2012 Global Enterprise Experience

The 2012 Global Enterprise Experience (www.geebiz.org) will run from April 26 to May 17.  This is an experiential learning event to develop skills in managing global teams with a business focus. It is free to enter.

The students will have three weeks to form a virtual team of eight students from four to six countries to develop a business concept proposal.  To date over 3500 students from 64 countries have participated.  The 2012 challenge is to ”Develop a six-page business concept proposal on a profitable product or service that links developed and developing countries for mutual benefit”.

The real challenge is to work as effective team members in cyberspace with students from different cultures, timezones, world views, and levels of wealth and poverty.  Participant feedback is excellent with comments such as, “I learnt more in these three weeks than all my years at university.”  Some participants have gone on to make a difference to their country and even their continent attributing their success to their participation in the contest.

Each member of the winning team and the author of the best journal will win NZ$1000 (about US$750).  All participants who complete the journal receive a certificate and letter of recommendation.  Participants can enrol between November 1 2011 and April 12, 2012 by logging onto the website (www.geebiz.org).