Meeting with Nesa Sivagnanam (Executive Editor of Malaysia SME Newspaper)

Invited guest

 Nesa Sivagnanam

Executive Editor of Malaysia SME Newspaper

Date

25^th January 2013 (Friday)

Venue

Meeting Room, School of Management

Agenda

10.00am – Arrival of the guest and staff

10.10am – Welcoming remarks

10.20am – 11.30am – Discussion

11.30am- 12.00pm – Refreshment and adjournment of Meeting

Attendees

1.Prof Dr Fauziah Md Taib, Dean, School of Management

2.Assoc Prof Dr Noor Hazlina Ahmad,Deputy Dean, Academic and Student Development

3.Dr.Amirul Shah Md Shahbudin, Deputy Dean, Industry and Community Network

4.Datin Dr.Joriah Muhammad, Director, Pusat Pembangunan Perniagaan, Keusahawanan dan Pengurusan Risiko

5.Dr.Mohd Anuar Arshad, representing Unit Kepimpinan Kelestarian

6.Dr.Marini Nurbanum Mohamad, Lead of Positioning and Branding for School of Management

7.Dr.Shankar Chelliah, Programme Chairperson, International Business, School of Managment

Guest: Ms Nesa Sivagnanam, Chief Editor, Malaysia SME

Objectives

The purpose of the meeting is to explore Internship, build Entrepreneurs network outreach, participate in SME Congress, and publication of Entrepreneurship activities at USM.

Highlights

Important takeaways from the discussion:

1.Student consultancy Based Learning - Work with SME Malaysia as bridge to connect organizations with a problem that needs to be solved (Academic and Student Development)

2.SME Malaysia provides accessibility to Entrepreneurs’ Database for the use of undergraduate and postgraduate students (Postgraduate studies & research)

3.Use existing Angle Investor business process to enable commercialization, such as Mad Incubator, Cradle, KASS and Advanze Fidelist (Entrepreneurship Unit)

4.UKKL in order to provide training and consultancy, needs to identify Entrepreneurs who are open minded and do not fear in employee leaving after accumulation of knowledge, i.e Harvinder, a successful businesswoman (UKKL)

5.Regular column for School of Management by identifying a theme and a group of authors taking turn to write (IB Section to coordinate)

6.If there is a product to be commercialized, can approach the following methods (a)E-directory, (b)Small event - i.e franchise road show, digital road show (Entrepreneurship Unit)