Commercial Law: Assignment 1

This assignment was a study of the Lai V Chamberlain case where the New Zealand Supreme Court found that Lawyers were a prefessional group and should be subject to professional liability or a duty of care.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_35hfhngtvw

I've Graduated!

I've graduated!

Here's my certificate

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_378ds98zpcp

And here are my final grades

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_380dmr6nhhp

Organisation Behaviour: Assignment 1

As part of my goal to publicise all my MBA assignments I have started adding older documents that I completed before I started this blog in 2008. This is the first assignment from the Organisational Bahaviour paper I completed in 2006. It covers my personal views the importance knowing somthing about Organisational Behaviour in sucess. It was also a taster of the ambiguity that can occur in University assignments. The entire class did badly at this assignment and we got a big lecture on the importance of answering the question and referencing. As it happened I was one of the students of did better than a B+ :-)

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_376cwbm26j3

Advanced Corporate Management: New Zealand Railways Research Assignment

The purpose of this paper was to examine the New Zealand railway governance structures and to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the new approach to rail system management. The paper begins by reviewing the literature on regulation, ownership, structure and governance of railway systems. The research showed that while changes to these aspects of railways governance have lead to short term efficiency gains, few of the approaches that have been used have lead to long term, sustainable rail industries without active management. The study moved on to discuss the market data, ownership and regulation in the New Zealand context and found that the rail system has had a tough time competing in a deregulated transport industry. Based on the financial data, market valuation and poor state of the railways assets; the government’s argument that it had to buy rail or let it die seems justifiable. The study moved on to analyse the new structures, strategies and legislation and found that there are significant concerns regarding the centralisation of planning and control. Specifically, issues include agency problems, information asymmetries, monitoring costs and the difficult task of measuring against the large number of social objectives that the rail system must now deliver on. The paper concluded that a vertically integrated, government owned rail system is probably the best outcome that twenty years of New Zealand style privatisation could have lead to. However, the pitfalls of centralised planning, legislative lag and co-ordination between public and private in a logistics chain need thoughtful management.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_330cqvc83c5

Systems Thinking: Analysis of Gen-i and ACC Change Management System using Soft Systems Methodology

This is assignment #2 for the systems thinking paper. It continues the analysis of the Gen-i change management system for the Accident Compensation Corporation account. The totosl used in this assignment are from soft systems methodology, specifically rish pictures and congnitive maps.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_311f499jffc

This presentation shows the diagrams from the document.

Negotiations: Exam, Dabhol Power Company case

This is my submission for the negotiation paper exam. The exam uses the Dabhol Power Company case study and covers issues of uncertainty, culture, poltical interferance and the use of third parties in negotiation.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9bf7w7_306w2p5c32v

Leading Change: Optimal Usability Case Study Presentation

This is the presentation given by my study group to Sam Ng or Optimal Usability. This accompanies the report that is also found on this blog.