Assignment 3
Last 16th of May 2012, we had a very interesting and eye-opener exchange of views on some idea about the technopreneurship and SEED Curriculum. This lecture gave us a sense of a new personal view about being a technopreneur in the field of technopreneurship and on the SEED Curriculum model.
Defining technopreneurship, it is entrepreneurship in the field of high technology and the people governing to this field is a technopreneur. A technopreneur is a people who enter into gratuitously new-fangled and pioneering undertakings. Being a technopreneur, they do not copy another’s idea. He may find an existing idea to be good but he brings enhancements on it before introducing it to the market. Most technopreneurs start at being self-starting but ultimately engage a service under a term of contract to other people to help them in the innovation of the business. A technopreneur is whole-brained, meaning he/she uses both the left brain and right brain. A technopreneur should not be content at being different. He has to make a difference in his innovation.
On the other hand, SEED Curriculum tends to make us the employers and not the employees. As defined, S is for Self Mastery; E term as Environment Mastery; E is the Enterprise Mastery; and, D stands for Development of the Business Plan.
Self-Mastery, a technopreneur has to have a great skillfulness and knowledge of him in order to be successful in the business. This goes beyond knowing one’s Intellectual Quotient (IQ) but rather draw attention to one’s Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Adversity Quotient (AQ). In fact, we were tasked to take a test on Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Adversity Quotient (AQ) test. In my result to the Emotional Quotient (EQ) test it indicates a high score on emotional intelligence. This means that people who score high on emotional intelligence tend to be skilled at interpreting, understanding, and acting upon emotions. They are adept at dealing with social or emotional conflicts, expressing their feelings, and dealing with emotional situations. However, the result also consider to remember that no matter how good your score is, there is always room to improve your emotional intelligence. Consider areas where you are not as strong and think of ways that you can learn and grow. Take stock of your strong points and find ways to continue to develop and apply these skills. In my result to the Adversity Quotient (EQ) test it denotes average level. As Adversity Quotient (AQ) is the ability to rise up after a failure and to go against the norm. Thus, when one has achieved a mastery of himself, he can use the appropriate leadership style required to handle any situation in business.
Environment-mastery is about generating business ideas and seeking opportunities out from his or her environment. An environment-mastered person understands the industry he is in; sees the opportunities, not the problems; is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation; and, is the organization or industry innovator and strategist. When we say about the being an environment-mastered person understands the industry he is in, this is a person who clearly understands what the flow is or processes of the career his in. This makes you live your passion not your bare wants. Also, an environment-mastered person sees the opportunities, not the problems. When some people tries to make to unreasonable problems, do not follow them instead bite into the bright side and make opportunities out of it. I constantly remind myself that I enrolled being an Information Technology because I want to become a solution finder to fulfill other persons’ burden. Similarly, an environment-mastered person is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation. As I remembered, our instructor told us a story of how he was influenced by the trend of putting up a business like an internet café, when in fact the business grows was slightly down because a lot of people also ventures cheaper cost to an internet café and this evidently signifies a tight competition. Likewise, an environment-mastered person is the one, who innovate and strategist of an organization or industry, innovation has become a necessary skill to maximize use of abundant information and create new knowledge for innovative solutions. Similar to current business processes, the innovation process is becoming more defined and standardized.
Enterprise-mastery, tests on how to run a business. This pertains to the knowledge of the different enterprise disciplines such as: creating the business, enterprise mastery is how to run a business thus fabricating its foundation of the business; marketing management, when you start a venture, start with marketing because it creates a promise; operations management, this is the next aspect that one has to look into because operations is keeping the promise and how to make the perception a reality; financial management, the best way to protect your invention or technology is to put only a small margin on your product thus in this way, copycats will not waste their time replicating your invention because they know margin is very low; and lastly, risk management is important, being a technopreneur involves some risks thus technopreneurs have the ability to take measured or calculated risks and such risks involve working out the likely costs and gains, the chance of success and the belief in oneself to make the risk pay off.
And last on the line is the development of the business plan. The last part of the SEED model is for you, as team, to write, present and defend your business plans. Development of a business plan covers: writing the business plan, presenting and defending the business plan and adding refinements to the presented business plan.
Thus, all this stuff abovementioned is very important to note the distinct feature or element in context of the SEED Curriculum.
And on the same date, we had also discussed about nowadays or perhaps the common or alternative mindset and the concept of job. This entails the following default mindset:
The Default Mindset
Defining technopreneurship, it is entrepreneurship in the field of high technology and the people governing to this field is a technopreneur. A technopreneur is a people who enter into gratuitously new-fangled and pioneering undertakings. Being a technopreneur, they do not copy another’s idea. He may find an existing idea to be good but he brings enhancements on it before introducing it to the market. Most technopreneurs start at being self-starting but ultimately engage a service under a term of contract to other people to help them in the innovation of the business. A technopreneur is whole-brained, meaning he/she uses both the left brain and right brain. A technopreneur should not be content at being different. He has to make a difference in his innovation.
On the other hand, SEED Curriculum tends to make us the employers and not the employees. As defined, S is for Self Mastery; E term as Environment Mastery; E is the Enterprise Mastery; and, D stands for Development of the Business Plan.
Self-Mastery, a technopreneur has to have a great skillfulness and knowledge of him in order to be successful in the business. This goes beyond knowing one’s Intellectual Quotient (IQ) but rather draw attention to one’s Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Adversity Quotient (AQ). In fact, we were tasked to take a test on Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Adversity Quotient (AQ) test. In my result to the Emotional Quotient (EQ) test it indicates a high score on emotional intelligence. This means that people who score high on emotional intelligence tend to be skilled at interpreting, understanding, and acting upon emotions. They are adept at dealing with social or emotional conflicts, expressing their feelings, and dealing with emotional situations. However, the result also consider to remember that no matter how good your score is, there is always room to improve your emotional intelligence. Consider areas where you are not as strong and think of ways that you can learn and grow. Take stock of your strong points and find ways to continue to develop and apply these skills. In my result to the Adversity Quotient (EQ) test it denotes average level. As Adversity Quotient (AQ) is the ability to rise up after a failure and to go against the norm. Thus, when one has achieved a mastery of himself, he can use the appropriate leadership style required to handle any situation in business.
Environment-mastery is about generating business ideas and seeking opportunities out from his or her environment. An environment-mastered person understands the industry he is in; sees the opportunities, not the problems; is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation; and, is the organization or industry innovator and strategist. When we say about the being an environment-mastered person understands the industry he is in, this is a person who clearly understands what the flow is or processes of the career his in. This makes you live your passion not your bare wants. Also, an environment-mastered person sees the opportunities, not the problems. When some people tries to make to unreasonable problems, do not follow them instead bite into the bright side and make opportunities out of it. I constantly remind myself that I enrolled being an Information Technology because I want to become a solution finder to fulfill other persons’ burden. Similarly, an environment-mastered person is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation. As I remembered, our instructor told us a story of how he was influenced by the trend of putting up a business like an internet café, when in fact the business grows was slightly down because a lot of people also ventures cheaper cost to an internet café and this evidently signifies a tight competition. Likewise, an environment-mastered person is the one, who innovate and strategist of an organization or industry, innovation has become a necessary skill to maximize use of abundant information and create new knowledge for innovative solutions. Similar to current business processes, the innovation process is becoming more defined and standardized.
Enterprise-mastery, tests on how to run a business. This pertains to the knowledge of the different enterprise disciplines such as: creating the business, enterprise mastery is how to run a business thus fabricating its foundation of the business; marketing management, when you start a venture, start with marketing because it creates a promise; operations management, this is the next aspect that one has to look into because operations is keeping the promise and how to make the perception a reality; financial management, the best way to protect your invention or technology is to put only a small margin on your product thus in this way, copycats will not waste their time replicating your invention because they know margin is very low; and lastly, risk management is important, being a technopreneur involves some risks thus technopreneurs have the ability to take measured or calculated risks and such risks involve working out the likely costs and gains, the chance of success and the belief in oneself to make the risk pay off.
And last on the line is the development of the business plan. The last part of the SEED model is for you, as team, to write, present and defend your business plans. Development of a business plan covers: writing the business plan, presenting and defending the business plan and adding refinements to the presented business plan.
Thus, all this stuff abovementioned is very important to note the distinct feature or element in context of the SEED Curriculum.
And on the same date, we had also discussed about nowadays or perhaps the common or alternative mindset and the concept of job. This entails the following default mindset:
The Default Mindset
“Go to school, get good grades, and land in a high-paying job.”
My aunt wants me to an employee of Davao Light and Power Company as an IT consultant for this job will give me good salary and enough salary and later on be assigned in Clark, Pampangga. This vague idea in which some confidence is placed brought me to great second thought. If this will be the trend to the city this will manifest a brain-drain effect to the city for Davao will be the supplier and the other countries or area will make benefit to its brilliant minds.
This is the occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure mindset that most people have about formal education. Our parents send their children to school with this mindset. Students receive into the mind and retain this mindset and carry it with them until college. Most schools subscribe to and support this mindset. It is like a default mindset. We can formally call it as the employment mindset.
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon of the employment mindset can be beneficial or destructive, depending on one’s perspective. From the perspective of schools or institutions subscribing to this mindset, they take pride in the fact that their best graduates are sought after by companies, offering them attractive compensation packages. This is very unmistakable to those universities who have these promising partnerships with prodigious numbers of companies outside the country to give them good and excellent minds given by these great schools or institutions to enhance and help their state. Let me cite an example, a graduate of computer science course was being invested by some Japanese people to pursue and practice and enhance their skill and knowledge and later on work for them afterwards. So, what is the big deal with that? Those students who have this huge potential in the field of improving the quality of life, supposed to be our lives, are now being allured with the high-paying companies. In the case of Davao schools, the best graduates are lured to companies in Manila, Cebu, and other prosperous urban cities. The average graduates try to remain in Davao but find it hard to land in good-paying jobs and find themselves following the route of their better classmates. Instead, they will venture to other job not in line with their line of course or expertise to compensate low-paying jobs. In schools beam with pride when they get feedback that their graduates excel in the companies they are working for. However, I cannot help but be disturbed by this following reality check. Our best graduates help in the development of other places, not Davao and they have reservations in coming back. This “brain drain” cycle happens yearly and Davao's industries remain thin and their development snail-paced. With this yearly exodus of our best minds to other places, will we allow Davao to remain as a sought-after human resource provider forever? This is a sad reality to face and this prompts us of a local saying, “Tayo ang nagsaing, iba ang kumain.” I guess there has to be an end to this yearly phenomenon.
And if we have this common or default mindset, we have also this alternative mindset that will block what’s a big no notions. This entails the mindset or outlook:
The Alternative Mindset
My aunt wants me to an employee of Davao Light and Power Company as an IT consultant for this job will give me good salary and enough salary and later on be assigned in Clark, Pampangga. This vague idea in which some confidence is placed brought me to great second thought. If this will be the trend to the city this will manifest a brain-drain effect to the city for Davao will be the supplier and the other countries or area will make benefit to its brilliant minds.
This is the occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure mindset that most people have about formal education. Our parents send their children to school with this mindset. Students receive into the mind and retain this mindset and carry it with them until college. Most schools subscribe to and support this mindset. It is like a default mindset. We can formally call it as the employment mindset.
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon of the employment mindset can be beneficial or destructive, depending on one’s perspective. From the perspective of schools or institutions subscribing to this mindset, they take pride in the fact that their best graduates are sought after by companies, offering them attractive compensation packages. This is very unmistakable to those universities who have these promising partnerships with prodigious numbers of companies outside the country to give them good and excellent minds given by these great schools or institutions to enhance and help their state. Let me cite an example, a graduate of computer science course was being invested by some Japanese people to pursue and practice and enhance their skill and knowledge and later on work for them afterwards. So, what is the big deal with that? Those students who have this huge potential in the field of improving the quality of life, supposed to be our lives, are now being allured with the high-paying companies. In the case of Davao schools, the best graduates are lured to companies in Manila, Cebu, and other prosperous urban cities. The average graduates try to remain in Davao but find it hard to land in good-paying jobs and find themselves following the route of their better classmates. Instead, they will venture to other job not in line with their line of course or expertise to compensate low-paying jobs. In schools beam with pride when they get feedback that their graduates excel in the companies they are working for. However, I cannot help but be disturbed by this following reality check. Our best graduates help in the development of other places, not Davao and they have reservations in coming back. This “brain drain” cycle happens yearly and Davao's industries remain thin and their development snail-paced. With this yearly exodus of our best minds to other places, will we allow Davao to remain as a sought-after human resource provider forever? This is a sad reality to face and this prompts us of a local saying, “Tayo ang nagsaing, iba ang kumain.” I guess there has to be an end to this yearly phenomenon.
And if we have this common or default mindset, we have also this alternative mindset that will block what’s a big no notions. This entails the mindset or outlook:
The Alternative Mindset
“Go to school, get good grades, create and own a company.”
In our school, the University of Southeastern Philippines, we are honed and develop to become a premier graduates in the ASEAN region which in fact the school is aiming to achieve and I would to believe it.
“Use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology.” “Contribute and be involved in the technological development of Davao.” These statements offer an alternative mindset. We can formally call it the technopreneurship mindset. Technopreneurship is technopreneurship in the field of high technology. It is the healthy interplay of technology ideas, technology skills, management skills and the technopreneurial mindset. It starts with an idea, which when pursued, has the capacity to be transformed into a viable technology-based enterprise. The socialization through training and education to develop one’s mind or manners and provide with development of this alternative mindset can start in schools. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum can prepare students to be budding technopreneurs. Again, a technopreneur is the one who governs in the field of technopreneurship. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum of Davao schools can lead to the following scenario. Our graduates decide to pursue their technology-based business plans as start-ups in technology-business incubators. In fact, we have 3 incubators here in Davao to cater start-up business. Venture capitalists invest in their viable high technology product. Their start-ups mature into resistant to change of position or condition IT enterprises and eventually locate in IT parks or buildings. The IT enterprises seek or strive for the same thing as someone else in the domestic and global market and spur economic growth in the locality. The local IT industry blossoms and attracts more locators and investors. Our graduates decide to build their careers and families in Davao. Graduates who left Davao return and decide to take root here. Davao becomes the IT hub and capital of Mindanao and possibly the Philippines, BIMP-EAGA, or even the Asia Pacific Region. Davao becomes the home of highly competent and efficient IT professionals with sound social and ethical standards. The Davao schools become renowned worldwide for producing such graduates.
In this mindset, everyone is in great effect of this outlook. Why? When our graduates will create their businesses instead of investing to other country or area, the city, where those graduates live, will perhaps increase its economic aspects because the business will provide many jobs and thus lessen unemployment rate of the area. When our graduates will build technopreneural endeavors, this means that additional points to become the next IT hub of the country, I am referring to Davao city. And also, if a graduate generate a business in Davao and produce many jobs, the graduate will no longer miss his family and friends because longing to your loved ones is a great illness.
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In our school, the University of Southeastern Philippines, we are honed and develop to become a premier graduates in the ASEAN region which in fact the school is aiming to achieve and I would to believe it.
“Use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology.” “Contribute and be involved in the technological development of Davao.” These statements offer an alternative mindset. We can formally call it the technopreneurship mindset. Technopreneurship is technopreneurship in the field of high technology. It is the healthy interplay of technology ideas, technology skills, management skills and the technopreneurial mindset. It starts with an idea, which when pursued, has the capacity to be transformed into a viable technology-based enterprise. The socialization through training and education to develop one’s mind or manners and provide with development of this alternative mindset can start in schools. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum can prepare students to be budding technopreneurs. Again, a technopreneur is the one who governs in the field of technopreneurship. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum of Davao schools can lead to the following scenario. Our graduates decide to pursue their technology-based business plans as start-ups in technology-business incubators. In fact, we have 3 incubators here in Davao to cater start-up business. Venture capitalists invest in their viable high technology product. Their start-ups mature into resistant to change of position or condition IT enterprises and eventually locate in IT parks or buildings. The IT enterprises seek or strive for the same thing as someone else in the domestic and global market and spur economic growth in the locality. The local IT industry blossoms and attracts more locators and investors. Our graduates decide to build their careers and families in Davao. Graduates who left Davao return and decide to take root here. Davao becomes the IT hub and capital of Mindanao and possibly the Philippines, BIMP-EAGA, or even the Asia Pacific Region. Davao becomes the home of highly competent and efficient IT professionals with sound social and ethical standards. The Davao schools become renowned worldwide for producing such graduates.
In this mindset, everyone is in great effect of this outlook. Why? When our graduates will create their businesses instead of investing to other country or area, the city, where those graduates live, will perhaps increase its economic aspects because the business will provide many jobs and thus lessen unemployment rate of the area. When our graduates will build technopreneural endeavors, this means that additional points to become the next IT hub of the country, I am referring to Davao city. And also, if a graduate generate a business in Davao and produce many jobs, the graduate will no longer miss his family and friends because longing to your loved ones is a great illness.
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