BST: Business Studies: Evaluating "Kiwi Ingenuity" ideas

In this class, for several sessions have been looking at "Kiwi Ingenuity", some ideas that Kiwis have thought of that may, or may have not been the best. We took a look at several different ideas such as the "Van boat", "The Cycle Mower", "Spreadable butter", etc. However, there is an idea which I found to be the most beneficial, especially in a country such as New Zealand. New Zealand has at times unpredictable weather, getting sometimes, too hot, and too cold. One idea that has come up in what we were evaluating is, the 'Kathmandu products'; clothing made from those brands are quite helpful, keeping the body temperature comfortable. Can be used for humid weather, cold weather, and even warm weather. Bags made from such brands are, designed very fit to the terrain outdoors, in the mountain, hills; as well, as being balanced and very durable.

However, aside from that, there is also an idea that I found to not rate as high as what I have done to the 'Kathmandu products', it's the 'Hedge Trimmer'. It may sound as if it is a great product, yet, seeing the design and how it is made; I was anxious even just looking at how it's used. The 'Hedge Trimmer' is a mix between a 'Land Mower, Tractor' and a crane. The crane held up 'Land Mower, Tractor' and was used to trim the top of the hedge. In my opinion, it not only is a dangerous product but is also an uncontrollable/hard to control product; it takes extremely great cooperation from both the drive of the mover as well as the crane.

Moving on, there are also some ideas which I believe would capture the imaginations of people from other countries. One of them is the 'Mountain Buggy', a type of pram that is made from rougher terrains, for parks, rocky places, etc. It is designed to have bigger wheels than its competitors. Another idea that I found interesting is the 'Spreadable Butter', to able to spread the butter on the go, a much faster way than heating up the butter in a microwave, the 'Spreadable Butter' keeps the texture of the butter as well as the taste. These are in my opinion to be ingenious ideas to capture the imaginations and the ingenuity of other people from other countries.

Business Entreprising: Business people - John D Rockeffeller

In our Business Enterprise class we started to look at different entrepreneurs throughout time.  We searched for and looked at several entrepreneurs and started to write about them. I chose to write about John D Rockefeller; the wealthiest American ever, I wrote why he was an entrepreneur, and how he became one. What qualities that he had to be an entrepreneur; here is what I wrote about him.

Market Day!

Today, 26th of September, the yr 7s to year 10s got their market day which if you were following my blog post, it is when groups sell different kinds of products and learn more about how to run a business. Here is a brief explanation of what happened today:

My company was, I'd say pretty successful, we could've made more Croquembouche maybe even a hundred instead of just 30 because they sold pretty quickly. My favourite part of it was when we sold our products, I also really liked when we had to persuade people to buy our product and the last part that was probably the best part of my day; it was when we helped my friends who were in the other groups sell their products.
If I did this again I would probably change the product next time, into something that could be made fast and in which the ingredients will be cheaper, some of the products that are on my mind are, either empanada or churros.

Business and Enterprise - Market day! (update)

This past week in Kete, which is Business and Enterprise; we are getting ready for the market day, have created new posters that we could hang around the school and into classrooms to advertise of product. Currently, we are now just waiting for the day in which we could create our product which is as you know croquembouche. The process wouldn't take too long, only about an hour or so. My group is really looking forward to creating our products and selling it for people to enjoy.

(Today's highlights are that we've finished the new posters that we've made this week and currently putting them up in the classrooms.)

(Ideal Outcome)

Croquembouche Advertisement video!

As said before we are currently getting ready for Market Day. Here is another advertisement that we made. The video is about how yummy and delicious our product is and why you should buy it. Unfortunately, there was a malfunction in technology in which we couldn't put a voice over in it. That is why we decided to just put the text that we were supposed to say in the powtoon video, which was a bit of an inconvenience, but all in all, I think we have made a quality powtoon video, here it is, enjoy!

Here is the link:
https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/eSjC9BsFUPR/?mode=movie#/

Business and Enterprise - Market Day!

This Term, Term 3 would be our Market day, which is a very special one for me because it's my very first one.  In this Market day, groups of yr7 and 8's are mixed together to make teams of 4; then they would create a plan and talk about what product they would produce. They will then decide on their product, finish their plan and mail a letter that would convince the assistant principal to invest in their companies with a maximum amount of $20; which would be the money to buy the ingredients for their product. 

In my team, there is Riege as the CEO, Gerald as the Advertising Manager, Ian as the Sales/Financial Manager and me as the Product Manager. Our company name is "The French Bakery" and our product is called a Croquembouche - (Croquembouche is a French dessert drenched in caramel, it is a sweet dessert that melts in your mouth the moment you reach the middle. It’ crunchy on the outside but is soft and fluffy in the inside.)

Currently, we are working on some advertisement for our company, and in the next few weeks, we're gonna start making it. We hope it would be a success and we also hope that we would make a lot of profit; more importantly we hope that people will enjoy eating what we're going to make with passion.

This is all for now.