TrackerSense's Wayne Soutter @ Royal Holloway campus talking Entrepreneurship

TrackerSense's founding entrepreneur Wayne Soutter

Wayne Soutter returned for a second time to give another highly successful guest lecture to the MSc Entrepreneurs at Royal Holloway.  

His TrackerSense product is an innovative high value package geolocation service that is just coming to market.  Students got to learn first hand about some of the real world business development issues that caused Wayne a few extra sleepless nights, including a faulty batch of chips and a software glitch that failed to allow for crossing the Greenwich longitude 'the wrong way'.   

The backless housing was designed as a single cast to keep weight and costs as low as possible. Thin, white plastic offers the lowest signal masking.

The circuit board core is essentially a mobile telephone without a screen and speaker.  

Students were invited to consider questions that currently vex Wayne and his colleagues at TrackerSense, including the challenge of 'what next ?'.  

Wayne was able to share detailed insights into the global mobile telecoms sector, several students whose families are involved in global distribution of manufactured goods were keen to sign up for the product as they saw a number of benefits, most notably the lower costs afforded by its environmentally friendly reusability. 

  

Justin O'Brien, MBA Director@RoyalHolloway who leads the entrepreneurial marketing module, said "I think it is very important to offer students opportunities like this to engage and interact with real world businesses.  Wayne is a very engaging speaker who is incredibly knowledgeable and open about his exciting new business."

MBA Director Campus Update

We are at the end of term 2 and the sun has been shining brightly on our beautiful campus this week, my teaching programmes are complete and the fabulous MBA group are tying up the loose ends on their final assignments before taking a well earned rest over the Easter break. 

MBAs are thinking about real business topics for their individual dissertation projects, the live group business consultancy and making sure their passport and visas are in order for the upcoming international study visit that will see them spend a business focused week, starting in Berlin and finishing in Prague. How exciting !!  

Campus is particularly frenetic (some might say bananas ! see below) with all the teaching rooms busy and several major buildings going up in what looks like time-lapse video pace. My office over looks the new library, which was just a very big, deep hole just two weeks ago – it is now two stories high, with two more to go. 

MBAs have been busy on and off campus with a range of experiential learning visits to the Royal Court theatre, DHL’s catering facility and English Premiership Rugby game (below). Remember: “all work and no play makes Jac a dull person”. 

I have been re-connecting with MBA alumna Kelliann McDonald (below) on a busy weeks vacation from her management consulting role in Washington DC. I enjoy hearing reflections from graduated MBA students. 

PHOTO: MBAs celebrate term end with an Italian restaurant luncheon.

PHOTO: Royal Holloway MBAs offered an insiders facilities tour at DHLs Heathrow airport catering facility as part of the supply chain class. Global logistics partner DHL assemble the inflight catering trolleys for British Airways. 

I am delighted to be seeing numerous high quality MBA applicants formally accepting their places already, keen to join what is already looking like a fantastic cohort. Confirming early can help secure optimal campus accommodation and offer the chance to apply for one of the various scholarships offered. 

Justin O'Brien 

MBA Director

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Royal Holloway University of London

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WANTED: Work Placements for Year-in-Business BSc Management Royal Holloway students

Do you have paid work experience opportunities in your organisation suitable for high calibre Royal Holloway BSc Management students ? 

Hippolyte Petit on placement at The Walt Disney Company

Royal Holloway year-in-business management students spend 9 – 12 months in a paid placement and are available to start between June – September following their 2nd year.

Students seeking placements have achieved at least a 2:1 in their 1st year and are looking to apply their knowledge of management theory to practical situations in the workplace.


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Employer testimonials

Bill Dale Executive Director and the Head of EMEA Product Management Nomura said of our Royal Holloway Management Year in Business student


“It has been a pleasure to work with this student; his attitude and application have been really first class throughout. Over his time with my team his qualities have been very valuable to our business.”

Anne-Lise Rozies, Marketing Executive at GE Capital International said of our Royal Holloway Management Year in Business student


“All in all, this student has successfully delivered large impact marketing work streams and demonstrated a fantastic capacity to work with a large number of stakeholders to achieve a common goal.”



Sarah Hamjah, CRM Project manager at Publics Paris, said of our Royal Holloway Management Year in Business student


“I was very glad and thankful to have her with me during the 6 months. I think that this student grew with this internship , developing how to build a loyalty consumer programme with online couponing strategies and how to manage a big budget. This was a truly enriching experience for both of us.”

Samantha Meredith, Talent Acquisition Specialist at Enterprise Rent a Car said

“We currently have a Royal Holloway student on placement who is bringing a lot from his studies to Enterprise: we really value the input from our placement students.”

Sarah Hunt in the GSK offices

Gabriella Whitehead (pictured left) promoting her IBM placement employer back at Royal Holloway

Diana Stinger and Kwok Lam finding out more about the placement positons available at DHL from Kevin Webber – DHL Head of Performance

Must Be Amazing ?

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Have a colleague or friend who you rate highly, but who is just perhaps missing that "something" that would help transform their career prospects ? 

My job title of MBA Director at Royal Holloway often generates the response "Must Be Amazing" and on so many levels it truly is; one of the world's most beautiful campuses, helping to nurture bright, fresh eager minds and working alongside a great bunch of colleagues.
 

I love my exciting and fulfilling role. Each year I get to help transform an internationally diverse, work experienced group over the course of an intensive year long study programme. They really do learn to look at life differently. 

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No such thing as a free lunch ? MBAs celebrate the end of term 2

A long lunch (between classes) off campus at a local Italian restaurant in Virginia Water was the ideal venue for hard working MBA international management students to chillax a little with some of their teaching team this week.  

Stress ? We're super happy campers.  

Even high flyers have to pause to eat, right ?

Pontificating over puddings.  Perfeck !

 I nearly caught Jake unwares with this photo - but can't think of a cheesie one liner for this image.  It's just cool.  

MBA Programme administrator Michelle Casey always loves a NAME CHECK.  Thanks goest out to tech focussed senior lecturer Hari for arranging the luncheon.  

Proving that there is no such thing as a 'free' lunch - some of the MBAs were secretly recorded working....

Don't tell UK Prime Minister David Cameron's eurosceptic colleagues, but European BLUE is the vouge colour...

Dom is always too quick for my camera skills... whilst Igor gets stuck in.

MSc Entrepreneurship students going bananas

 MSc Entrepreneurship students go bananas !  

Justin O'Brien uses an inductive approach with Royal Holloway masters students to develop a marketing plan for banana guards, Canadian PVA free plastic, kiddie friendly covers that transform squashy bananas into a more practical option for packed lunches.  

 MBA Director Justin O'Brien shows his own sense of fun in a rather too tight banana outfit to make the session stand out and reinforce his mantra of fun learning.  

MBA@Royal Court 'Escaped Alone'

Royal Holloway MBAs were confronted by four ladies having a chat in the back garden at a contemporary Royal Court stage production.   The original Caryl Churchill play 'Escaped Alone' offered intermittent insights into life after floods killed almost everyone on earth, using a very British cultural delivery style. 

Rather surprisingly the play was only 50 minutes long and skipped the lucrative drinks and often expensive ice cream sales bonanza intermission.  

Professor Chris Smith attended with MBA administrator Michelle Casey, who found the production to be though provoking with a few lighter laugh out loud moments.  

Happy to chalk up yet another cultural experience on their International Management MBA programme, students were greatly impressed by the historic and intimate venue and found the play interesting.  

If that is not too much of an English euphemism ?