Admission requirements
None
Description
Kick off course: a first general acquaintance with managing a company by playing a management simulation game.
Course objectives
In this course, students will actively participate in a business game to become acquainted with managing a company. After this short course students will be able to:
explain what are the key activities and key management roles related to IT in a typical company
describe challenges experienced by people in those roles
analyse common management situations and propose courses of action to resolve typical management challenges
experience your role as IT consultant to advice organizations
experience the ‘modern way of working’ in current organizations
Apart from these learning goals, students will experience team dynamics in situations of high-pressure decision making.
Timetable
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
One whole day very interactive Business Game.
Assessment method
Active participation will lead to V (=sufficient).
Reading list
None
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to register your participation for every exam and retake.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
Programme Co-ordinator ms. Esme Caubo
Remarks
None