News
In these pages, you will find important news items relating to the Deakin Graduate School of Business, its postgraduate courses and its staff. Other past stories can be found in our News Archive. You may also like to view DGSB in the media or our MBA Newsletter.
Workshop for Innovation and Entrepreneurship [WOFIE]
The Workshop For Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WOFIE) was held from 31 October - 4 November 2011 at Deakin University's Melbourne Campus. This workshop was supported and sponsored by the Graduate School of Business, the School of Management and Marketing and the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Community, as well as DeakinPrime.
Around fifty students registered and attended the event, coming from diverse areas - Business and Law, Engineering, Arts, Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Psychology and Education. Students were placed in teams with mixed disciplinary backgrounds and mixed levels of enrolment - there were a number of PhD and Masters students from the various areas.
Six keynote speakers delivered presentations to the students around the topic of sustainability in action, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student group was given a business challenge that was sourced from an actual operating business or not - for - profit organisation. They were then given the task of developing their ideas around solving their particular sustainability challenge. At the end of the week all student groups presented their ideas in a ten minute presentation to a panel of judges with extensive experience in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. All presentations were of exceptionally high quality and the feedback from the workshop was extremely positive from all concerned, including our team of facilitators who worked with the students to assist them in solving their challenge.
AFR BOSS MBA Survey
The Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine has conducted its biennial MBA survey and the Deakin Graduate School of Business is pleased to have achieved an overall ranking of 11 (of 19 Australian Business Schools ranked by AFR Boss). The DGSB also scored well in the categories of Top Research, Value for Money, and Most Satisfied With School. We'd like to thank our MBA alumni who participated in the survey. Further information is available at AFR BOSS.
Deakin Graduate School of Business' BPM Team launches Virtual Community - 'BPMDeakin'
The MPM701 Business Process Management unit team of the Deakin Graduate School of Business is delighted to announce the launch of its new BPM Virtual Community - 'BPMDeakin.' BPMDeakin is a web presence built upon a database driven, content managed platform (the Deakin ITSD Social Software framework), to enable information dissemination about the BPM unit at the DGSB, and communication and collaboration among its membership of current students, ex-MPM701 students, graduates and industry professionals.
BPMDeakin includes several modes of communication including news articles supported with RSS (syndication); private messaging among members; discussion forums; member profiling; member blogging; blog and article commenting; and emailing. It also facilitates the creation of special interest groups for those wishing to discuss and exchange information and files and work together on projects pertaining to specialist areas. In addition to rich communications, BPMDeakin outcomes will entail the fostering of student sponsorships, scholarships, joint research projects, research partnerships, student recruitment to industry, student enrolment to MPM701, an extended BPM teaching complement, joint academic/industry training and consulting exercises, industry presentations to student cohorts, academic presentations to industry cohorts, industry based 'webinars' and pod casting and a range of
other productive and constructive industry engagements.
All faculty staff and Deakin university colleagues are welcome to join the virtual community. You can access BPMDeakin simply log into the community using your Deakin user name and password.
