Department of Business Administration
KIVI is a professional association that stands for supporting engineers in their professional practice, propagating the importance of engineers and technology to society and promoting interaction between engineers and civil society.
In doing so, KIVI's Department of Business Administration constitutes a platform for all engineers (ir's and ing's) with a business administration (head) degree or other education who have a connection with the field of business administration through their work or interests. The platform extends from students to retirees and from budding business engineers to engineers in the highest positions in business and government.
The department serves its members. The department does this by organising numerous activities and making its voice heard wherever it is relevant to the field of business administration. The board has temporarily set itself the task of strengthening and improving the Department of Business Administration.
In doing so, the department focuses on themes related to governance & strategy, information flows & business processes, and risk management & corporate finance.
Department of Business Administration provides
Activities
The activities offered by the department of business administration is core business. Meeting fellow business students and interested parties in an entrepreneurial location is important to the department and the department takes the utmost care to do so.
Networking
Direct contact with and between members is paramount at the Business Administration department. The department aims to be a meeting place for all engineers in the field of business administration. Engineers, both HBO and university, from all sections and sectors come into contact with each other and exchange experiences and visions during activities. The department organises, mostly at regional level, specialist presentations, workshops and company visits. National activities are also organised.
What have we been up to?
Company visits
In recent years, we have organised company visits to, among others:
- The Dredging Museum in Sliedrecht (with a lecture by Van Oord's management on the 2nd Maasvlakte).
- New sewage treatment plant Nieuwveer in Breda (Brabantse Delta water board)
- Suikerunie in Dinteloord
- Pon-Power, importer and distributor of Caterpiller in Papendrecht
- Thetford (e.g. chemical toilets in caravans) in Etten-Leur
- Sand separation plant Moerdijk contractor Martens and Van Oord in Moerdijk
- Lips / Wärtsilä ship propellers in Drunen
- The Koepel prison in Breda
- Hilverhoeve country estate in Hilvarenbeek
- NV Slibverwerking Noord Brabant in Moerdijk
Besides some lectures, most members opt for company visits. Average interest is around 30 participants.
Masterclasses
We have also started Masterclasses. We plan to organise two to four of these a year, focusing on business/administrative topics.