Reflection on Capstone in MBA

Running head: REFLECTION ON CAPSTONE IN MBA
REFLECTION ON CAPSTONE IN MBA
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Introduction
This reflective essay will discuss the learning outcomes through the MBA capstone
course. I am quite excited to share those experiences and thoughts that would add colors to the
reflection. The reflective essay is an interesting way to create an emotional bond with the
readers. The reflection is an effective piece of writing that creates a positive impression on the
readers about the messages shared by author (Rubens et al. 2018). The reflective essay is the
pillar of emotional status that has many levels of understanding. In this particular reflection I will
share my personal learning experience on the theories of Capstone course. Thus, the essay will
encompass a solid nostalgic experience of four theoretical pillars, recalling knowledge on
priority basis and activities on knowledge audit. Building up strategic knowledge, marketing and
product and branding strategies. Learnings and abilities on Innovation and growth strategy and
about different models and tools. Learnings on strong career development and market disruption
related to preparation of future jobs. It provides learning on different research methodologies and
data analysis process and other dynamics of change management (Aithal and Jeevan 2016).
Learning Outcomes from MBA Capstone Course
The quest for knowledge was always high within me and to nurture the managerial skills
and abilities I enrolled myself in the MBA course to gain the management knowledge for
shaping up my career. Now I have reached a level in my life where I can achieve things what I
want and this is all due to the guidance that I got during my MBA Capstone course (Choudary
and Ponnuru 2015). These are few of the principles that I have inculcated in due course of time.
From the Workshop 1, I have learnt the skills of Knowing, Doing and Being which are the basic
reasons to create competitive managers. The Capstone course focusses on the four important

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skills for effective decision making in business which includes theoretical skills, applied skills,
practical skills and reflective skills (Herman 2016). I learnt about the components of the strategic
mindset and also systems thinking which leads me to the linear thinking versus the strategic
thinking. After the successful learning from the workshop 1, workshop 2 teaches about the
knowledge on the theoretical skills and applying several lenses of theoretical skills to understand
the strategic issues. The activity of recalling was a part of the learning in the same workshop that
uses the knowledge about the competitive advantage. The final learning from the workshop 2 is
the theory on revisiting that improves performances and identify the core competencies for
creating the competitive advantages. The workshop 3 has learning elements of strategy making
in respect to the marketing, understanding of product portfolio and strategy. I have learnt insights
on the development of new products. The most important unit of this workshop that I have
underwent is the branding strategy that constitutes of the process and advantage of the branding
of products in the market and creating impact on consumers. The theory of product
differentiation strategies of positioning was the part of learning from this particular workshop.
After this I got to know about the Product Life Cycle and its stages and what strategies to be
implemented in different stages to stay competitive in the market. Therefore, this workshop
includes learning on competitive advantages, market trends and future strategies and operations
of marketing and lastly about digital marketing. Followed by this, in the workshop 4, I got to
learn about the growth and innovation factors that impacts the competitive advantage. The
workshop 5, provides learning on certain topics such as, analytical models and strategies for
effective decision making, strategy framework and designing various models to deliver business.
The learning includes the revisiting of various models of business and complete preparation on

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the competing force. This workshop has a specialized learning ability where it provides
methodological research work to get us prepare for the further workshop.
In the next workshop of MBA Capstone course, I learnt about the data analysis, research
work and role of managers in the researches. I got to know about new concepts of management-
research question hierarchy and problem solving. The learning extracted from the next workshop
is about the effective communication of leadership. The importance of change in the strategy
formation, usage of both the people and process to meet the objective and the most essential
element to create small or big changes as the solutions. The learning from the workshop 9
comprises of the discussion on reporting of business and creating attractive visuals for the
targeted audience. Finally in the workshop 11, I have learned about the trends emerging in near
future and significance of skills of employability. The skills that has scopes in the future market
should be mastered as early as possible and till the time comes we should be able to perform on
the crisis (Thompson, Grantham and Houston 2015).
Skills Learned
Problem solving skills
It is an important skill and has a perfect role in today’s organizations. It helps in solving
the problems and challenges on our ways (Levy and Ramim 2015). Being solution oriented is a
skill that can be in borne as well as can be taught. The way I have been trained under the
capstone subjects on the problem solving behaviour it is a real life experience where in the
institutional classroom we used to get real life situations to meet the requirements by solving the
issues. The subject has taught to be solution oriented and focusing on finding solutions to
problems. The problem solving skills is not easy but simple to acquire (Iqbal, Anwar and Haider
2015). The course taught me to smartly deal with the challenges of life and work.