I passed!
Yesterday I got a nice thick envelope from NIMA in the mail, containing my official certificate for their NIMA B course. NIMA is the dutch association for marketing, and the NIMA B course is their strategic marketing course. A whole new career perspective could now open up for me, except that I already decided to start a new company where I’ll be the technical guy. Still, I enjoyed taking the course because it is always interesting to look at running a business from a different point of view, and it certainly has helped in the way I approach my current job, where I get to spend a lot of time working with marketing people as we work on innovations and strategy. If anything my SWOT making has improved quite a bit. :-)
In case you wonder, there was no wild party that you missed last night to celebrate, as I already knew that I passed some time ago as the result of the final exam came in. Hmm, in hindsight I forgot to party then as well.
Finally, a shout out to SRM for offering a very good course for this exam, one which, although at times pretty demanding, was a lot of fun to work through, applicable to my day job, and a good preparation on the exams to boot.