Revised NU12 #11, What pisses you off at the school? - Camille A. Dela Cruz

Hi Sir,

I did not get a grade for NU 12 Week 11 - What pisses you off at AGSB. Kindly see below the new revisions. Thanks.

ENTREP S20

Mr. Jorge Saguinsin

NU 12 Week 11 - What pisses you off at AGSB? (Revised)

Camille A. Dela Cruz

What greatly pisses me off at AGSB is the cafeteria offers extremely minimal food choices. Other than the local/homegrown canteen

that offers home cooked meals, there are only four concessionaires available - The Sandwich Guy, Fruitas, Don Henderico's Pizza and Milk Tea.

Sometimes students have to walk far towards the nearest establishments like power plant mall just to satisfy normal cravings that a canteen 

should provide. 

I suggest that the school should provide more food alternatives to its students and employees after all food is what keeps the mind working and 

healthy. If not enough food is provided this can lead to the reduction of attention span and productivity of students or employees. To align the solution

to what I learned in my entrepreneurship class, I suggest that the school should tie up the opportunity with an activity that can be incorporated in the 

syllabus of the entrepreneurship or marketing class. Maybe students can come up with different food business proposals and once approved by professors,

these proposals can be implemented and executed in the cafeteria for the whole term. The cafeteria can be a training avenue for the students to test

their food business and at the same time the school is able to address the clamor of students and employees for better food choices. Moreover 

the activity will help the students develop and learn skills of what is to be an entrepreneur. A concrete example would be a class of 30 students can

be divided into six groups and the six groups will propose different kind of food ideas that they will sell and market in the cafeteria. The six groups 

should be offering various kinds of food and not similar to each other. The professor will then grade the students based on the number of products sold as

well as other indicators.  3.5

From WU! March issue - Be Brave and Be BOLD

Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

From WU! March issue | March 6, 2013

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE!

Thus screams the headline of the free, new free magazine that details many new things in Metro Manila.  It is innovative and new.  It shares the same spirit of Sentrep MBA course:  to think and try something new always.  There could be no entrepreneurship without the sense of adventure ie to try something new.

Thus, at page 5-6 WU suggests 10 things to do this month (some listed here)

l.  Visit Bridal expo on March 9 at WTTC

2.   Get food from food trucks (near Shang Makati)  latest in thing in California

3.  Check out hidden gems of Tagaytay;

4.  Food trip with Burger chronicles

5.  Meet the WU staff 

Then there are suggestions to get out of your comfort zone (page 13 -  you count;  they forgot to put page number)

l.  Learn a language,

2.  Learn an artistic language  (paint, sing, dance, )

3.  Be an action hero,

4.  Walk in the park

5.  Try to get lost in the city (take the path, road not usually taken

l. 

Former Entrep Student Thanks me for her Successful Strama Defense

 Yesterday, I got a text message from a former student in one of the AGSB satellite campuses.  She was extremely happy for she got a lot of compliments from her defense panelists and she thanked me profusely.  I was wondering why.

Did this subject train her to work hard for the strama?  Did she utilize the tools from this subject for her subject?  Or was she simply a passionate and intelligent student.  Whatever it is congratulations and God bless you for being grateful.

Another entrep student just texted and thanked me today, Dec. l, 2011 also thanking me.  Yes, she had to work hard for her business plan but she passed the strama defense without revision.  (Her panelist is known for failing the strama presentor)  I am proud of them, if indeed, the training they got from entrep class/subject disciplined them to be good business writer and strategist.  I requested them to post this at facebook and/or blogsend to me.

Thank you for your kind words.  From his blog





"Innovate or DIE" "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

The Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship and Creativity, Videoshare from Ecorner

"Innovate or DIE"

THE ART OF TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CREATIVITY
by Tina Seelig, Executive Director of Technology Ventures Ventures Program

Here is another teaching aid from Ecorner.  It is a presentation by Tina Seelig  on the subject of teaching entrepreprenership and creativity.  Many thanks to Ecorner, Kaufman Foundation and Stanford University.






"New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

Rethinking Innnovation with Leonardo da Vinci from Slideshare

"Innovation is creating value from existing resources." Innovation is the tool of entrepreneurship.

Slideshare Presentation for sharing

Rethinking Innovation With Leonardo Da Vinci By Peter Fisk

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"ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS CREATING SOMETHING FROM PRACTICALLY NOTHING"

New Ideas Must Impact Society and Economy

                                                                         

According to Peter Drucker, innovation to prosper must impact both society and economy.  Inventors and creators (creative people) often mistake that new ideas, hi tech, inventions are enough.  This is the trap that most inventors fall into and then complain about lack of government support, lack of patriotism by countrymen, etc. This is the gap to be filled in by techno-entrepreneurship.  The invention/creation must satisfy the wants and need of the customer.  The customer is the center of the creation/universe;  it is not the invention creation.

I have been together with a group of businessman, to an agricultural school in Region 3 that is largely populated by PhDs and engaged in high level agri tech research.  And yet much of their discovery and research results are within their campus wanting to be used by the farmers.

I have volunteered work on how to commercialize the inventions and that was about it-talk, a first wave of emails and that was it.

I want to recall Lee Beng's definition of entrepreneurship (from Timmons) "It is about doing something, not merely analyzing, discussing, and talking..."

"Innovation is creating value from existing resources." "Entrepreneurship is creating something from practically nothing"