Entrepreneurship

Cartoon Influencers: The Influencer storytelling format as a potential mainstream alternative for animated media by Daniel Farrera

04.06.2021 Alumni, Education, Entrepreneurship

Since the early days of animation, creators have been seeking ways to build bridges between the fictional worlds of animated characters and the real world through interaction with the audience. New technologies and social media allow for narratives which cartoon characters can use to have a multi-platform interaction with broad audiences, and create strong emotional bonds with them as the phenomenon that this research classifies as “Cartoon Influencers”. The goal…

Followers engagement on Instagram by Julia Asplund

27.05.2021 Alumni, Entrepreneurship, Student Life

Social media is on everybody’s mind nowadays. Social media had a lot of impact on our everyday life, and it has changed, for example, the way we buy products, search for information, or stay in touch with colleagues. Instagram can be seen as one of the effective platforms for marketers to do social media. Instagram is a worldwide photo-sharing platform, with an enormous 1.074 billion users in 2021. Instagram’s huge…

Strategy Workshop – Paul D. Savage

23.04.2019 Cooperation, Education, Entrepreneurship, Projects

Paul D. Savage was our guest speaker for strategy workshop that took place here in Arcada building in our very own eye tracking room. Although young in age, Paul had been in many countries, done great many things and experienced a lot in his life. This also came out in his presentation as Paul was sharing his insights to things like entrepreneurial mindset, self-motivation, 5 levels of recognition, personal plan…

Tieto visit- An emphatic building for activity based working style

16.04.2019 Education, Entrepreneurship, Projects

Well now, this was our third company visit, to Tieto to see and experience their emphatic building. I have quite a mixed feeling about this. The space is fantastic, and they have such a great views to the bay of Keilalahti! Tieto is a Finnish company developing software for various fields of industries. They are aiming for data-driven societies and to have smarter society (Tieto, 2019). We first got a…

Company visit – Coptersafety

04.04.2019 Education, Entrepreneurship, Projects

Our journey to search for developing a new learn concept has started. Our second company visit was to a place that is one step ahead of reality: Coptersafety – a flight training center that uses simulators based on real operating environments. Helicopter pilots from all over the world come to this unique base to learn to overcome different challenging situations, which makes a perfect destination to our journey. The company…

“Creating work-life skills in an entrepreneurial environment” – course experience

03.04.2019 Cooperation, Entrepreneurship, Projects, Student Life

New experiences, lifelong learning and continuous development are the things that I cannot imagine my life without. I am constantly looking for opportunities to become a better version of myself, acquire new and develop existing soft skills. I could talk forever about the importance of employability/ soft/ transferable/ global/ 21st century/etc. skills, but what I know is that without them – I couldn’t achieve many things… Thus, when a new…

A New Innovation Strategy for the 21st-Century Workplace

28.03.2019 Education, Entrepreneurship, Projects

A few years back I picked up a copy of ‘The Lean Start-up‘, a best-selling book by Eric Ries. At the time, the lean movement had already gone viral. Lean start-ups were, and still are, practicing something called agile development, which originated in the software industry. Agile development was revolutionary as it worked hand-in-hand with the customer. Unlike typical lengthy product development cycles that made assumptions or educated guesses about…

Creating work life skills in an entrepreneurial environment

26.03.2019 Cooperation, Education, Entrepreneurship

We are 13 forward-thinking students with seven different nationalities with a task. We have taken a challenge and will develop, during the spring of 2019 a new learning concept for intra- and entrepreneurial learning at Arcada. The course “Creating work life skills in an entrepreneurial environment” is a part of the Arcada Coaching Clinic project, where Arcada staff is coaching us throughout our journey, although we are the ones leading…