Engineering Management: Personal and Knowledge Development

Running head: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Engineering Management
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................6
Personal Development...............................................................................................................6
Knowledge Development...........................................................................................................8
Action Plan.................................................................................................................................9
Goals..........................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

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Blogs of 10 weeks
Week 1:
The week 1 introduced the concept of the design thinking. In addition to this it evaluated the
need of the design thinking in the organizational context. Along with the description of the
necessity of the design thinking, the lessons of the week was able correlate the concept of the
business with the design thinking processes. The lesson was able to specify the design
process as a detailed projection of the designer perspectives. The week’s assessment clarified
that the process is significantly helpful in effective planning of the events and is widely used
in the business context with the different forms like visualization of post-its.
Week 2:
The week’s lesson elaborates the different approaches of the design thinking process. The
assessment portrayed that the approaches are significantly dependent on the various sets of
skills and the problem solving ability. The assessment was significant in expressing the
excellence of the logic of reasoning. The week also introduced the concept of reflective
writing and the self-reflective aspect of the design thinking. The week’s assessment was clear
in acknowledging the different parts in the form of thinking back to activity, analysing the
activity and thinking the activity as a future reference. The week’s analysis also included a
detailed information on the blog and the reflective report.
Week 3:
The week’s assessment started with the identification of the problem as it is significantly
important to find out the problems in order to think of the solution so that the process does
not contain any sort of mistakes. In the week’s activity, the experience of spending a day at
the beach was achieved along with the precise observation at the other events following the
design thinking approaches. The week’s assessment contained concept of Visualization while

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it was experienced with the master program in the year 2050. The second activity of the week
included the description of the Persona.
Week 4:
In the week’s assessment, a brainstorming activity was conducted. The week’s assessment
clarified that it was a group creativity technique which was employed to find a solution to a
particular problem by obtaining large number of spontaneously contributed ideas from the
participants. In the second activity, a precise concept on the journey mapping was achieved.
The week’s assessment produced the concept of the journey mapping, which on the
organizational context, is considered to be the movement of the customer through the inquiry
for purchase, bargaining, evaluation of the cost in other business operation and placing the
order. The week’s lesson was clear in specifying that the journey mapping on the
organizational context helps the organization to keep a track of the customer’s movement.
Week 5:
The lessons of the week 5 is concentrated on the evaluation of the value chain and value
network. The assessment analysed the impact of the quality products, costs in the value
creation for an organization. It also described the origin of the total profit from the equation
of the total value added and the total cost. The analysis in the week 5 is significant in
prescribing the value network and the alternative VC diagram. Along with this, the
assessment was able to evaluate the value change analysis approaches. The week’s
assessment included mind mapping as the activity. The week’s lessons incorporated the
method in which the information is visually mapped. The method is known as Mind mapping.
Week 7:
This week’s assessment was concentrated on the design research where the assessment
specified that the qualitative approach us preferable over the quantitative as the qualitative