1. IBS – Business Project (2 cr) Curriculum and Schedule Are we Dealing with a Project ? Relationship with the Internationalizing Company in Changing Business Environments = Integration ? Documentation ? ismo.koponen@...

2. Concepts etc. One Business (ackording to the Cassell Concise Dictionary) is:... 6) commercial, industrial or professional matters. 7) commercial activity. 8)bying and selling, bargainaing, (trading?). 9) a commercial establishment. 10) a shop … ismo.koponen@...

3. Concepts etc. Two Project (Cassell, 1997) is 1) a plan, a scheme, a design. 2) an (especially large-scale) planned undertaking. 3) a piece of work undertaken by a pupil or group of pupils to supplement and apply classroom studies. ismo.koponen@...

4. Concepts etc. Three Process (1997): 1) a course or method of pro- ceeding or doing, esp. a method of operation in manufacture, scientific research etc. 2) a natural series of continuous actions, changes etc. 3) a progressive movement or state of activity, progress, course. ismo.koponen@...

5. Marketing is (P Kotler, M Management, 1997): Analysis Planning Implementation, and Control Project (?): start, procedure (documentation), report ismo.koponen@...

6. Project vs Process Can a project (a planned undertaking) be seen as a process (a series of continuous actions) ? Is any project a process ? It may call for focusing – zooming in – on A part of THE process.