iise workgroup presentation

8/14/2019 IISE Workgroup Presentation

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Why an InternationalInstitute on Solidarity

Economy?


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CSRSME VisionCSRSME Vision

AnAn alternative, compassionatealternative, compassionate

economyeconomy built up through solidaritybuilt up through solidarity

and cooperation by small and mediumand cooperation by small and medium

enterprises (SMEs)enterprises (SMEs) who arewho are motivatedmotivatedby the social responsibility of achievingby the social responsibility of achieving

the common goal of sustainablethe common goal of sustainable

developmentdevelopment rather than by perverserather than by perversecompetition for self-gain andcompetition for self-gain and

aggrandizement.aggrandizement.


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SolidarityEconomy

Small and MediumSmall and Medium

EnterprisesEnterprisesSocialSocial

EnterprisesEnterprisesSupply ChainSupply Chain


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4 Issues in Transforming Individuals

into Social Entrepreneurs

Issue # 1.

How do people who have been employees formost of their working lives switch from do-as-you-are-told to do-whatever-it-takes ?

How does a company create jobs

(microbusiness) in which employees canbehave like businesspersons?


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Approach to Issue #1

1. Teach your employee how to develop abusiness plan not for the company, butfor his own business project.

2. Customize the job, turn the job into abusiness.

3. Enable the employee to do theengineering on his/her own


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4. Inculcate what entrepreneurs have in

common

They offer more intellect, less materials. They add value thru their imagination.

They deliver professional services

Approach to Issue #1


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Doing it means figuring out how to ityourself. If your way works most of the time,youll get promoted.Burt Reinhardt, TurnerBroadcasting

Get rid (almost entirely) of the center; shiftresponsibility to modest size, human-scale

units. Percy Barnevik, CEO Area BrownBoveri (ABB)

Entrepreneurship in Big Companies


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ABB broke the 190,000 company into 5,000pieces each a profit center, each employingan average of about 40 people.

Each profit center is exceptionally autonomous.

Each is led by a chief and 4 associates: the headof finance, engineering, operations, andmarketing/sale.

Almost every center has its own profit & lossstatement, its own balance sheet, and its owncustomers.

Entrepreneurship in Big Companies


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Turn the small unit into real business, and theunit leaders into genuine entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurizing of every job: One hundred

percent of employees turned into businesspeople, transforming the company into anorganization/ association of businesspeople-entrepreneurs.

The logical limit of deorganization is theentrepreneur the business unit of one.

Lessons


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Issue # 2:What type of entrepreneurial economy does

the entrepreneur contribute to develop?

In an entrepreneurial economy, every position at acompany must be created from scratch, a far cry from

finding someone to fit a real job description. BillCharland, Career Development Expert.

Every persons concept of an entrepreneurial economy

is a mental image, a mental model, or a vision.- Profit oriented, me first economy

- Socially responsible economy


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Traditional MarketEconomy

Profit is supreme

The invisible handrules

Resources are scarce

People can adjust toeconomic dislocations

Free access toinformation

Socially Responsibleor Solidarity Economy

Triple bottom line Organized stakeholders

get a handle on themarket

Resources can berenewed and recycled

Learning organizationsallow people to acquirenew knowledge/skills

Stakeholders participatein market systemsdesign and application


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There is a need to strengthen Social Enterprises asthe third pillar of the economy.

Government Single Bottom Line

For Profit Company

Social Triple-Bottom-Line Enterprises


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Issue #3:What educational program is relevant totransform individuals into entrepreneurs?

1. It (education program) appeals to a higher calling BuildingShared Vision

2. It enables the individual to mobilize resources locally Fundamentals of Financial Stewardship

3. It equips the individual to build up the supply (value added)chain of his/her business Supply Chain Management

4. It inculcates both knowledge and skills on how to set up,mobilize resources for, operationalize, evaluate, and grow asmall business project Project Management


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The Social EntrepreneurshipThe Social Entrepreneurship

Discipleship ProgramDiscipleship Program

Module 1.1

Module 3

Module 2

Building

Shared Vision(for

individuals)

Fundamentalsof FinancialStewardship

SupplyChain

Management

Building Shared Vision(for enterprises)

Module 1.2

Holding Company

IT Cooperative

Shared Vision Savings& Credit Coop

ProjectManagement

Module 4


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Issue #4:What kind of learning institution is best suited

to implement the said educational program?1. Staff is mainly the core academics, well paid,independent business people, package and transmittheir materials in a variety of ways (i.e. core group

members)

2. Academic Facilitators: bring lead academics andpractitioners in dialogue with students (i.e. IISE)

3. Educational consultants: help each student to usepersonal contact with academics and books to pursuehis/her own education as effectively as possible (i.e.experts outside the core group)


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4. University is a talent bank and a library which canbe applied across space and time to serve the

individual needs of students (e.g. partner learninginstitutions with innovative learning systems likedistance learning, etc.)

5. Students are not merely chasing a degree butpursuing social enterprise both as a business and as aministry/ social mission (e.g. human resources of the 4core institutions and other partners)

Source: Beyond Universities: A New Republic of theIntellect by Douglas Hague, Oxford University


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Workshop QuestionsWorkshop Questions

1.1. What is your vision for a better Philippines?What is your vision for a better Philippines?

2.2. What is the role of IISE in realizing this vision?What is the role of IISE in realizing this vision?

3.3. What resources (attitude, time, talents [funds,What resources (attitude, time, talents [funds,

products, projects, services, patents, company])products, projects, services, patents, company])

are you willing to contribute and capable ofare you willing to contribute and capable of

contributing to enable the concerned institutioncontributing to enable the concerned institution

to effectively play its role?to effectively play its role?

4.4. Are you willing to make your resources availableAre you willing to make your resources available

starting October 1, 2009? (Capital Build Up ,starting October 1, 2009? (Capital Build Up ,Membership fee, Registration fee to SEDP)Membership fee, Registration fee to SEDP)

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