September 2025 Updates and Notices

Dear subscribers

Welcome to the September Newsletter!

Some updates to the website during the past month include:

New interactive Quizlet activities have been added to the following sections of the website:

• Unit 1.4 Conflict between stakeholders here (scroll to the bottom of the site page).
• Unit 3.4 Balance sheets here.
• Unit 5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning (HL only) here.
• BMT 12 Force field analysis (HL only) here.
• A new set of Flashcards and Quizlet for Unit 5.3 Methods of lean production has been added here.
• A new set of Flashcards and Quizlet for BMT 13 Critical path analysis  (HL only) has been added here.

Other updates include to InThinking Business Management include:

• The pre-release statement for the November 2025 examination (SL and HL) has been released on My IB. Teachers and students can bookmark this page for easy access to resources that will be added over the next two months regarding the Walkway Ltd (WW) pre-release statement. WW specializes in manufacturing kinetic floor tiles that generate electricity when stepped on. At the time of writing, there are 8 ATL Activities and 40 exam practice questions to keep your students busy and engaged with the pre-release.
• A new Paper 2 exam practice question based on Japan’s Shinkansen has been added here. You probably knew the Shinkansen (a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan) is famous for its punctuality but did you know it has carried over 10 billion passengers without a single fatality caused by a crash or derailment in over 60 years?
• A new revision summary sheet (in PDF) format for Unit 5.3 (Lean production) can be accessed here.
• Get an overview of everything you need to know about the new Extended Essay(first exams 2027) here. This includes activities for supervisors and students, including a True or False Quiz, advice on the new Reflection and Progress Form (RPF), and a Tri-dominoes activity!

In late August, we were delighted to have welcomed my former colleague Emily Buckland, now DPC and BM educator at International School of Riga, Latvia, as our 2,745th teacher member to join the InThinking Business Management community. I am grateful for everyone's continued support 🙏
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Staying in touch…

Please feel free to join the 225+ teacher members on LinkedIn here. We will be using LinkedIn a lot more for communication purposes from the new academic year in 2025.

You can also join our active WhatsApp group here. Please ensure your first and last name plus a suitable photo are on display in your profile settings. It is important that we all know who we are communicating with.

Looking ahead…

Over the next month, you can look forward to the following being added to the website:

• New resources for the new Extended Essay (first teaching 2025).
• An updated version of the popular Change Please case study for Paper 3.
• An authentic Internal Assessment from the M24 cohort that scored a Level 7. Full comments will be provided by the perspective of multiple IA moderators to guide you and your students.

Finally, sending my best wishes to those in May centres for a great new academic year ahead! Have a great month ahead, everyone!

Best wishes

Paul