David C Rambles

Lee Kwan Yew Global Business Plan Writing Workshop

Attended the LKY Global Business Plan Writing Workshop yesterday after class yesterday. The whole workshop took 2 1/2 hours and wasn’t really what I was expecting.

Looking at the name of the event, one might have thought that it was going to be a long technical-oriented workshop on how to write a good business proposal, but as it turns out, the workshop was more like a forum. Guests like Professor Reddi from our SMU School of Business, Professor Kirpal Singh, Director of Creative Thinking in SMU, Mr Dennis Foo of St.James Powerstation and Europa fame and a Venture Captalist from Upstream Ventures.

It was a good mix hearing these distinguished guests talk about what they think about business and how the Singapore business landscape will look like 5,10 and 15 years from now.

Professor Reddi, gave great ideas on how should one approach the writing of a business plan, and advised us to take a 7-pronged approach to writing. Explaining that would take probably more than a blog entry, so I’ll spare you guys the agony.

All in all, it was a pretty entertaining and inspiring event. At the networking reception, I was talking to one of the organizing committee member and he said he had also receive alot of feedback from the other participants that they were expecting a more technical-based workshop and that he will put up some technical documents on the website within the week.

I think I need to start writing a formal business plan both for FRRO and for a new business idea me and a couple of friends have in mind.