Applied MBA

I’ve lately gotten to know a very interesting person who is a telecoms engineer. His educational background makes him unique and knowledgeable: he has a Masters in Electronic Engineering and an MBA degree. His current job mostly entails managing telecoms project for large corporations.

Upon spending time with him this week, we talked about why his MBA was vital to his job. He said that it had informed him of his clients’ work and preoccupations, allowing him to better understand how they worked and what their priorities were.

This means that in addition to creating telecoms solutions that fit their needs, he can help out when installation and support become issues, thus reducing disruption and allowing him to take account of workflow.

He actually maintains that he could hardly do his job without this knowledge, and his MBA delivered it in a form that is useful for most situations he encounters.