All assignments are done and the thesis is now consuming most of my spare time.   After the exam in December last year I attended a few more classes and submitted three assignments.

• Demographic Profile of Nigeria and the United Kingdom for the period 2000 – 2050
• An Exploratory Forecast on the Adoption of NFC in the Retail Mobile Payments Industry
• Perceived Strategic management challenges (at a company of my choice)

I am struggling to find enough time to work on the thesis.  Ideally it should have been in a draft state by now, by I am still stuck on chapter 3.   The literature review took considerably longer than what I anticipated.   I still need to conduct a scenario workshop and some "structure interviews" to hopefully be in a state of having enough information to complete it.  At this stage I am aiming/hoping for completion in November.

The assignment on "Systems Thinking" was submitted last week.      I am not sure how well it will be received since I had to "censor" a large part of the document due to confidentiality agreements with my employer.   Need to wait and see.

I now need to get my mind in order to study for the exam in Nov.   This is not going to be easy.

I started to work on the next assignment last night.    It roughly needs to cover the following:

• Analyse the existing causal models between what is measured from a performance appraisal point of view and what the objectives of the organisation are.
• Propose a model through which systems thinking can enhance the alignment between measurement and objective outcome, thus narrowing the gap between the organisational intent and its behaviour.

My employer has a relatively complex appraisal method, so it will be interesting to work this one through.