The Big Day - Closing Presentations

Thursday was the day we've all been working toward since our consulting projects kicked off on Monday, Oct 9th. It was the day for each sub-team to give their closing presentations to our host organizations, each other, IBM and Pyxera team members, the vice-mayor and other distinguished guests.

My sub-team has worked really hard for the past four weeks. What started out as a daunting task turned into a final presentation to the client with 30 recommendations on how to grow Solo Techno Park on an individual level and to expand it to 100 locations across the country, as is the goal of Indonesia's president.

Our closing presentation went really well. We had 15 minutes to give an overview of both the work we have done, but also some touchy-feely stuff about our time with our host organization and our time in Indonesia. It was a bit of an emotional day for all of us.

Once the presentations were over there was a lot of photo taking and hugging. Then, it was back to the hotel to meet with Pyxera and do a debriefing of the past four weeks. It wasn't disappointing or disregarding, but it's interesting that all of our work from the last month culminated in a 15 minute presentation and a 40 minute debriefing. Every moment that went into our final deliverables was totally worth it and I'm so proud of the work that my sub-team did and all the sub-teams did. I think we made IBM proud.

By 6:30pm we were officially finished with our assignment. What an odd feeling. It was our last night at the hotel with all 13 of us. We went out to dinner and then headed over to 11 12 Beer Garden
for some fun, last moment time with each other. One thing that has been so wonderful about my experience is the Indonesia 8 team. We've become closer, as one would expect, as the weeks went by. The great thing is we all really, really like each other. Sure, there were closer friendships made between some people than others, but there was no splintering off from the group. We spent almost every dinner and every evening together as a group for the four weeks we were here.

I couldn't have asked for anything better or more rewarding.

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