Reflection - MBA 600 Capstone

Running Head: MBA 600 REFLECTION
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Reflective Essay
MBA600
(Student Details: )
2/16/2020

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Summary of learning and skills..................................................................................................2
Personal reflections-MBA capstone...........................................................................................4
Personal reflection- MBA course...............................................................................................5
Personal reflection- future career...............................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
This reflection is based on learning acquired from undertaking the capstone subject as well as
several assessments. To do so, I will look back at the MBA course, class learnings, activities,
assessments as a whole so that key learning can be extracted. The learning acquired through
MBA 600 Capstone will be documented and explored so that I can become an effective
practitioner in the workplace. In general, learning is a persistent change in performance that
comes from experience as well as interactions. In addition, reflection learning is the
procedure of stepping back from the experience and thereby reflecting on how diverse skills,
attitudes, behaviours and mindset have evolved during any course. In this paper, a discussion
about reflective learning and capability will take place, which will include the knowing,
being as well as competencies. In addition, I will talk about four essential capstone skills
taught during week 1 in the MBA course. Apart from this, I will present a personal reflection
on learnings gained from the capstone subject and consultancy research procedures. I would
like to mention that a personal reflection related to skills evolved during the MBA course. In
addition to that, I will also reflect on how learned skills will be assisting my future career
endeavours. Thus, based on personal reflections on the MBA600 capstone, I will summarize
my learnings from the future development perspective.
Summary of learning and skills
This section is going to discuss four essential capstone skills taught during week 1 of the
capstone course. In this context, I would like to mention the strategy concepts which have
been learned by me. Such concepts were strategy theories, sustainable performance, dynamic
capabilities, strategic complexity, competitive advantage, and industry change. Week 1 was
very important for the entire module as we have discussed all the key elements such as
MBA600 subject learning outcomes, study resources, assignments, and strategy problems and
brainstorming recollections. I noticed that we all were instructed to recall the theories learned
in the MBA at the brainstorming lecture which is useful to identify distinctive capabilities. In
this context, I could critically assess a wide range of theories collected all across the MBA so
as to connect them with each other (Ash & Clayton, 2014). I got to know that this MBA
course will provide advanced knowledge so that I can apply them in real-time workplaces for
further improving performance as well as a competitive advantage. It can be said that I got
introduced to the entire MBA course and assignments in short. The module’s initial lectures

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allow us to evolve reflective capability and learning which contains the knowing, being as
well as competencies. Moreover, four essential capstone skills seemed highly important to
me. The module during week 1 made me learn about four key capstone skills include several
theories, applying knowledge in real workplace contexts, complex business problem solving,
and planning of management strategic implementation (Keillor, 2013).
The first capstone skill was all about critically assessing a diverse range of theories. Based on
(McManus & White, 2010), I learned about different sources of competitive advantage in the
modern business environment. For instance, differentiation and low cost can be used as a
competitive advantage in real life. In addition, during week 1 I also learned about competitive
rivalry in the form of Porter’s five forces. Thus, the first learning skill covered so many
essential business concepts like PESTLE, SWOT, distinctive capabilities, resource-based
view and performance of the strategy (Keillor, 2013). The second capstone skill taught me
applying knowledge in workplace contexts. In this context, I learned about industry research
with the help of opportunities to improve industry profitability (Jiang et al., 2012). Moreover,
I observed that different sources of competitive advantage overall create competitive
differentiation for today’s businesses. Besides, learning into this module made me perform
and execute financial performance analysis (Hamilton & Webster, 2018). Thus, the
commercial feasibility of change has been learned under financial performance analysis. I
would like to mention that the second capstone skill allowed me to learn leadership as well as
resource endowments, i.e. distinctive capabilities. Apart from this, the third key capstone skill
was about how to solve critical business problems in real-life contexts as well as workplace
contexts. Here, I learned how to apply MBA subjects as well as specialisations to research
key strategy issues within an organization (MSG, 2020). I had to search for Wikipedia and
Google for assessing New Zealand and Australian industrial classification codes. Moreover, I