All previous period of acquaintance with economics as a science I was operating with theoretical models of human's or market's reaction on different events. It was very exciting for me to try to create models which were describing people's behavior in different situation. Variety of different models from different sciences create a thought to me that everything can be analysed using rather complex mathematical methods. (It is very interesting theme for discussion but this blog is about another experience happened with me several hours ago and I don't want to focus on a question of mathematical modelling of the world. But I can say that this modelling may be done).
So, short story about last days. On Saturday Andrei Nurumov from ICEF suggested me to participate in Changellenge Cup Moscow 2012 - a championship of creating a strategy in real bussiness situations (cases). Of course, solving of economical cases is not the same as doing real bussiness, but it is very useful for unemployed beginners. We created team, 4 people. Today, on Monday, championship started. I was reading the exercise for 2 hours, but I really couldn't understand what I should do because it was my first case. At 9:00 pm we gathered in Andrei's room, and after 2 hours of hard brainstorming we find several ways of solving given in case problems. It was very interesting to discuss problems of real firm and try to suggest advice to it. Many people can people can say in this part of blog, "Oh, this little boy finally understood that the real life is not graphs and equalities but work with real firms", and they will be right. Not the least part of this work was the team. All people were creating more and more ideas, and I understood that I hadn't done anything without my groupmates. Now I understand the importance of professional team because before this event I prefered to work alone. But now I met the problem which couldn't be solved alone.
This evening of discussion very interesting but now we should work very hard to achieve something in this championships. Of course, we don't pretend for the first place, because our opponents are older and have experience from previous championships. But it will give us rather valuable experience, so I wouldn't regret about participating even if we failed in the first tour, what is rather likely.
So, short story about last days. On Saturday Andrei Nurumov from ICEF suggested me to participate in Changellenge Cup Moscow 2012 - a championship of creating a strategy in real bussiness situations (cases). Of course, solving of economical cases is not the same as doing real bussiness, but it is very useful for unemployed beginners. We created team, 4 people. Today, on Monday, championship started. I was reading the exercise for 2 hours, but I really couldn't understand what I should do because it was my first case. At 9:00 pm we gathered in Andrei's room, and after 2 hours of hard brainstorming we find several ways of solving given in case problems. It was very interesting to discuss problems of real firm and try to suggest advice to it. Many people can people can say in this part of blog, "Oh, this little boy finally understood that the real life is not graphs and equalities but work with real firms", and they will be right. Not the least part of this work was the team. All people were creating more and more ideas, and I understood that I hadn't done anything without my groupmates. Now I understand the importance of professional team because before this event I prefered to work alone. But now I met the problem which couldn't be solved alone.
This evening of discussion very interesting but now we should work very hard to achieve something in this championships. Of course, we don't pretend for the first place, because our opponents are older and have experience from previous championships. But it will give us rather valuable experience, so I wouldn't regret about participating even if we failed in the first tour, what is rather likely.
These championships take a lot of time, believe me I know what is it))
ОтветитьУдалитьI appreciate them, because they seemed to be as a real practice of team building and using your skills, the first time I took part in such contest, I realized that theory is not so easy applicable to a real life.
The biggest contest is to learn how to apply theory in difficult models without abstracting of different factors.