  We worked so great together.  We took on our roles without even having to establish what they were verbally.  Steph and I plunged into the content with stamina and determination, whilst Aaron and Arthur adapted it a lot more for presentation worthy structure of content.  There were of course overlaps of these two aspects of our team but overall we gelled well into how this was going to get done.  There were no disagreements and we all set out with the same ambitions of producing a presentation for a company we really would love to work for.  A lot of time was spent initially brainstorming what we do and how we could build a business that suited everyone's aspirations.

On the more theory side of things, my initial reaction towards this module is by golly I can talk about myself ALOT.  However this might not be a bad thing.  I have developed so much over this module without even realising.  Corresponding with my ppd module-enterprise has made me see the bigger picture as to an inkling of where I want to get to and how, and how you could be the best designer in the world, but if you don't know your stuff about getting out there, you'll get no where.   I really do believe that is isn't about what you know-it's who you know.

At first I found the tasks quite daunting, as well as the lectures being quite over whelming with the amount you have to consider.  I also found the thought of a enterprise presentation a bit of a waste of time as rude as it sounds.  Yet in fact it couldn't have been more useful.  Despite the hard work it bought down to earth all of the number crunching and long scary words.   It was just another thing to do if you want to get to where you want to get.  It also gave me a bit of a energy enhancement towards my won design work.  Knowing that Im not going to be in university forever is often forgotten.  I will be in third year soon and then I'm out on my own. It was comforting to know that everything I absorbed from this, everyone in that hall is also going to have to consider-so it cant be that hard?!

All of the tasks were completely relevant.  It was good to step back and analysis where I fit at the moment and where I want to fit and against whom especially.  It really hits home what you have to do to get there.  I found that I did go through the tasks very much in my own case study.  I don't know if I applied the theory from the lectures too much and lost sight of the facts and figures.  This is something I may need to revisit to make sure again nearer the chuck out time at college and also in writing my own briefs next year that I really am ticking the business boxes. 

I have come through this with a good attitude to apply everything I have learnt to whatever I venture out on doing from now on.  Even in some small scale research I was doing earlier for a re branding brief-I was making sure-is this realistic? Am I selling something that there is definitely an audience for? Is that audience too big?  Surely that is all you would want from a  module, the ongoing appliance into your own practice.  I intend to revisit everything I have documented and learnt from this module in my coming years.  Especially the costing database handout.