The Special Reports are worth 10 points in our grading system. The student makes the report in the class and I ask for comments, discussion. Then they upload this at Slideshare for sharing with the class primarily. The other students do not have to take notes and later on they will remember, in the Slideshare archive, what we did in class. Lasting memories, eh.
1. The SR is any of the following general classification: self mastery, mastery of the environment/opportunity, and mastery of the enterprise. This goes back to our debate on the first day.
2. The SR trains the student to be special (unique, differentiated, noticed), as with the inspirational video. Every entrepreneur must have a compelling very noticeable, differentiated (not with diprensiya!) business to survive, flourish in the marketplace.
3. At least the student must have remembered one thing in this entrep class - his special report, permanently archived at Slideshare.
4. Posting at slideshare publicize the student. Slideshare presentations are viral and places the students name and the topic at the top of Google Page Search. Slideshare is owned by Linked In, a search engine for professionals. It makes you visible to head hunters, recruiters, and other senior executives. You will not be unemployed for a long time
So what are the following special reports all about? self mastery, mastery of the opportunity, or the enterprise (still about nature, nurture, and swerti)?
1. John Gokongwei?
2. Business and the Bible
3. Blue Ocean Strategy
4. Sun Tzu (this is tricky)
5. Confucianism
Showing posts with label Sun Tzu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun Tzu. Show all posts
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Our main concern with standard strategic tools and analysis is that the output is me too business/products
I had some discussions with some Spentrep students who are currently taking up Strama. For them, being the final paper, the Strama is the subject. Spentrep is an elective. I have pointed out and even Prof Fagan of HBS (who worked for BPI as a consultant) that we need applied or practical strategy.
After listening to to Jaime Mandejar's BOS, we can say:
1. If we look historically at products and company history, then we will continue to be in the red ocean, have price war, and red ocean competition.;
2. Then if it is driving forward using a rearview mirror; then, what you come out with strategy will be maybe moving backward or sideways?
3. BOS says that most businesses now did not exist 5 years ago. Therefore, new businesses that are compelling and differentiated would be your best bet. Blue Ocean business that exist in new market space will flourish. That could not happen with traditional strama tools and analysis. BOS means sometimes abandoning the current business models (Schumpeters destructive creation)
4. Also if we use the same tools, same analysis leading to the same conclusion, why are we wondering that we come out with stale or me too strategies?
I will have my entrep students with their creative synthesis, new products with compelling MVP beating the best strama paper.. I would like to see them, think creatively rather than err hmmm strategically. In the confusion of the terms and tools, they sometimes get confused or do not get the straight clear meaning of the word itself.
They might have missed Lidell Hart, Sun Tzu, Hannibal, Clauzewitz and lately that of Gen Vo Nguyen Giap at Dien Bien Phu
Please view my presentation on the subject matter:
Old school strategy is dead
Applied Strategy
Strategic thinking by entrepreneurs
After listening to to Jaime Mandejar's BOS, we can say:
1. If we look historically at products and company history, then we will continue to be in the red ocean, have price war, and red ocean competition.;
2. Then if it is driving forward using a rearview mirror; then, what you come out with strategy will be maybe moving backward or sideways?
3. BOS says that most businesses now did not exist 5 years ago. Therefore, new businesses that are compelling and differentiated would be your best bet. Blue Ocean business that exist in new market space will flourish. That could not happen with traditional strama tools and analysis. BOS means sometimes abandoning the current business models (Schumpeters destructive creation)
4. Also if we use the same tools, same analysis leading to the same conclusion, why are we wondering that we come out with stale or me too strategies?
I will have my entrep students with their creative synthesis, new products with compelling MVP beating the best strama paper.. I would like to see them, think creatively rather than err hmmm strategically. In the confusion of the terms and tools, they sometimes get confused or do not get the straight clear meaning of the word itself.
They might have missed Lidell Hart, Sun Tzu, Hannibal, Clauzewitz and lately that of Gen Vo Nguyen Giap at Dien Bien Phu
Please view my presentation on the subject matter:
Old school strategy is dead
Applied Strategy
Strategic thinking by entrepreneurs
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Special Report of Vicky Zhao at Slideshare on Sun Tzu
Here is the special report of Vicky Zhao on SunTzu now uploaded at Slideshare. It was a required reading for us before. Now it an optional, just a report in the class. A strategist can learn much from this presentation. Many Generals of the modern times swear by Sun Tzu.
I remarked that the 5 elements in Sun Tzu can be like the major component of business plan: concept, objectives, external forces, internal, and the strategy (the law)
I remarked that the 5 elements in Sun Tzu can be like the major component of business plan: concept, objectives, external forces, internal, and the strategy (the law)
Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Ma elsie Dimaano special report on Sun Tzu & His Contributions to Entrepreneurship
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