Mon 16 Nov 20  20:13                                                                                                                                         Overall I now can write about my experience with Power MBA, which will run to July to finish. Much of it reminds me of the program at Penn State, but much updated from 1984. It explores a dimension that didn’t exist with computers.

There were the old standards, such as which business to be in, strategy, and tactics. Ecommerce integrates the standards, and there’re always guests with their examples of their own businesses and how they built them. Another aspect was market size and on how to segment the market. There are quizzes after each unit to emphasize the concepts. I found it helpful to note all the questions and answers, especially the ones I had wrong. Sometimes – like tests at Block – have more value when taken aside to study.
Business Model Analysis included until economics and engines of growth. It brought back the former program and its numerizable concepts. Does any MBA really think that everything can be explained in numbers? Then platforms brought it into this century. A study of platforms led to assessment and more examples.
The next unit explored segmentation and its significance. The last on is value propositions, which should be complete this week, and with it the close of the second module of the ten.

Tue 17 Nov 20  20:20
Today I had a webinar with the Philadelphia Networking Group. It was about a Networking Toolbox and how to use LinkedIn. We also had leads on other fora.

Mon 23 Nov 20  18:13
Daniel Stanton has a group of thirteen lessons on supply chain management. I inadvertently had taken the first part, so I took the second one. Much of it repeats what I had learned in the MBA program at Penn State.

Wed 25 Nov 20  15:27

Second, I used the stimulus to take a course for certification on accounts payable – already done – and the Power MBA. I also had many problems with the house, so far $6700 in repairs, out of the stimulus. Fortunately, my mortgage is paid off since 2017. My unemployment, after Reaganic taxes. is about the income I had with a four-day workweek there.

In sum, I have been neither bored nor lonely over the past eight months. Besides Block – which will start another tax season – I even took a course for certified Excel, and I’m pursuing other courses with LinkedIn and the Great Course among others.