Session 7 - Managing Structural Capital: The Dynamics of Knowledge

On this session in MICMGMT our group ( badette, marga, ate eva and me (of course hehehehe) was about to report about "Lessons Learned". It took us several weeks maybe two to finalize the report hampered by deadlines in work and other extra curricular things that filed up! (damn!). We are all set to report we are 2nd to report for the class, as the report was short not as we intended but because we did not comply the requirements or what sir Gerard is expecting for our report to be or should be. It lacked on how to convince him to use the Lessons Learned as a Knowledge Management process. So in short... we have to re-do our work on Christmas vacation... The Irony of these is our topic is about Lessons Learned and we did not "learned our lesson" (hehehehe). Lesson Learned should be a process that involves observation, analysis and testing to prevent flaws or mistakes. Our report actually is half baked we did the research, no problem with that, but we lacked in arranging the report with requirement given... Oh well, at least after the report that day I'm sure we learned our lesson :P.

Session 6 - Knowledge at Work:The Structural Capital

Usually to start things off with our session Sir Jerald always gives up exercises or trivia's to get the class started. With this session he gave something to solve. He drew a square on the whiteboard emphasizing on the corners by putting up dots. He asked the class " Is there anyone that can make this square twice its size by only moving two dots and re-connecting it to make a newer one?" I gladly volunteered. Because even before i like solving riddles, puzzles because it challenges the capacity of my brain to think. Just like the game chess riddles and puzzles sharpens your memory. So i get up from my seat took the white board marker and studied the drawing. For around twenty seconds (I think) i have solved the problem. I just moved the upper left hand dot placed it beneath the lower left hand dot in its diagonal (90 degree angle) then I moved the lower right hand dot and placed it on the upper right hand dots diagonal. Making a shape of a diamond with equal sides (which is still a square).

I have learned that paradigm shift is solving problems out of the box. Thinking of new solutions to problems which is not by the book but is following your gut feel or instinct on a certain problem.

Session 5 - Leadership in the New Economy

This session date in MICMGMT is the day that we have to report on some short stories. Our topic is Susie Wong. I think we did quite good on this report for it is almost self explanatory why Susie Wong was not promoted on her job although she has the credentials (very good credentials) to back it up and she does perform in her job excellently. It is because she doesn't know how to
be a team player or to work with other people. The learning on this story is that even though you are smart intellectually you can lead, sometimes you have to know how to socialize with your co-workers to get their feelings. You should have the "carisma" to be a leader. Arrogance will get you nowhere.

Another topic discussed by the other group that I liked the most is the story of "short pants". It was very hilarious, that the long pants that the character requested to be trimmed was overdone and turned the long pants to short pants. The lesson learned in this topic is that miss-communication almost all the time creates disaster. That we should be keen in giving and following directions. :p

Session 4 - Empowering Knowledge Workers

In this session we where to rate our selves and co-workers with in our given unit. I gave my self a value of easy to replace with high value added. Why do you say i gave my self this kind of rating? For starters my position in the office according to my TOR (Terms of Reference) is mostly clerical( that's what it says but the hell with it) which is very easy to replace. When I accepted this job my only interest is the "salary" although its not that lucrative but on my experience with my other works before CHED its pays more. Yes my first job is related to my course I was a Maintenance Supervisor in a Plant. (WOW! first job and already a supervisor) but the catch is it pays poorly lets just say i get more allowance when I was in school. So upon entering CHED I said just one year and I will look for another job, although I did look for other jobs, I've started to enjoy and understand our work. That made me stay this long in the Commission.i also gave may self a high value added, why? because it is not purely clerical. Yeah I admit on the first few months it was very boring photocopy, encode, photocopy. But as it goes by they learned to trust me in my decisions, I am currently with the Technical Panel for Information Technology Education, which my course is an allied field of ITE (BS ECE). So I can adopt very easily and I can share opinions from what I learned in the Industry. Now although the position did not change I am very involved in the decision making in our unit not just doing the clerical stuff, giving me a "high value".