# BILP Reflective Report v1 ![[Reflections for BILP reflective report#What needs to be included]] ## Reflections on my Knowledge and Understanding All of the modules - Marketing and operations management - Economic theory and its impact on the world. Stock markets, shareholder payments, and the activities of the world's most profitable companies. - Change management - Organisation design ## Reflections on Key Skills - Measures of impact - Ethics - Statistics - Financial Analysis ## Reflections on the impact on my workplace, and how I intend to continue to implement the learning in my workplace - Data led (Dirty Thirty, Alterline) - Transparency - Soldo and devolving financial authority - Pride- I've become more proud of the organisation, given the quality of the culture in the organisation. I'm eager to demonstrate that the organisation has incredibly high-quality staff members working at a high standard. This has probably created more frustrations for me. Next steps - Consider BILP recommendations- organisational design et - Consider the cross-cultural (cosmopolitan?) implications of my role, so that I can further enable the SU's VRIO capabilities, but also translate our organisational culture, design and approaches (including vagaries) to the Univeristy of Salford's senior team. In other words, how I'm going to empower my team to be different and better, while still being seen to play the Univeristy's game. ## Reflections on the impact on my personal life - Changed my strategic plan - Made me realise I leave things quite late - I have now read five academic/ non-fiction books since the start of the year, which is significantly more than - Managing an organisation through a pandemic, with having responsibility for a toddler, to my wife, and little family support makes me realise how lucky I am to have gotten this far with my studies, but has certainly taken a toll on all other aspects of my life, including my career, relationships, and my mental health. ## References Ahrens, S. (2017). _How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers._ Columbia (SC): CreateSpace. Bush, V. (1945). As We May Think. _Atlantic Monthly._ Retrieved 03/12/2021 from  [https://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/vbush1.shtml](https://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/vbush1.shtml) Gibbs, G. (1988). Learning by Doing. A Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods. Kang, S. H. K. (2016). Spaced Repetition Promotes Efficient and Effective Learning: Policy Implications for Instruction. _Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences_. 3(1):12-19. [https://doi-org.salford.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/2372732215624708](https://doi-org.salford.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/2372732215624708) Moon, J. (1999). _Learning Journals: A handbook for reflective practice and professional development_ (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429448836. Mintzberg, H. (1979). The structuring of organizations : a synthesis of the research. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall. Pauleen, D., & Gorman, G. E. (2011). Personal knowledge management individual, organizational and social perspectives. Gower. Sheridan, W. (2008). How to think like a knowledge worker - A guide to the mindset needed to perform competent knowledge work. United Nations Public Administration Network. Retrieved 28/09/2022 from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225070245_How_to_think_like_a_knowledge_worker_---_A_guide_to_the_mindset_needed_to_perform_competent_knowledge_work. McMillan, E. (2002). Considering organisation structure and design from a complexity paradigm perspective. In Frizzelle, G. and Richards, H (Eds.), _Tackling industrial complexity: the ideas that make a difference_. Cambridge, UK: Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, 123–136. Hamel, G. & Zanini, M. (2020). Humanocracy. Harvard Business Review Press. Teevan, J., Baym, N., Butler, J., Hecht, B., Jaffe, S., Nowak, K., Sellen, A., Yang, L., Ash, M., Awori, K., Bruch, M., Choudhury, P., Coleman, A., Counts, S., Cupala, S., Czerwinski, M., Doran, E., Fetterolf, E., Gonzalez Franco, M. ... Wan, M. (2022). Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022. Retrieved 28/09/2022 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/microsoft-new-future-of-work-report-2022/.