Anglia Ruskin team wins semi-final at Proctor & Gamble Friday 13th February
Lukasz, Daniel, Robert (Lecturer), Martin and Pascal 
AIBS team at work 
Winners of the UBC semi-final in Weybridge 
AIBS team after the UBC semi-final with lecturer Robert Jones AIBS student team wins semi-final in the IBM Universities Business ChallengeArticle by Robert Jones (Lecturer AIBS) 
http://cambridgearea.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/aibs-student-t... One of my AIBS student teams won through their IBM UBC heats (held October - December 2008) in which 240 university teams competed. 80 teams went through to the ten semi-finals.
I collected the team - Lukasz Mlodyszewski (Poland), Daniel Kasberg (Germany), Martin Witthoeft (Germany) and Pascal Bornet (France) - at 6am outside the Helmore building on Friday 13th February 2009 and we made our way to the semi final at Proctor and Gamble headquarters at Weybridge.
The journey was quite eventful - snow-covered roads in Cambridge, the A505 closed by flooding, and a very slow moving M25 which resulted in our arriving one hour late at P&G. However the UBC organisers delayed the start of the competition until we arrived.
Lukasz, Daniel, Martin and Pascal quickly settled into the first round of the all-day business simulation. They made an excellent start by taking first place as a result of their clear and daring strategies. In the second round, an excellent team from Sheffield Hallam made a dramatic recovery from their first round deficit and overtook my team.
Sheffield Hallam increased their lead at the end of the third round and it was a two horse race going into the final round. After a nail-biting wait for the results, the Anglia Ruskin team was pronounced winner of the semi-final, by a considerable margin. The long game strategy selected by Lukasz, Daniel, Martin and Pascal had finally paid off.
The team will now appear in the UBC grand final at IBM Europe headquarters on Friday 6th March, competing with the top teams including three teams from Imperial College and two from Exeter.
Anglia Ruskin teams have won through to the grand finals in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Glyn Burton's team was second to Manchester University in 2006 and my team won in 2008. Official IBM UBC website with pictures of all finalists:www.uk.ubcworldwide.com/content/this_years_finalists.asp Article on the Ashcroft International Business School homepage:www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/aibs.html
Research For my Bachelor thesis I was looking for spontaneous statements to the following hypothesis:
"The most flexible person in a team will end up leading the team.” The posts of the following forums were included in the analysis:
Xing - BUSINESS FORUMS Global Business (20):
English:
www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17523710 Consulting Business (8):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17526939English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17526806 Leadership Symposium (5):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17525706English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17525516 Leadership Forum (3):
English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17518435 Wirtschaft & Spiritualität (2):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17568755 Teamentwicklung und Teamführung (2):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17510723 Leadership & Management Forum (2):
English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17568386 Xing - SYSTEMIC FORUMS Education, Training & Coaching (9):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17518072 NLP-Community (8):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17513969 Coaching Convention (6):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17514633 Systemische Strukturaufstellungen (4):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17525935 Systems Approach (1):
English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17627509 Systemische Organisationsberatung (0):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17513011 Xing - OTHER FORUMS: brand eins Community (7):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17526198 Querdenker Club (6):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17512475 Cross-cultural communication (3):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17513500English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17517222 Modern Nomads (1):
German:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17521075 Debate Club (1):
English:www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;id=17517763 LinkedIn - BUSINESS FORUMS: Leadership Think Tank (21):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... Business Excellence Professionals (9):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... Change Consulting (7):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... Worldwide Management Consultants (5):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... European Young Professionals (1):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... LinkedIn - SYSTEMIC FORUMS: NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) (11):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... System Dynamics Practitioners Global Network (7):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... Systems Thinking Systems Thinking (4):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... Systems Thinking and Lean for Services (3):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... NLP Network (1):
English:www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gi... LinkedIn - OTHER FORUMS:
LinkedIn Answers (122):
English:www.linkedin.com/answers/management/organizational-developme... Selected companies - NLP FORUMS:
Performance Partnership NLP Forum (6):
English:www.performancepartnership.com/docs/forum/discussion.php?mes... Matrix Training Solutions NLP Forum (2):
English:www.matrix-training.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Pages.TopicDeta... (..) number of replies287 replies in total 
Academic work My
Bachelor thesis can be viewed here:
http://Thesis.witthoeft.eu My assignments from the
previous semester can be viewed here:
http://Scribd.witthoeft.eu
