Team meeting

Yesterday we had a meeting with the whole group at Novia. We had just a short and effective meeting so that everyone in our team knows what we're doing, what we're supposed to do and what each of us is doing for the next working day. It was nice to see the whole team gathered (finally) and meet all face-to-face. Shortly we're going to put our individual presentations up here for you to see now that we've decided how to do them. Have a nice weekend all!

/ Jasmine

Second working day

Hello! We had the second working day on Friday the 15th of March in Turun AMK. In out group there was just me and Henri attending at first so the first part of the day we worked just the two of us. After discussing and drawing mindmaps and stuff we got a little bit more ideas on the actual project and what "Banking Service Design" is. Service design is about designing a new service och producing a new concept for an company that need renewal in their service. It's about making the service memorable, amazing and make it work in a new innovative way for the company. After having a little presentation about our company to the other groups and telling about our biggest challenges and so on we had a lunch break.

After the break we continued and now we had another team member joining us. Before we started working the course leaders told us our group has been remodeled and some people are going out and some people in. We're still six people in our group, but with other faces. We began discussing the books we had brough with us and decided on which ones we want to read for the course. Then we made up an "action plan" for the course and decided on meeting dates and stuff that has to be done before the next working day. Well, that was pretty much it!

/ Jasmine

Our poster about Aktia. Info found on the internet and on aktia.fi

Aktia: Banking Service Design

Hi! So it's Monday again and yet another "working" week begins. Today I attended the team leader meeting at Turun AMK and we got to know what company we're going to work with and what our keyword for the project is. As you maybe already guessed from the blog post title, our group is going to work with Aktia and the keyword we got is "Banking Service Design". So from this we have to build up our own understanding on what the actual project might be and read theory before the intensive period at Kunstenniemi in April where we're going to start with the actual project. On Friday we have our first "working day" from 9 AM to 3 PM, and to that every team member has to bring three books each on interesting topics that we can use as theory for the project. From those books we'll choose a minimum of one each and read it and later on you'll see what the book was about and what we thought about it here on the blog. That's about all I know for now.

One interesting thing I noticed at the meeting today was that just three out of twelve of the team leaders were women; I was wondering if that was just a coincidence, do we have more guys doing this course or are women just afraid of "leader" positions? Well this is a topic that is interesting, but maybe not something we want to take an opinion on during this course. I do not take this leader position as blood serious since it just happened that I had the time to attend this meeting and I think everyone in the group are equal in every matter. Everyone should do aprox. the same amount of work and be as active as anyone. Well it was just one of those things I notice. Bye now!

/ Jasmine

Picture from here.

So it begins...

Hello! I thought I'd peek in and tell you a bit why we started this blog. We are five students from Novia and Åbo Akademi School of Business and Economics (HHÅA), participating in the INNO58h course.  We are three students from Novia and two from HHÅA. The reason for writing the blog in English is that we have an exchange student from Germany in our group.  We are a group of different people with different backgrounds, hence the blog name The Royal Mess.

The course started last Monday (4.3) with a kick-off at BoostTurku, where we were divided into groups. On Monday I will attend a meeting where we will get more information about the project and the company we'll be working with during this course. We will introduce ourselves individually later on. Welcome to follow our journey to innovation!

Read more about INNO58h here: http://innostutaan.blogspot.fi/ & https://twitter.com/INNO58h

About BoostTurku here: http://www.boostturku.com/ & https://twitter.com/boostturku

And follow our Twitter to here: https://twitter.com/TeamRoyalMess

/ Jasmine