Definition of Terms

ProjectManagement Assignment 1:

What is a project?
What is management?
What is project management?
(your reflection/learning's on the first day of class)


When probability is not at 0.0%, it's too soon to quit! Effort is always the key to a great success. Starting this one, “Project management” is a subject being introduced to us to learn the art of organizing the elements of a project, to apply it to our upcoming projects and to avoid failure. Most of the cases, a project haven’t being properly organized results to failure. On the first or second day of class, we had already taken a quiz about the given question, where in it was a time pressured and to admit that after the lecture I had realized that partly of my answers was quite wrong. Sharing of ideas and experiences had been added to clarify the importance of the course subject, and hearing all of it, I could conclude that failure always accompany the time. Time is really crucial and must be considered. Deadline is always a deadline, that’s what my professor said through a joke, but taking it seriously he is typically right about that! And to stress out that pin pointing somebody instead of our selves have been usually done in several cases as a project fails. Now let’s start defining some terms, the project, management and even the project management itself.

So, what is a project?

-Project, a word that is so known to all individuals, not only for the working individuals but also for students like us. For working individuals, projects are given to generate several applications for the use of the company they were in. And for students like us, projects are given to apply the learning and test the capability of a student. Project is a task which is a temporary or has a given due that must be considered. Projects undergo in several steps. A project is consisting of several elements; these elements are those tasks that are needed to be accomplished inside a project. Within a time line, elements of a project are specified and are sorted together to manage the whole project. It is also said that a project is a set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations. A project is an undertaking requiring concerted effort, undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.

-A project must be punctual (time is crucial for a project is temporary and has a definite end), must be passed in its deadline and must meet its requirements. As what I have learned in our first meeting and by reading the given soft copy of a book, a project is consist of some characteristics, it has mainly three (3) major characteristics and these are the; Temporary; Unique products, Services and Results; and finally it is a Progressive elaboration.

-Dealing with these characteristics, let me elaborate it one by one:

oTemporary – a project is said to be temporary because it has a specific due date. It has a definite beginning and an end. And projects must be punctual at any cost. A project is a temporary activity with a starting date, specific goals and conditions, defined responsibilities, a budget, a planning, a fixed end date and multiple parties involved. Therefore, a project has a limited time and the members involved in the said project must cooperate to comply and meet its requirements before the time surpass them.

oUnique products, Services and Results – relating this one on our technopreneurship one (1) last semester, where in we were oblige to make our proposals as our main project for the subject. As far as I could remember, we were ask to have a business proposal which are unique and could serve and render a good quality of service. This is a definite example of a project having this type of characteristics being stressed out. A project must be unique to ensure or certify its quality. It must have the capability of performing and rendering good service. And most of all, a project must have a good outcome or a satisfying result. The projects result must meet the certain demands and qualifications and it must be on time to show a good result.

oProgressive Elaboration – as what I had said earlier, a project is composed of elements and these elements are performed in steps. Once more a project is a set of related tasks which have a specific goal. A project is a progressive elaboration or in other words, it undergo in several steps of progression. A project is a set of interrelated tasks to be executed in steps to have its coordination. It is a characteristic of a project that has the concept of temporary and unique; to elaborate it more; it has the concept of temporary in a way that each steps of its progress has a definite beginning and an end. And the concept of being unique for each of its progress of steps must be unique, so that the project will be more competitive against any other projects of its kind.

-A project is done with several individuals in a group. Now, these projects may fail or succeed depending on the performance if the member within its group. The unity of each member and the eagerness to finish a certain project might be one of the basic keys to its success.

ProjectManagement Assignment 1: Now, what is a management?

-In our lesson, or what I had understand in their sharing’s: management is the organizing and maintenance of a specific thing or task. A manager is the one responsible for organizing or controlling other people to have an accomplishment or to make things or decisions for the efficiency of a desired goal.

-As what I had learned on the first meeting of class, we had clarified the great difference between a good leader and a good manager. Anyone could be a leader but not a manager, and a having a leader is much more effective than having a manager. Directors and managers who have the power and responsibility to make decisions. Manager is the one who controls the members, giving some orders that must be applied on a progression of a project or something. Before, I thought that leading and managing are two similar things, but then I had realized that they had a great difference especially when applied in managing a project. Directors and managers who have the power and responsibility to make decisions to manage (they had the authority to control things that any regular employee couldn't make). As mentioned in the sharing, a leader unlike a manager can lead his or her members in a proper way, not by instructing or dictating them what they should do, but instead being a good model for his team mates and showing them a bunch of efforts for them to have a motivation and start doing things to reach their goals. The ideal project manager does whatever it takes to ensure that the members of the software project team can do their work. This means working with management to ensure they provide the resources and support required as well as dealing with team issues that are negatively impacting a team's productivity. The project manager must possess a combination of skills including the ability to ask penetrating questions for further informations, and resolve some conflicts along with more systematic management skills. A team with a leader not a commander or a manager which leads them properly will surely have the success for doing their tasks.

-Also for the first meeting, I had learned that management comprises planning, organizing, directing, and controlling an organization (PODC). Management is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired their objectives effectively. The process of planning, leading, organizing and controlling people within a group in order to achieve goals.

oPlanning – planning is a part of managing; it is where the proponents or the manager plans the idea and concept of a task or project. This is where they randomly put several ideas for a proposal, which is why it is called a plan. Planning is an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action. Deciding what needs to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next 5 years, etc.) and generating plans for action.

oOrganizing – or simply the implementation of the random plans. Here, ideas from planning are being arranged and “organized” to have a lead of the desired goal. In organizing, we must also consider some factors such as resources. We must also consider resources such as tools or money for the progress of the project or in short making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.

oDirecting – is having a command with authority. Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it. Having the authority to conduct or rather to give several instructions. Having a part of leading and conducting. To immediately finish a work, the manager must direct his own followers or members to make it stable.

oControl – another part of managing which only managers can apply, for leaders could not put a control over his members because of the authorization matters. Controlling was being associated to leading, but in further studies both of them have different meanings depending on how they were applied as what I had explained earlier. Controlling is also concern in checking the progress against the plans.

-To manage is to be in charge to secure all tasks and things; managing something is not as easy as it looks for it takes to be allotted a huge time to master it, but being a leader only needs skills to pursue. Effective utilization and coordination of resources such as capital, plant, materials, and labor to achieve defined objectives with maximum efficiency. I think I had already sited the differences between a manager and a leader, so far that’s a part of what I had learned that day.

-For example: in a company or let’s put a bank as the center of our example, in a bank there is a manager who manages all the transactions, it is him or her who controls all the transactions and is the center of the decision making beside the owner. He or she is the one who directs the business.

And finally what is a Project Management?

-Project Management has been described in the book as the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Now think about this, having a big project without any project management, can someone guess the sure result? Yes! Probably it would result in failing; it is somewhat like cooking a viand without even planning what goes first and what goes next. Imagine that you are making a project without having any organization of the stuffs or rather the elements that must be done; it would surely result in a total disaster for you will not know when you’ll be having a critical times. They say that project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives to meet their common requirements.

-Several applications may be used to serve as the medium in performing a project management, these applications caters several fields to help in planning a project. These applications have time-lines that have its beginning period or the start and the due date or the end. These applications can also define the critical parts, and could also help the user guide his or her way to finish the project in the said time.

-At the first meeting I was also introduced to the three important details that could affect a project, it was also known as the triple constraint which forms like a triangle of important details that must be needed to consider inside a project management. The triple constraint involves the project Scope, Time, and Cost. These three must be balance for the quality of the project. A project must be within its budget, and must consider the time which is known as a temporary. The proponents must plan the scope of their desire project to define or know the specific project requirements. The project scope is the definition of what the project is supposed to accomplish, its goals and requirements, and the budget of time and money that has been created to achieve these objectives. It is absolutely unavoidable that any change to the scope of the project have a matching change in budget, either time or resources. It is unavoidable to leave the resources and time exactly the same as the older planned limitations as the scope changes, for the reason that when a projects scope changes, it is expected that it involves the evolution of it or rather widening its scope which deals more time and budget. A project must not surpass its limited budget and most of all, must not surpass the given time. In short it must be punctual and in budget. All these elements are interrelated. Each must be managed effectively. All must be managed together if the project, and the project manager, and the project proponents are aiming a good success.

-And also, managing a project includes: identifying the requirements; establishing clear and achievable objectives; balancing the competing demands for quality, scope, time, and cost; and adapting the specifications, plans and approach to the different concerns and expectations of various stake holders. In a project, identifying its requirements is basically an important thing to do; the proponents must know its requirements for its quality and service purposes. As mentioned earlier, the triple constraint could merely affect the quality of a project, its time, budget of cost and the scope of the project must be considered to reach the projects objective and goals. And most of all in managing a project, planning the sequence of the project elements is a must, to avoid heavy duties and lessen the critical times. Planning and knowing the further solutions that must be needed to apply in the coming challenges or problems inside the said project.

-The term project management is sometimes used to describe something, such as an organizational or managerial approach to the management of projects. And indeed having project management is a real big thing with a real big help in establishing a good quality project.

-Project management as what they had said is carefully planned and organized, and had putted an full effort to accomplish a specific and usually one-time objective, for example, construct a building or implementing a major new computer system (where in making a system needs to have a proper managerial or project management, the whole project must be broken to several elements to avoid errors or conflicts or anything). Project management includes developing a project plan, which includes defining and confirming the project goals and some of its main objectives, its targets, identifying each tasks and how the goals of the project will be achieved, and determining budgets and time-lines for completion. And by the way, in planning a task, it is not always about doing things one at a time, sometimes having two or more things can also be considered depending on the availability of a worker or the toughness or difficulty of a given task, and also depending on the tasks pre-requisites of the said common elements within a project.

An abbreviation was also included in our lecture, it was the S.M.A.R.T. which literally means Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reliable, and Time bounded. Five basic keys needed to be considered for the great progress of projects. Most of these basic keys are already discussed above except the part of being reliable. I wonder why I had missed this one important thing, but anyway back to business; reliable, a project must be reliable especially when we are talking about a project consisting of a system. The outcome of the project must be reliable and could handle or produce a good quality performance for several users will surely rely on it.

As I go for a deep research (with a little help from a source for the copy of the file) about the project management as a whole, we had found a file which is an interesting one, which states the Law of project management. These are:

oProjects progress quickly until they are 90% complete. then they remain at 90% complete forever – as what I had understand, it means that a project similarly takes steps of procedures and progress as time passes, that is why we couldn’t get a 100% project completion because of the several changing demands as the technology evolves.

oWhen things are going well, something will go wrong. When things just can't get worse, they will. When things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something – expect the unexpected, that’s the term they usually connect on these situations, which basically means never let your guard down, possibilities do come even in the smallest percentage of it. A project needs effort, and you’ll never avoid challenges to come in any projects.

oIf project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress – lots of changes but still not conquering the main objective of the project, before any changes we must first consider our project objectives, the aims and goals of the project.

oProject teams detest progress reporting because it manifests their lack of progress

For now, I think that’s all what I have learned on our first meeting and on my own researching. The importance of having a project management, the difference between a leader and a manager, the basic keys and elements that must be consider to have a good, satisfying and high quality result of a project, the main characteristics of a project, the things that managing is involved into and etc.. That’s all for this topic and always remember “Only those who endure defeat become stronger. The most elite are those who stand right back up and keep working. The average ones hesitate a moment, and take longer to rise. And the losers are content to stay flat on their backs.” Always put a 100% effort on the things you do and never plan or aim of failing

Death of Consumers

Techno2 Assignment 5: Your understanding about "DEATH OF THE CONSUMERS" .

In the previous task, I had managed to discuss the convergence, its trend and the opportunity it brings. And as mentioned, this trend has a huge scope since there are lots of evolutions that had been gone through within the market, and in hand to this evolutions are the opportunity it had opened among the people. Making these people change their lives, the way they act and the way they think, thus later making a change to the world for people are the basis of its change. This task’s topic is a part of the previous task. Actually I had included a part of this to that text, introducing the part of consumers against prosumers, their death and most of all on how they had evolved and their main differences. I guess I’ll just have to elaborate it further more to make it through the word count.

As we all know, market is about the producers and consumers (aside from the products they were involved in), producers by its name are the one who produces products for the benefit of the consumers. And consumers are the core of the market. Basically without them, market would not live for they are the one who uses and bought the products. These consumers and producers together with the market are all altered by the convergence, wherein convergence is the part where the market had adopted technology to bring a great development and changes. The eagerness of the consumers to have the new trend of technology (which is offered by the market) is mainly the cause of the evolution, for these people crave for more. The contentment of these people is really hard to meet, forcing the development for knowledge and technology, which is also a good thing. The adoption of technology by the producers had been also a way to create a battle and to show their competitive skills against the growing market standards and their competitors, which also leads for a healthy competitors that makes the balance out of it. As a result to this, producers are pushed to engage in several ways to cater their products, thus making the costumers secured about the benefit they can assure for the cost they had paid (simply the cost benefit – lesser cost of a certain product of service at a higher value of performance given).

Again what is convergence? What is thing really about? How we had come up with this exotic idea and grabbed the opportunity of playing with the flow out of it… convergence as what we had discussed on the previous meeting is the union of the old fashioned market with the advance technology. Pulling the best of it, this convergence had mainly change the world through the use of market and technology, giving birth to a new trend of marketing. This had cleared several ways for entrepreneurs to involve technology on their businesses, having a different technology to offer and satisfy clients’ needs and wants. As the trend of conference expands lots of marketing ideas and techniques had been generated to deliver company products. . Internet technology is totally re-defining how businesses are being modeled and how business strategies are being implemented. As this convergence over the market had developed, the people’s quality of life style or their way of facing the market has changed. Having this evolution, it is a more convenience way of facing the market rather than going back to the old one which offers less service and just a bit of the cost – benefit factor.

Before going on the part of consumers and prosumers, let’s first discuss the evolution of the market. At the present time, market had been changed, basically in the means of trading, paying, and etc. at the late century, the market is all about trading with the use of barter to exchange for the good, and as the evolutions come, barter had been deleted and the start of paying by coins (silver or gold) had been a way (as far as I could remember in my elementary lessons ), and that practice had continued until now with the use of money to pay for the goods. Formal marketing as we all know it today had began in the mid of 1970's with the birth of the marketing orientation. By funding up capitals to start a business in the market (in early days), business at that point was merely concerned with their construction, manufacturing, production, and efficiency issues to satisfy their costumers. Years had past and several changes in the market had been granted. The improvement of such services had changed to fit the changing needs and lifestyles of the consumers. Because of this a new stage for the development of the market had arrived, where in the main input is that the business's prime concern was to sell what it produced. The main plan of this is to secure the production rate of the business. They must specialize on something to optimize the categorization and quality of the products they sell. And then later, a new trend in the business marketing had emerged as businesses came to recognize that consumer’s needs and wants drove the whole process. They should dwell or base more on the costumers’ concern and value it. And this is the start were marketing research became popular and important and also the time were marketing competitions had became large and tough. Businesses realized it was futile putting a lot of production and sales effort into products that people did not want. And this was the start were the convergence or the technology had taken place in the field of marketing. They believe that the technology is available today to market to people on an individual basis. They had felt that it is no longer essential to think in broad comprehensive terms like market segments or target markets. The behavior of the market now most rely on the consumers or rather the prosumers, they had stop the believe of giving the people the overall result, but instead they had started a new approach which dwells more on having the products being personalize to achieve a higher satisfactory. The behavior of the said costumers had changed for they themselves are willing to participate in that certain evolution for they had found it better. The coin has been tossed and is now flipped, having them as the ruler of the market and the producers as the servant of their own game. Interesting and effective, that’s all I could say, for they had attracted huge percentage of the costumers by making that big innovation. Could it be possible for a new trend to enter the market and dominate it as what the present market form does?

Death of consumers and the rise of prosumers…

In the later part of marketing, the costumers are rather termed as consumers. Relating it to science, consumers are the one who consumes (considered by its name) the producers, these consumers is a part of the food chain, wherein several cycles where form and being studied. An example of these consumer and producer is a grass and a goat, on how the goat seeks for a living grass to consume it for the mean of survival. Going back to the topic, these consumers in the food chain are also related or have the same meaning on the consumers of the market, for they are the one who consumes the products being produced by the producers and helps the market grows to offer much more several items and services. The only thing that separates this two scenarios are the part of having the consumers as the predators who hunts for prey to survive the nature and the part of having the consumers as the buyers who buys the product and uses the services of businesses to have convenience and some are for savings. Consumers by their nature and behavior, they bought things over the market by simply picking and choosing the items they want, which takes lesser interaction between the market itself and the consumers of the market who takes the products and services. With these, it has been coined that the market had been ruling against the people or (much appropriate) the consumers, for they are the one who dictates the products and the consumers are just the ones who consume them. Where is the sense of having consumers’ rights? As the population of the people around the world changes every day, until now where it comes to billions of them, the demand for the supplies and services in the market increases, the behavior of these consumers had also been changed because of their population and distinct personalities, behavior occurs either for the individual, or in the context of a group (e.g., friends influence what kinds of clothes a person wears) or an organization (people on the job make decisions as to which products the firm should use). Consumer behavior involves the use and disposal of products, the kind and quality of the product as well as the study of how they are purchased. Products use is often of great interest to the marketer, because this may influence how a product is best positioned or how we can encourage increased consumption. Since many environmental problems result from product disposal (for example: motor oil being sent into sewage systems to save the recycling fee, or garbage piling up at landfills and scraps on the junkyard) this is also an area of interest. Prosumers has their distinct behavior which demands more and more, and for this they were considered too annoying and crying for better services which could handle all of them and could give them a lot more satisfaction of the payment they had been giving. For these matters, the market where oblige to find a way to offer these crying costumers what they want, basing on what they yell, what they do, considering their personalities and needs. Thus the evolution of the market together with the technology and the consumers within its scope had changed to a better one, which considers the consumers designs, wants and desires. Internet technology is totally re-defining how businesses are being modeled and how business strategies are being implemented. The excesses left behind by this large rate of innovation however are small businesses and entrepreneurs who are not equipped and unwilling to grip on the new technologies, mainly attributed to the fear of the unknown. Technopreneurs has provided the latest information on new, emerging Internet technology trends, sifting the hype from business reality. You will get the inside track on all things Internet technology that will impact your business tremendously. Business and technology are almost always entwined. The evolution of technology had led to the evolution of business. The one who spots technological trends and learns to use it, gains an upper hand over their competition. Because Technopreneur makes it a point to stay ahead of the game, you will receive the freshest, most relevant hindsight ahead of time. This will save you time, which you would better spend at what you already do best at – making money, the people involved in the market nowadays had been using the internet as the medium for shopping. Despite from being demanding, this new form of market users are intellectual and are technologically knowledgeable. Then these consumers where termed as the prosumers, for in this evolution the costumers somehow they had started it. This is now where the death of consumers had begun, for they had been replaced along with their behaviors, style and trends with a new one which fits the form of the growing society and fast changing technology. A good thing about this market is it considers having a lot of interaction between the business and the costumer, to ensure what they really like, desire and want, for them to be satisfied in short. To have a clarity and purity on what these prosumers are really about and what are they, on how they had been evolved and been described, here is a meaning from the Wikipedia - Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: (and several people among the internet had been discussing and debating about it, but for me it is about one thing, innovation and development to change our behavior, our lifestyle and probably the world), the business sector sees the prosumer (professional–consumer) as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer (producer–consumer) as having greater independence from the mainstream economy. It can also be thought of as converse to the consumer with a passive role, denoting an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process. More recently, in the mental health field, the word "'prosumer'" has come to mean "consumer/provider," also known as a "peer provider," such as a peer support specialist or other mental health consumer who also provides peer support mental health services (background on peer-run mental health services). The word "Prosumerise" has been coined by Widality to represent the merging of the IT and mobility requirements of the prosumer, consumer, and enterprise. Prosumer as professional consumers which is all about the marketing and marketing segments; prosumer as the producer consumers which are about the independence of the consumers from the economy. Combining this, we could have a result of having these prosumers as the one involved in the market which has the independence of having what they desire and love. They completely have the power over the market, for they are the one who dictates what to do and what they would like to have. As the trend of conference expands lots of marketing ideas and techniques had been generated to deliver company products where in it is one way of calling the attention of the costumers or consumers. They had been widely using the technology to commercialize their products through using the internet as the main medium or other broadcasting tools and strategies. As the said convergence had changed, the people’s quality of life style and behaviors or their way of facing the market had evolved. People nowadays are much more called prosumers than consumers. There is what they state as the death or consumers and the rising of prosumers. In most cases on the market, people or the clients are the one who dictates the result (outcome) of the product. They make changes on specific products to personalize it and make it their original stuffs. Now this is still a way of engaging through costumer’s right? Giving them what they exactly want and need. It is rather much more interesting than having those readymade products, which you cannot manipulate the designs and features of it. And all of these make up what they call as prosumers. The involvement of technology within the market had really been putted up something fascinating for the prosumers and the business. It had opened several ways to come through the clients and make a deal with them. However, to reach a high degree of customization, consumers would have to take part in the production process especially in specifying design requirements. In a sense, this is merely an extension or broadening of the kind of relationship that many affluent clients have had with professionals like architects for many decades. Prosumers are considered as elite type of customers who have their own mind to think for specific fashioned styles which fits there need, wants and personalities. Prosumers would have rather spend their time on stressing what they want, that’s why they were called as professional consumers. With customization focused on leisure pursuits, this has been largely supplanted by a second pair of blurring roles: that of the professional and consumer. In particular, hobbyists have become ever-more demanding in the pursuits of their hobbies, often rising above the level of dilettante to the point of commanding skills equal to that of professionals. Pursuing on what they really want and need, these professional consumers would request a thing to satisfy their needs and demands.

Prosumers versus Consumers…

Prosumers versus consumers. What are their differences? This section was covered at the paragraph of the death of consumers and the rise of consumers. I had stated there their descriptions and differences. But again, in the era that the market has the control over the people, they termed the costumers as consumers who consume their products. And at the time of the convergence, where in the technology have merged with the market processes, peoples’ demands had grown and in this specific period they had been taking the control over the market and hence they were called the prosumers. Prosumers take the part of being participative in the field of marketing as the user or consumer of the products and services. These prosumers are more interactive. They demand for what they want and need to the producers for the market to produce it. Prosumers are veteran form of consumers who deal and interact with the market for services, unlike the consumers who used to buy or consume the goods and services in the market without any demand or suggestions, prosumers are more skillful that’s why they were termed as professional consumers.

The evolution of the market from having its simple form to its complex and interesting form had been a great change that affected the quality of services and had largely contributed for the change of the world. The behavior and lifestyle of the people from being a consumer to a higher structure of being a prosumer had increased the quality of life. The start of having so called prosumers which emphasizes the meaning of giving the clients the trend to apply modifications, enhancements or requests on the purchasing product. Through the influence and behavior of the market prosumers, they had been changing the structure and scope of the market in a large percentage every now and then. Who knows, the evolution still continuous and there might be a more dominant form of market users (the producers and consumers to prosumers). Several concepts are still up to be discovered, but the thing is, is it as good as the other one? Be waiting for the next evolution of these market professionals.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer
http://techcrunch.com/2007/06/15/the-rise-of-the-prosumer/
http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/
http://technopreneur.wordpress.com/about/

The Convergence

Techno2 Assignment 4: Identify and discuss Trends and Opportunities in convergence.


Several changes had been done after some developments. The lifestyle of the people, and even the marketing ways had evolved to a more efficient one. Markets several centuries had past are merely ordinary shops, providing people readymade materials and some choices to choose from. And think over this, will it always be satisfying for the costumers to have readymade products which are not changeable according to what they really like? Maybe sometimes, for it offers variety of products to choose from when their confused on thinking for a better one. As developments occurred, markets now are well-organized and competent, giving people the opportunity to create and match their own fashion. Thus, making them satisfy for they could just request on how things will look like. One of the best innovations in the world as the technology enters the field of marketing.

Had you ever tried having some personalized stuffs? Maybe several of us do, now are you satisfied with the result? Basically it is, for it is your design; your way and fashion; your creation. Just disregard the fact of having an ugly design which came up as unsatisfactory for your part. It is really fascinating to see your design come to life and make use of it. Though I myself is not an artist or rather a good designer, but making my desired or preferred things in reality and seeing the uniqueness of them is really worthy.
This article is about Convergence, its trends and opportunities, seeing the advantages of it and maybe some of its disadvantages; the evolution of the market as the technology collides through it. Convergence as what we had discussed on the previous meeting is the union of the old fashioned market with the advance technology. With this, they had optimized their services; offering and giving or ensuring clients the guarantee for more satisfaction. This had opened new businesses, new opportunities, new trends and new lifestyles for the people. It had totally made a great change trough out the world. As we all know, nowadays technology had been widely used for several purposes (it may be personal or job purposes). This had opened a chance for the entrepreneurs to involve technology on their businesses, having a different technology to cater clients’ needs and affection, enhancing their products through this, thus gaining their edges against their competitors.

As the trend of conference expands lots of marketing ideas and techniques had been generated to deliver company products where in it is one way of calling the attention of the costumers or consumers. They had been widely using the technology to endorse their products via the internet or other broadcasting tools and strategies. As the said convergence had developed, the people’s quality of life style or their way of facing the market had evolved. People nowadays are much more called prosumers than consumers. There is what they state as the death or consumers and the rising of prosumers. In most cases on the market, people or the clients are the one who dictates the result (outcome) of the product. They make changes on specific products to personalize it and make it their original stuffs. Now this is still a way of engaging through costumer’s right? Giving them what they exactly want and need. It is rather much more interesting than having those readymade products, which you cannot manipulate the designs and features of it. And all of these make up what they call as prosumers. The involvement of technology within the market had really been putted up something fascinating for the prosumers and the business. It had opened several ways to come through the clients and make a deal with them.

New services, new technologies, new market structures, new business models, and less stringent regulations. Convergence has brought change not only in the way we live, but also in the way we think and the way we act on our lifestyles. Since the trend of convergence had been rapidly evolving, lots of businesses had been starting to run giving many individuals the chance to take some benefits (such as: to land a job, to generate their own business, to make their own adventures or explore and etc.). Therefore, this convergence had catered several opportunities to many individuals. Let’s pin point some of the convergence field. Through the internet, people had started to create their own businesses, advertising their businesses or even in simple blogging or making their pages (which are paid via the ads). With this as the medium, they had found an easy way to earn money. Job opportunities had been widely expressed via the internet, you just have to take advantage of it, grab it and put some effort to it. So let’s express it like this, people had been surfing the internet almost two (2) – three (3) hours a day. At the start, only several individuals had been using these as a medium of communications or anything else, but it had rapidly boosted its user as the time passes by making it up to millions of specified users or individuals. They are so vulnerable on the things that are on the net. You could put up a topic on your page (just for an example) and add ads to it, arrange it, have a thorough research on it to make the description and content clear and understandable and make it more presentable. So here is my point, over these millions of users over the internet who surfs for about an hour a day perhaps, you could find even a hundred of them who shares the same interest as you are. As they surf, they would come to visit your page and have a little fun and enjoyment reading your posted topics. So you can earn some penny by doing this. Add all those hundreds of users who shares your interest, make them satisfied on the information you created and they will surely come back to visit your page again. Another example is the online shopping, through the convergence, people had preferred to stay on their houses, shop along the internet and make use of the provided technology. For example you are on the business of padlocks (it could be a key and lock, combination padlocks or etc.) wherein several people wanted to have them to ensure the protection and security of their assets or belongings. They would surely surf the net and search for an online shop that caters the business. Let’s say about thousands of that users wanted to have some of your products, they would surely drop by your business and make some orders. Which is as you can see, is a win – win basis or situation. Both the costumer and the vendor takes the good side of it where in the vendor had gain because of the product sold and the costumer had purchased the said product with an ease (putting away the hassle of going outside searching for hardware manually which results in a stressed body and a feet full of dusts). Hence you as the vendor had been granted the opportunity to earn money through the use of the technology and via the internet.

To discuss the advantages of convergence over the old fashioned one, here is some of it on a list:

• Convenience – let’s put again the online shop as an example for this. Convenience simply because it is less hassle. Clients or prosumers rather may surf through the internet, finding for what they want and purchase them. Less effort, in a much more service. Skipping the idea of going outside to search and canvas for a product. Another example of this is some specific products, which had evolved into a convenient one which are handy or instant, wherein people would surely prefer them than having the odd way.s
• Saving – for the clients’ side: time is a deal here, as what they had been always saying, “Time is gold”. Maximize your time and save more money, that’s the thing! Commonly, people would waste their time in shops, but now they could save it through proper use of technology. For the company’s side: having fewer workers to be paid, for they would surely need some who will maintain the site and the business.
• Security – lots of tragedy might happen as you where roaming on the street, let’s say a car accident, a thief might stole the purchased product or some burglar businesses, through using the online shops you could easily avoid these plus they will provide you the security you would surely like such as; confidentiality, avoiding those said tragedies and etc.. Although things like eavesdropping or theft might be present, but just secure your information at any cases.
• Accessibility – this came after convenience, to avoid web traffics clients on the shop have intervals in purchasing items but to sure you that it is not as time consuming compared on waiting for your turn on the market to bought items over the cashier. One of the conveniences the technology could offer among us is the accessibility of these shops which. And note that accessibility is also a component of saving – time saver.
• Income – for businesses, they would certainly grow their income rates after applying such changes.

To interpret or discuss further, here is a topic about the new trend of business modeling and technopreneurs, which had caught my attention while searching for an idea: Internet technology is totally re-defining how businesses are being modeled and how business strategies are being implemented. The residues left behind by this rapid rate of advancement however are small businesses and entrepreneurs who are not equipped and unwilling to embrace new technologies, mainly attributed to the fear of the unknown. Technopreneurs has provided the latest information on new, emerging Internet technology trends, sifting the hype from business reality. You will get the inside track on all things Internet technology that will impact your business tremendously. Business and technology are almost always entwined. Evolution of technology inadvertently leads to evolution in business. The one who spots technological trends and learns to use it, gains an upper hand over their competition. Because Technopreneur makes it a point to stay ahead of the game, you will receive the freshest, most relevant hindsight ahead of time. This will save you time, which you would better spend at what you already do best at – making money. Technopreneur is your blog, so make the best use of it by posting your comments or thoughts, exchanging ideas and airing your doubts. And by the way, to read the whole topic, here is the link of the page 

http://technopreneur.wordpress.com/about/ .

The next thing is, is there a disadvantage about the evolution of the marketing lifestyle? Is there a disadvantage over these convergences? I had been searching but failed to found something, but had generated this idea: since these convergences had simplified some of the things to help people change their lives, having too much of it would result on laziness… they would much prefer having these shortcuts than being stressed. How would it all end up? Hence, making balance would do the measurements. Sometimes being neutral is a good way of exercising an individual’s creativeness, so don’t rely too much on these technologies because old ways had just evolved and had never been replaced. They had been proven through the years, and the basis of all what we got today.

To summarize it, convergence on the marketing processes or the merging of marketing ways (applying the technology through marketing strategies to enhance or develop the way of engaging to the clients) and the technology had change the world, had made several changes over our lifestyles and also, had opened some opportunities to be grabbed. The start of having so called prosumers which emphasizes the meaning of giving the clients the trend to apply modifications, enhancements or requests on the purchasing products (to ensure a satisfaction guaranteed). Having numerous of advantages, we could conclude that the said convergence is really successful, and as the technology arises, people would grasp on the upcoming changes over the developments.

Make Meaning by Guy Kawasaki

Techno2 Assignment 3: Your reflection/learnings/thought on the video clip of Guy Kawasaki: MAKE Meaning

Nowadays, several businesses had been generating which conducts several services for the people. Starting from small enterprises to large scale enterprises, where in (SME) small – medium enterprise had the most numbers in terms of population. These businesses have their guidelines, goals, and objectives in creating their businesses. Some of these businesses are intended basically to earn a living and create their own better lives, and some are generated for the purpose of a great innovation. Regardless of the two, still a business could open job opportunities for those needy ones, but the thing is until when could that certain business survive the wrath of the growing competition? And for that simple matter I could suggest that better think more than twice in each milestone you take.

The evolution of the technology is indeed too progressive; a massive part of developments today are most consisting of the technological developments. We could merely maximize the concept of developing it by simply aiming for the good of the others and not ourselves. To change the world; make it a better place; show a valuable meaning in all aspects; and sustain a better life for the people.

Guy Kawasaki, a known venture capitalist had shared some talks regarding the concept of an ideal nature of the desired business, emphasizing the deal of making meaning on your company.

To begin with, we were presented by a video of Guy Kawasaki entitled “The Art of the Start”, this video last for just (2) two minutes. Just two minutes of your life, but could even make a whole change out on the remaining ones. His practical lesson was about having or making meaning as the center of your desired business, which states that the business must be founded to change the world, to make the world a better place, to make meaning and make difference. Clearly, in starting up a business, you must aim for development and not for the money that it will return. Despite of having it as you love or interest, you must also consider the fact that it has been created to make innovations and change the world to make a more interesting one. Making meaning as the center of the business could promise a big difference, not only for the company but also for the world itself. He stated that “if you make meaning you would probably make money, but if you settle out to make money you would probably not make meaning and you won’t make money.” For money always comes next after the development. Let’s put this as an example: a cell phone, generally it was created to improve the quality of communications between several people. As they had said, there is always a meaning behind anything. Behind these highly evolved phones are the improvement of technology, communications and lifestyles. By these thing, people now can communicate wherever they maybe (as long as there is a signal of course), via this, people can now have their conversations without having it mailed or having it as a fax (which takes time compared to this phone that could send texts messages over the network.) see the results of innovation?

Do you remember the story of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? As I could remember, Steve Jobs had been always up to developing something new and Bill Gates was merely after the money that will be collected out of his projects. Steve Jobs who’s always up to a large innovation had started inventing and discovering specific things which made him popular and rich (see how money will come after you when you aim for the development and making a meaning on your business?) and In contrast, Bill Gates with his superb abilities had came up to the part of having the technology, had introduced it and had taken the fame of it. The fruit of Steve Jobs work had raised the era of technology, where in computers had started it evolution, making it more powerful and designed to conduct specific tasks for the people, giving them the ease of taking the difficult chores. And now, computers had been widely used for studies, works, and other things.

People are craving for developments isn’t it? Make meaning and money will come, generally because if you make your developments, people will surely appreciate it and would surely grab the opportunity of having it. As you make your meaning and objectives in your company, you must also consider the keys of it. First is to have the increase of the quality of life, as you start generating your business, you must also consider on how it would help the people on their everyday living. It is about giving them the boost on the quality of their lives; giving them the ease out of their troubles; giving them the satisfactory on their needs. Is that what people are looking forward to? Yes it is! The next part is right a wrong. A wrong is still wrong regardless of the impact of it; it must be changed in order to see things clearly; it must be modified and prohibited to be tolerated for it to be useful as time goes by. You must find something wrong in this world, change it and be a part of its progress; to end those wrongs and change the world to a better place. For simple mistakes could lead to destruction, connecting it to the environment and business, failure to prevent and kill the mistake would lead to a chaos. In any problem there is always a solution, you must see through it, take a specific solution and make it as your own opportunity for development. And lastly is to prevent the end of something good, even if it is already settled for now, a business must still undergo to several operations and progressions to ensure that it will not come to an end. Continue the progress of the innovation and make some difference.

Head start or a perfect start is one basis of having a good business. The development and innovation of the technologies had been conquering the market selling different goods and services. Ensuring the costumers higher satisfactory rates for the item or service she or he had brought. The innovation and evolution of the technology had ensured us the quality of a better life among the people.

Anyway, who is Guy Kawasaki? (a brief introduction for Guys Kawasaki, taken from his page / blog site). He is one of the famous venture capitalists. He has been famous for his good books that give lots of meanings. Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures; it is an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start (where in we had been discussing about), Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. His books are ideal for those who had been starting businesses, for them to be inspired and to have a path to f He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1954. His family lived in a tough part of Honolulu called “Kalihi Valley”. He attended Iolani School where he graduated in 1972. Currently, he is founding partner at Garage and co-founder of Alltopollow. Anyone who likes to have the same or somehow at most of his achievements, just visit his page, here is a provided link for the benefits of the readers:
http://www.guykawasaki.com/

As we were tackling the self mastery phase of the SEED structure, I had remembered that we were task to have a unique business’s proposal. Relating it to this topic, we were task to have a unique proposal to help on the progress of the technology, for us to generate some kind of idea which would help the innovation. (I think, somehow a part of it had been intended to generate several innovations)

How to change the world and make things happen? Let break it down to pieces. To change the world you must start by improving the quality of the people’s life; and to improve the quality of life, we must start in innovating the technologies. There, we had our first and the base of all happenings. We had to start by developing our technologies; through this we can secure people the ease of almost everything. For example, through technology, all the stuffs (whether a food or a service) had become instant (instant coffee, instant noodles, and etc.). And because of this, we had been given the opportunity to stand along the development of technology without any constrains. People had started to crave for more development, for they had seen the improvements in their lifestyle which later on will result in a much more progressed environment, thus making a big change to the whole world.

Here are some of the talks that Mr. Guy Kawasaki had introduced: Innovation and product development (were in he lay out the strategic steps to create new products and services, for the starting companies to have their lead on their new standards and innovations. To aim changes for a better world) – we should not focus on the technology we already have (we could just support it in its progress to prevent it from falling apart) but instead put a big effort on those things we don’t have, to make things happen and contribute in the side of technology. Entrepreneurship (in which he provides the fundamental knowledge needed to start a new organization). Intrapreneurship (illustrates the benefits of treating every company as a startup. Were in he challenged the managers to show out their capabilities and skills). And etc. As you could notice, his books were always about the innovations and for the benefits of other and not for the money that it would pay him for his works. To have this kind of mind set is more likely to become a hero on technologies. If all managers had this kind of mind set, the technology would prosper more and more people would surely benefit on it. Isn’t it?

The competition in the field of technopreneurship had opened a path to showcase different technologies. Inventors were forced to develop specific gadgets to stay in the role and cope up to the fast changing environment. With this, in a year or later, technology will have a big boom and in each development it will undergo, people will be served with several services.

There are several technology in this country that are extremely fascinating and amazing, all of those technology is being studied to prosper it and make changes on it basing on the services that it could / would give. But despite of this, several wrongs are noticeable and should be treated properly, to make use of it and to make changes on it.
As the class has ended, we were tasked to share different ideas that we had generated out of those studies or discussion and that certain video clip. We had shared all that we had understood including the importance of giving a meaning to a business (not just in businesses but also to make meaning in all that we do, to be meaningful for short). Giving a meaning to the business is like giving a quality on the services and products that they will offer, contributing in the fast changing environment of the technology.

(To summarize it)… The main idea of this article is about making meaning on your businesses, it is like an art for a good start. Making meaning will eventually show developments and gradually make money. Making money is not the main course a business should have, for it will not generate anything besides of money. Mr. Guy Kawasaki had been stressing out that we should aim for the development of the technology, as future technopreneurs (maybe) if given a chance to be engaged in such business, we should choose the development over the fame. We should give people the chance to make themselves feeling comfortable by enhancing the trends of technology.

Technopreneur Business Idea/s

Techno2 Assignment 2: Try to walk around somewhere and discover technopreneur idea:


The part of walking somewhere:

We were tasked to have a nice walk, to go everywhere and to have a serendipity walk, were in we could appreciate all the technopreneurial business, things and problems that surrounds us. To study over these businesses and crisis and gain some knowledge about them by simply observing, resolving and criticizing them. And somehow generate an idea from all of those businesses and problems. This task is all about generating technopreneurial businesses, with a good nature and on how these businesses contributed in our young growing society.

Nowadays, our country had been filled of businesses, but they are not just businesses, they are accompanied by the usage of technologies which made them considered as technopreneurial businesses. As I had said, these are businesses with the application of technology as their medium. Several investors had been engaged in these kinds of businesses, and glad to say that with their efforts they had managed to fulfill their goals and had delivered great services to their clients. These business owners and investors had practiced their discipline, which helped them to standout in their field. Here in Davao, technopreneurial businesses had been starting to popped out since the last years, and most employees had been started to be engaged in this kind of job. Several technopreneurial businesses had been growing here; some of these businesses are those Call centers, Gadget shops, Cell phone centers, System or Units shop such as the Octagon and CD-r King. These are some of the blooming businesses around here so far (as what had observed over the several technopreneurial businesses that surrounds us). Several Businesses of this kind had been putted up in our place, even in schools you would notice/see several technopreneurial businesses, an example of these are the: Photocopy Services, Printing Services, Net Cafes, Scanning, CD Burning and Editing services. These businesses work and render their services through the use of technology. See? Even in a form of a small business, technologies are being propagated, indulged in the business and used to deliver several kinds of services. This is just only some of the proofs that technology had really helped in the growth of our society.

In order to be successful, several things (as expected) must be considered and must be applied. As what I had studied, in creating a business you should consider the thing love, you must find what you love that’s what they always say. An effective way to compete with others is by putting your interest as the core of the business. In this way, you will be inspired due to it’s what you really want. Then get serious, putting up a business is not a game to play, it is a serious matter that involves time, money and effort. It is a masterpiece that you must monitor to settle the things up. You must grow your network, do not just stay on the people that you were comfortable, but instead try to reach out and approach those people that you meet and especially those individuals that you are interested at. Grow and expand your circle, when you have lots of connections, having someone to call to is not a problem anymore. And most of all is to know your options, makeup your mind, settle first the things that you want, put them all in a sequence, organize your thoughts and plan it well; never aim for the money but instead aim for a great development for money will come after it.Some of the businesses that I had mentioned had their natures, and these natures are clearly seen based on the services that they give to the clients. Although some of these businesses are not that concrete, still they are exempted for the reason that they are just starting, and hoping as those small businesses rise are grows, several businesses will follow them (not specifically copying them, but instead by making their own versions) and would make Davao a center of the growing technology. So how do these businesses help and could contribute in the growth of our society? As these technopreneurial businesses are growing and would end up to and IT park, all those professionals (who had been fighting for their fate at somewhere out there) will have the options to stay here and focus on the progression of the city; when these businesses would bloom, several investors would be running here and putting up there investments, which literally means more money to us, and more jobs to come. And all of the good things will continue. So see how could it help our society and fellowmen?

Couple of days ago, I had been walking outside the school territories and as I had, I had found out that these businesses had a good taste of place. Perfect places to start such kind of businesses, for there are lots of students who will need their services. Going back to the years where technology is not a part of the business, only fast food chains or what they call as carenderias surrounds the school as a business which caters services to students. Now, can you even imagine the fast growth of the technology? Wherein it was applied to different kinds of businesses, and it is always involve in their all sessions and operations. I was wandering around the Victoria Plaza mall, and just witnessed several technopreneurial businesses, such as arcades, Globe (internet provider), Kodak (photo developer), and even banks had been using technologies, they were using computers and databases to generate their operations. And last Saturday, I went to the Nccc mall for some reasons, a job fare was held at there car park and at the ground floor, and I attended that event. After that event I took a little walk for my article and been wandering around the mall. I had noticed again several businesses in the mall (as expected for it was a mall, it should contain several business that resides there) besides the department store wherein clothes and foods are located, there are the technopreneurial businesses that been residing in each floor of the mall, amazing isn’t it? How the mall was merely occupied by several technopreneurial businesses? There are stores which caters several services with the use of technology. There are stores which sell machines such as desktop computers, laptops, printers and scanners, different units of phones and digital cameras. And one thing had caught my attention; they had used the event to showcase to the people their products. They had been on a sale (10 to 15% off rate) just to caught the attention of the costumers. How creative and wise isn’t it? Several customers had been going in and out of their shop, some had purchased laptops with an i3 to i5 processors, because it is for sale and they could afford it rather than the real price which is at a higher rate. These businesses could easily adjust the price of their products for the costumers, and they are not even afraid to give huge price offs. These was early discussed in our subject, that even if they had in an 80% sale price off, they would still take a credit out of it. Cool! And to add some more, there are also some techno shops I had missed. They are the Spas and beauty makeover salons which also use machines to serve their valued clients, besides the chemical they are using; they also use several machines to treat the costumers. And there is also the music shop, which basically use the technology to showcase their music. To play the different kinds of music such as: Jazz, Rock, Classic, Pop and RNB. Without these technologies, could you even make a tape or a disk play? Don’t think so. As you can see, most of these businesses are a bit common to us, the shops, the stores, the centers. I wish I could have seen even just a little business with a unique nature and way of delivering them to their valuable clients. But even if these businesses are not that unique at all, they vary in their strategic styles of serving their costumers, to make people engage with their business and earn a sale. There is they called as Incubators, this is where business ideas are being developed, funded and started. And when these businesses grow and mature, they are released off the incubator and deployed to stand on its own feet. It is a good way of helping the startups grows, and if the business does not mature in maybe exactly two years, it will be forced to stop because the idea didn’t worked well. Good thing there are these incubators to help! As you can surf through the net, you could see several pages that are willing to help startups in the field of technopreneurial businesses; their aim is to assist technopreneurs with business ideas and technology of reasonable merit by providing you with strategic resources to turn your ideas into viable businesses, to a level that is attractive to institutional investors. They provide incubations for startups, and if ever some of the readers might have some interest on it, here is the URL of the said page:

http://www.technopreneurdevelopment.net.my/cms/General.asp?whichfile=Sumbit&ProductID=20944&CatID

To Start the task of Discovering a Business Idea, here is my idea which came out of no where:

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With these informations, I had come up with an idea of why not having my own technopreneurial business which is in an internet based? All of the said businesses I had mentioned have there own places and it is hard to compete with them. I was inspired of the things I had heard during the DEVCON conference (that they are focused on cool internet progressions), I was thinking about why not try indulging in blogs or some internet stuffs.

The next thing I had come up is about an Online shop. Individual buyers had found it too hassles to go outside and seek for a certain item, and when they get there they are forced to get the priority cards for them to be entertained. Until then, they must wait for there numbers to be called and as they bought an item they must line through the cashier to pay the amount of the item. Even I myself find it too tiring, and via this online shop, they could just surf the site for the item they were looking (but in a given limited time to ensure the flow of the system), and pay it through the net (example: Paypal).

Lastly I had been on a walk and found out that several fastfood chains takes time to cook a certain viand or meal in cases that there are too many costumers and there’s nothing left in the food warmer. I had come up with an idea of making a fast cooker, with its special components it could cook a food faster than its normal time, and it could ensure the tenderness of that certain food.

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So as I was saying, technopreneurial businesses could contribute a lot to the development of our society. Their importances are:

• Employment creation – because of the growing technology and businesses, people had given their chance to be employed and have definite earnings. It is on them on how they will make use of the businesses, whether they would grab the opportunity and land a job, or to stay out in the street begging for coins.
• Local resources
• Decentralization and diversification of business
• Promotion of technology – Philippines is always delayed in terms of technology. Several gadgets are introduced to the other countries but it will come by the Philippines couple of years after (5 or more years later)! And by putting up several technopreneur ideas, we might come up being so much oriented in the evolving technology.
• Capital formation
We are discussing the Environment Mastery (a part of the SEED model) and I haven’t even introduced that. Having serendipity walks is a part of the environment mastery. Environment mastery is about generating business ideas and seeking opportunities out from his or her environment through serendipity walks, crises, and trends. There is always a business idea that can be generated in between a crisis. True! If only you are creative enough to see and resolve the problem, then you can generate one. Again let me define an entrepreneur against a technopreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who engages in a business venture and willing to take the risk in order to gain profit; any business for that matter. Technopreneur, on the other hand, is specialized into high-tech and innovative business e.g. web technologies, gadgets, medicine and automation solutions. Technopreneurship is the act on engaging into technoprenuer. A technopreneur is a person who is into innovative technology venture by enhancing or by developing new tech products and/or services. It starts from a good idea, develop this idea into an opportunity, and then commercialize it with a good business model.

An environment-mastered person could:

• Understands the industry he/she is in – in order to make it more effective, an individual must know each layers of the industry. He or she must know the specific things that are needed to be considered to commit great progress.
• Sees the opportunities, not the problems - makes use of the problems to see the opportunities despite of crisis. Making the problems as his or her source of business ideas.
• Is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation - is innovative and a good leader who could manage any situations.
• Is an organization/industry innovator and strategist – being strategic to come up with a better idea that could give a good service to its clients.

This is a young country which strives itself to rise from debts, lets not waste the time by indulging to corruptions and dishonored operations. Let’s help our nation to build its way to the top. Let be innovative and strive hard together to reach success.

Learnings on Techno1

Techno2 Assignment 1: What have you learn in Techopreneurship I?

Our elective 1 was all about being a technopreneur and knowing the world of technopreneurship. It is somehow funny to think that a guy like me without the will or interest on these things had been able to jive on it and strangely how it had opened up a new path, road or option for my career. This subject had shared unto us several lessons; lessons that had inspired us and strengthen us; had molded us to a better person with great personality; had discovered several skills due to some circumstances that forced us to show it!

It all started with a film viewing, watching someone else’s life, from his triumphs to victory and learns from all of those things and had followed with the question of how do I see my own self as a technopreneur? I entered this new world without even a pinch of knowledge about it, had watched the film and had picked up several lessons behind it. We were introduced to a man named as Steve Jobs, who has been so famous and wealthy. He had succeeded through his own ability, passion and courage. With a good career together with lots of titles, we could clearly say that he had the true abilities of being what he was right now. To abide Steve Jobs career path is a great pleasure, but that pleasure comes up with waves of challenges to overcome and endure. As what the film shows, a great leader basically will become a good technopreneur. Several characteristics or factors are needed to be a good technopreneur, some traits that Steve Jobs has are the following: Creative – he is a creative technopreneur, each design he made were based on his experiences, his passion and based on what he really loves. Hardworking – for he is committed to his job which brought him to the top all technopreneurs. Crazy but a positive tinker – for he makes decision in a unique way that even his companions couldn’t understand, he stands for what he thinks is right, and when things fall apart still he has the strength to keep on believing on his decisions. Risk taker – he takes all the risk and had treated it as a challenge, as if there’s nothing to be worried of and everything going to be alright. A good adviser – because Steve Jobs just don’t spoke out words with no valuable meanings, it should be a phrase of a sentence that someone can pick a lesson from. A good technopreneur – because he can endure all the sufferings and focus on his own job, he is not threatened on his big competitors which makes him a competitive technopreneur. An inspirational and a good leader – as what I had said lately, he is an inspirational leader for he is a good adviser and a true leader who leads and commands his employees. Being a technopreneur means to be involved in businesses, and in the world of business we could say that a little mistake could ruin everything you had, for there are lots of competitors waiting for an opening and a chance to eliminate you. Thus, we could say that it is more like “survival of the fittest” which states that “the strong shall live and the weak shall die”. Better company with in demand products to offer basically reigns and dominates. So each step to take must be properly planned to avoid messing things up. It is amazing to think that an ordinary man could flip a coin and bring the whole world into his hands by putting such an effort to all his jobs. Well, that’s life! We must strive to continue and reach our goals.

On the other hand, our technopreneurship 1 is focused on our self mastery. It was based on the SEED model. They say that it is better to know your enemies, but it is more appropriate to know our self even more, for it is our key to success. By taking several personality tests such as: IQ, EQ, ans AQ, we could know our own self, our traits, our levels, on how we respond on some things, our hates and love or likes. In addition to this, we may also refer to our character, attitude, physical appearance, social interactions, skills, intellects, and etc... I also learned that in the field of businesses, it is better to have a higher (EQ) Emotional quotient, than having a higher (IQ) Intelligence quotient. Emotional quotient or perhaps how you respond on specific things via your emotion is more important than on how you think a solution for it. Having a business basically also means to mingle with others, to gain the respect and gratitude of the clients. I myself had also taken these test and had the result of being an average at (IQ) intelligence quotient and a above average of (EQ) emotional quotient, could these really mean something? Maybe! And by the way, being a good technopreneur involves being an optimistic, as what I had mentioned “seeing things in a different way”, must see things in a different way to see the brighter side of it. Seeing happiness despite of loneliness is just like seeing a business in the middle of a big crisis. Having the personality traits test as a measurement of an individual capabilities and limitations is a good approach when making a certain decision. Decision makings such as: being involved in a business or what we termed as being a technopreneur. Perhaps they could be assuring of their own knowledge and skills to surpass and be on the top of the hierarchy on a certain field. Understanding the importance of the personality traits test, it goes somewhat like this: it helps us know our capabilities, our talents or should I call it skills. It helps us improve our own selves by giving us a ranking of the results to inform us where we really belong and to inform us what skills to improve in order to be more competitive. Personal traits test also includes the self mastery. As I said knowing your own self before taking a move is a good approach on having a certain decision. For self mastery is one of the elements needed to be a good technopreneur. Mastering your own self would help you know your limitation, that’s what I had been concluded after the discussion and researching.

Great! Being influenced by such a respectable man is really great! The efforts, will, guts, strength, all of these had make things happen for him. Now let’s skip it and go to the composer’s goal, my goals! Before the end of the semester, we were task to have our own revised version of goals. Clearing the path, putting the past behind and making a new step, that’s what it is all about. For every person has their own goals and purposes in life, own purposes which makes them unique as an individual. As mentioned, from what I had answered in that task, here are some of my new goals: To surpass all what I am in the past, to be more flexible, to strive hard without breaking, and if ever to stand up with all my guts and confidence, to continue the fight and basically to attain my goals, to put all my efforts and to aim a great success with my interest as the center of my journey. Having a purpose or objective can help you to motivate yourself. One by one, we had defined the basic parts and requirements to become a good technopreneur. Some of the keys will be discussed as this article lengthens itself.

One more thing, the commencement letter of Steve Jobs which had a lot of meanings and inspirational words. Reading this short letter is just like reading almost a whole book of values and motivation, because of its simple but great lessons. Every single word he spoke makes heavy and meaningful sentences. Meaningful in a way that it inspire students through the lessons of his words. His commencement letter has 3 phases: connecting the dots; love and lose; and all about death. Each of these phases explains his experiences, his epic failure and great come backs. He also noted the quote “You must find what you love”, finding what I really love is like making my clear path to victory. For finding what it really is would make me realize things for myself. Connecting the dots, he said, an individual must trust all his experiences, his decisions and trust himself. For later in his life, he will thank all of those things that happened, for it will all bear a fruitful success. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is a great work. Being a hard-worker is not that easy, but the fruit that it will give is surely worth it. His second story is about his love and loses; his interest is all about developing the computers and changing the world of technology. He as the founder of the Apple Company had been kicked out of his own company. If this thing would happen to any other person, surely that person will be so depressed; will get drunk all the time and some might kill themselves for having such a big lose. But still, he had proven that he really loves his field, he had stand up against his loss. He had built and founded a new company. Putting all his skills and knowledge, making his lose as a challenge as an improvement to him, he regain his title and had come back to the path he really loves. The good opportunity had smiled unto him, paying all the efforts he had invested and giving him the chance to prove himself again. What a big lesson indeed! Standing and proving the world what you have got, keeping the confidence despite of having a big failure, to start a new one and believing in your own great skills. The third phase of his story is all about death, the fear of losing all because of death. We could not escape death; no one could hide from it. All we can do is to enjoy our life, do what we think is right and give all our best shot. If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right”. Hence, live your life to the fullest! Make every single day meaningful! Do everything you have and you can do today, every little thing that you can do for you don’t know when the time you will pass. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Your time is limited; so don’t waste your life in living in someone else’s life. Hence live your own life the way you wanted it to be! Stay hungry and foolish that’s what Steve Job said at the last part of his commencement letter. Hungry for knowledge, craving for more, don’t just settle in one, but seek for more. And just remember one important thing; you have to follow what you love and to follow your heart!

At the last part of the course subject, we were tasked to have a technopreneurial business proposal, which is unique, simple and could surely give us a good head start. Funny and annoying, we had been thinking for it for couple of weeks. We had tried several ideas that we could come up, but still we were kept on rejected. Putting up all our ideas, our love or likes, and sharing the things that we hate had come up to an ambitious proposal, which had been directly rejected for the purpose of: it is not a good proposal for starters without such capitals to put on to. It is not easy to build a single unique proposal, which is simple and could give a good service! That’s all I can say. The task had given us a big challenge, to persevere and strive hard to comply the subject requirement.

Our Elective 1, (technopreneurship 1) as expected had given us some though jobs but had surely shared us couple of knowledge, which we could bring where ever and whenever we may be. Hopefully, these learnings will be applied on the near future, not just for my success but also for the success of others. And hope to learn more on the technopreseurship 2 as we continue or the SEED model, as we continue on discussing the E.E.D. That's all for now, THANKS!

Techopreneurial Business

Techno Assignment 5: Given the chance to have your own techno business, discuss it's nature and target clients.

 The world of technopreneurship is indeed so wide. There are lots of businesses that can be putted up just on being a technopreneur. It just needs a bit of imagination, being unique, risky and ambitious.Enhancing the nature of their businesses to engage in a higher level technopreneurship is a must in order to compete and stand against other competitors. Now a day, lots of technopreneurs had been competing in the field of technopreneurship. Where in each individual is granted the newest and highest technologies in their own unique ways. Having some edges could help to gain some extra advantages among these competitors.Since lots of entrepreneurs had found the rising of technology as a way of business, the evolution of technopreneurs and technopreneurial businesses had been spread out and because of that, several businesses had shared the same nature. In order to surpass the competitors, a business must have some edges to conquer the field.Creating and specifying a business idea is too much complicated. Thus it needs to be allotted a huge time for completion. And a time to be allotted to debate about certain attributes on the business features. For there are lots of things to be considered first in order to have a business.

Given a chance to own a technopreneurial business, I would still choose the concept of marketing with an extension or back end of web designing as an additional business phase. So, marketing and web designing: Those are two popular words or terms in the field of business, sound great but is so hard especially for starters. Although this business proposal is just an idea, this proposal is indeed not suitable for starters like me or “us”. I do agree with the questions and comments regarding the said business proposal last time, and for the comment that this business is too ambitious. Yes it is true, it is impossible for starters to build a business which is as high level as this one. Though this might sound so ambitious, but still, given a chance to own a technopreneurial business, I will rather stick on this idea. Yes of course! It is ambitious, it is risky, and needs a lot of money in order to generate. But let’s look on it the other way around. Having this kind of ambitious idea, there could be some ways of solving the said problems regarding on the business. It is risky; I think all businesses can’t promise a full percentage of being a risk free. Creating a business like this is as risky as it already looks. Now going to the issue of money; extending my imagination, and surpassing the state of reality, every business has its own so called investors. If given a chance to have an investor whose willing to invest a money to help me in generating the business idea, then why not? Why not give it a shot? And now the last issue that I could remember must have to be skillful; not questioning about the man power but rather on the ability on handling this kind of business. I must be skillful enough to handle it, but facing the reality, as for now I am just a student, a learner and a beginner. Maybe as time passes by as I succeed or rather if I succeed in my study and in my own field, I could learn how to manage and generate this said business. So let’s not disregard the point that I am studying, to gain more knowledge, to be a professional, to be skillful as everybody else is (hopefully), and to be competitive in the field. Marketing is the process by which companies create customer interest in goods or services. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business development. It is an integrated process through which companies build strong customer relationships and create value for their customers and for themselves.Marketing is used to identify the customer, to keep the customer, and to satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management. Several or rather people would come to us, to buy some specific technological computer stuffs that they need and they could also approach us to make some desired web pages. This business, as I think, could give a bigger chance to grow unlike other business ideas, although this kind of business idea would basically need a huge amount of capital or investments, which is some of the many reasons why this business is so hard to generate.

Desired goals of the said business idea; some of its dreamed goals is to provide some jobs on several jobless individuals, to promote the business products, to earn respect within the company, and to keep up with the competitors. This business could open some job opportunities among several jobless persons. There are lots of individuals, who are skillful enough, competitive, and talented enough, but can’t even land a good job because of the job efficiency in the country. This business could help them, by giving them the chance to have a job and earn an income. Can you imagine an island, full of several highly talented individuals but could not practice their professions and talents because of this said job opening efficiency? Their talents would go to rust and would surely degrade unless they will be given a chance to exercise it. Had imagined it? Terrible isn’t it? An awful thing to imagine and could happen if the said problem could not be resolve immediately. A business (also known as a company, enterprise, and firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods or services, or both, to consumers, businesses and governmental entities. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies. Most businesses are privately owned. A business is typically formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial returns in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. To promote the business products; expectedly, one of the business’s goals is to promote the products in order to gain some costumers and basically for the company to earn the income. And most of all to keep up with the competitors; for the business to grow it must be competitive enough to keep up with its competitors in the field of technopreneurship, as what I had said earlier, the business must have some edges to make it more unique.

If possible, all companies and businesses could upgrade and enhance their services and even their own business. Who knows? Some of this days, if I can’t able to create and generate this idea in the real life, maybe someone could and someone would, and this someone would able to excel in this field. And if the business would achieve it ultimate goal, it could upgrade into another larger scope business, giving many services as to its beloved costumers as it could and bringing several job opportunities among the individuals in the country. Isn’t it exciting and interesting? This could bring the people in the country the pleasure of having a good job, landing on a good paying job, at it could also bring or could raise the economical rate of the country.

So we are been talking about technology since the start, let me define what technology is; Purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities. Technology is generally divided into five categories (1) Tangible: blueprints, models, operating manuals, prototypes. (2) Intangible: consultancy, problem solving, and training methods. (3) High: entirely or almost entirely automated and 'intelligent' technology which manipulates ever finer matter and ever powerful forces. (4) Intermediate: semi-automated 'partially intelligent' technology that manipulates refined matter and medium level forces. (5) Low: labor intensive 'dumb' technology that manipulates only coarse or gross matter and weaker forces. At the present time, technology had been so known to peoples, even of at young ages. Nowadays, young ages had been starting using computers and other stuffs that is conquered by the technology or involved with technology. Directing you to my real point, most of the people or all individuals had known the technology so well, lots of them are using it and for sure time will come that they will come unto a business company to buy certain parts for the enhancement of their gadgets and stuffs. And for the back end of this business idea, still there are several people who want to have their own web pages for their own reasons. We could grant them what they what and what they need.

Although several companies had been excelling through this nature of business (sorry, could not site some examples of the companies, it might be confidential or something like restricted), there is also a negative side. And it is all about lose, putting up a business like this and investing a large amount for it to generate will be risky. What if it fails? What if no one is interested? Not interested in a way that, they could not trust the company or the business because it is just a starter and not so well known. Still there are things that needed to be settled to reach the top of this field. So before engaging in this field, we must know first the environment of marketing for us to have a bit information and knowledge about it, studying it would serve as our stepping stone in engaging marketing business. So what is marketing environment? The marketing environment surrounds and impacts upon the organization. So, marketing involves selling goods and services to some costumers in order to gain an income. There are three key perspectives on the marketing environment, namely the 'macro-environment,' the 'micro-environment' and the 'internal environment'. Let us define the 3 key perspectives on the marketing environment so that we could have a partial knowledge on marketing, and so we could generalize the business idea properly. The micro-environment: This environment influences the organization directly. It includes suppliers that deal directly or indirectly, consumers and customers, and other local stakeholders. Micro tends to suggest small, but this can be misleading. In this context, micro describes the relationship between firms and the driving forces that control this relationship. It is a more local relationship, and the firm may exercise a degree of influence. The macro-environment: This includes all factors that can influence and organization, but that are out of their direct control. A company does not generally influence any laws (although it is accepted that they could lobby or be part of a trade organization). It is continuously changing, and the company needs to be flexible to adapt. There may be aggressive competition and rivalry in a market. Globalization means that there is always the threat of substitute products and new entrants. The wider environment is also ever changing, and the marketer needs to compensate for changes in culture, politics, economics and technology. And the last one, the internal-environment: All factors that are internal to the organization are known as the 'internal environment'. They are generally audited by applying the 'Five Ms' which are Men, Money, Machinery, Materials and Markets. The internal environment is as important for managing change as the external. As marketers we call the process of managing internal change 'internal marketing'. Basically, you might look at marketing as the wide range of activities involved in making sure that you're continuing to meet the needs of your customers and are getting value in return. Marketing analysis includes finding out what groups of potential customers (or markets) exist, what groups of customers you prefer to serve (target markets), what their needs are, what products or services you might develop to meet their needs, how the customers might prefer to use the products and services, what your competitors are doing, what pricing you should use and how you should distribute products and services to your target markets. Various methods of market research are used to find out information about markets, target markets and their needs, competitors, etc. Marketing also includes ongoing promotions, which can include advertising, public relations, sales and customer service. So what is the concept of marketing? Concept of marketing: is a marketing philosophy, which sees the consumer or client as the central focus of all the activities of an organization because no organization can survive without the continue patronage of its consumers. This philosophy regards a genuine concern for consumer welfare (Consumer Orientation) and the adequate fulfillment of his needs (consumer satisfaction) as the most dependence paths to the realization of an organization short and long term goals. The act of marketing has undergone a metamorphosis over time. It has evolved from the production to the selling stage and to the consumer Orientation stage and indeed is evolving in some organization to the consumerism and social responsibility stage. There are sharp contrasts between the two stages. At the selling state, the emphasis is on the product, the company first makes the product, and then figures out how to sell it profitably, the orientation of the company is internal and the emphasis of the company is on the sellers need. Conversely, at the marketing stage, the emphasis is on the continuous, wants, the company first determines wants and then firm figures out how to profitably make and deliver a product to satisfy these wants. These notes are some of the things that are needed to be defined first before engaging in marketing businesses, it is proper and a must to have knowledge before engaging in something. For your knowledge and your experience will serve as one of your edges against all of your competitors.

Going to our back end, web designing. Lots of it professionals which are skillful on these field are still waiting to land on some jobs to practice their profession. This business idea could bring them what they want and in return they could give the company what they need. Though I could say that I am jumping into conclusions, but this is what I could imagine, this idea could bring several peoples back to work (which is a good sign for the country) and could give a huge return as to the income. So what is a web designing: Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that are delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, using a Web browser or other Web-enabled software . The intent of web design is to create a website—a collection of electronic documents and applications that reside on a Web server/servers. The website may include text, images, sounds and other content, and may be interactive. So clearly, pertaining on IT professionals who are talented in making web sites (and hopefully as my skills go sharp, I could be able to create my own site).

Who are the target costumers/people? The target customers are those people who are needing some parts and enhancements for their gadgets, those who are needing to buy a new hardware, those who are wanting to try new stuffs and to explore the world of technology, those who are wanting to have their own web sites or web pages for their own purposes, purposes such as: it could be a website for businesses, a website for some company and for groups, for those who wants to have a website for promoting some things that they want and etc. There are lots of possible individuals that could become a costumer of this business idea. Fascinating isn’t it?

Let us add some features on this idea, let me insert the idea of having the protection of the beloved costumers. For their protection against any violations or biases, in the business marketing, there will be warranty on each item they brought. So that the costumer could ensure the good functionality and service of the business. Putting up a business, you should ensure the rights of your costumers. They should ensure the full functionality of each items that they will be purchasing at any costs (for what they say, in the business customers are always right). And speaking of several items for purchasing, items must be affordable, should be convenient, and should be cost effective for the costumers. For them to say that the business is reliable, which means it is a level up for the name of the business company.


Now the ending of this article is near to end, and I think I had shared several components that are needed to expound or to stress out my idea, starting from the basic of marketing up to illustrating the nature of my business idea (actually not mine, should use “our idea” for it is our groups idea). Done with researching from the basics of marketing in order to gain some knowledge about it and to open a new path for those who are interested in marketing business, hopefully it had help you to generate more interesting business ideas. The business idea that we had come up is really ambitious. And knowing the field of technopreneurship, it is tricky, so a technopreneur should be able to go with the flow of this field to surpass the competitors. Therefore once again it is risky. Before ending this article, I just want to leave a quote: Those who had been successful were once become a dreamer in order to attain what they have, thus, dreamers will later be successful if they won’t give up their dreams and face the challenges. So keep dreaming! Keep striving! Keep moving, for your goal is only a step ahead to you.



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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/11/05/20-goals-for-business-social-media-use
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/technology.html
http://marketingteacher.com/lesson-store/lesson-marketing-environment.html
http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1720191-definition-marketing-concept/