Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Class response - 07/01/25

My Three Insights

Today’s class was an enjoyable one. I am in the market group and it was a stretch to be able to discover how marketing played a part in the Columbia case study. After a group effort, it was decided that the way marketing played a role in the case study was that there was no marketing done by NASA. It is sad to think that so much money already goes through such a program and it is done without marketing to investors, politicians or the American public. Think of the potential of NASA’s finances if they were simply to begin spending some effort and money into marketing to the American public.
Secondly, we graphed out a popularity graph of NASA over the past few decades and it is interesting to visually see that NASA has really lost the eye and support of the American people. They were popular in the 60’s and 70’s for obvious reasons, such as discoveries, success moon landings, etc. Yet, after every disaster since, they have done little to bring back their image into a positive light. They seem to simply ignore America.
My last thought is that even though it seems to me that we are beating this case to death whenever we start to analyze it again from a different angle, it seems that once we have jumped in and discussed it a little bit more, I gain further appreciation for the things that I am learning. I am learning great ways to learn.

A little side note. Ballroom and Modern aren’t comparable. Only one is really a dance, the other is a weird art like thing. j/k!!

4 comments:

Claudiu Bora said...

I really like the class. I think having peopel participating in class we can see a lot of point of view. There are great ideas that could help the organization to grow and become a team of one.
Claudiu

Ben Pingel said...

I agree with you totally- it seems sometimes like we just can't beat it any more dead than it already is. But there are things we learn if we keep trying, and try to learn. It is interesting to look at things from a more specific angle.

Ballroom Rules! Modern Drools!

Elizabeth J. Neal said...
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Elizabeth J. Neal said...

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