Date and Time
Hybrid workshop (offline & zoom stream): Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 12:00-13:00.
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Contact
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Programme
In this brown bag seminar one of our most experienced case teachers, Steven Sweldens, will talk about how he created aha! moments in his prize-winning and bestselling case “TomTom: Mapping the Course from B2C to B2B”. He will share where he got ideas for the aha! moments, how he crafted them into the case, and how he brings them to life in class discussions.
An ‘aha! moment’ is a moment of sudden realisation, one of eye-opening surprise when everything falls into place. The outcome is unexpected, yet it makes perfect sense once revealed. Such moments are the crux of many good case discussions. Students leave the classroom exhilarated and take away a lasting impression of that epiphany experience.
An aha! moment doesn’t ‘just happen’. On the contrary, it’s the culmination of intensive thinking, discussing, debating, shifting perspectives, and overcoming one’s blind spots. Creating such a moment requires deliberate groundwork as well as the skills to facilitate a discussion that will lead to the desired learning results.
The TomTom case has several aha! moments. The learning is counter-intuitive. By the end of the class students arrive at conclusions that are different from what they expected at the beginning of the discussion. This gradual build-up and an epiphany at the end promise an engaged, rewarding and memorable learning experience. The videos accompanying the case add to the vividness of the experience.
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See you on November 16th! All you need to bring is yourself and your lunch.
The CDC team