Trends, Network and Critical Thinking in the

21st Century Culture

Understanding Local Networks

MRS. LESLIE MONICA M. REYES

TEACHER I
 REVIEW/ MOTIVATION:
Pick, Define, Surprise!!!
The teacher will ask some
volunteers from the class who will
pick and give the definition or
explain a word that he/she had
drawn inside a box. A surprise gift
awaits to someone who can give
the correct definition or
explanation for each word/s.
 Individual Activity #1: My Network

Identify the groups/peoples

that you are a part of and
assign this on the drawing
below according closeness.
(A review on UCSP)
Individual Activity #1: My Network

ME
 Process Questions:
 Who/ what group(s) is/are the closest to
you?
 Who/ what group(s) is/are farthest from
you?
 Are some group(s) that are connected
with each other? What are they?
 What are the factors that you consider
when identifying a group’s proximity to
you?
 Linking:

What is network?
How does marriage
extend one’s
networks?
 Key Concepts
 A network is group containing people
who come into occasional contact but
who lack a sense of boundaries and
belonging (Macionis, 2012). Some
scholars claim that networks are non-
hierarchical, value-free, and structure-less
organizations, and that they are
composed of people working on similar
tasks without necessarily knowing each
other. This is illustrated by social
networking sites such as Facebook.
 Key Concepts
 A social network is a social structure
comprised of individuals joined by a
particular pattern of links or
relations. Social networks are
indicative of a person or an
organization's relations,
membership, links, and connections.
It is noteworthy that these systems
serve a role in the attainment of the
goals of society.
 Key Concepts
 Through networks serving as
media for the spread and
exchange of ideas, people get
connected, get updated, and
become aware. Furthermore,
social networks act as social
support systems that provide
people information and guidance
in times of need.
 Enrichment:

 Let the students watch the Social

Network Analysis video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=fgr_g1q2ikA)
 Defining Strategic Analysis &
Intuitive Thinking

Group Activity # 1: EXPLORE

 The class will be grouped into
five. Each group will be asked
to give some words that they
can relate to analysis, thinking
and intuition.
 Defining Strategic Analysis &
Intuitive Thinking

ANALYSIS THINKING INTUITION

 Process Questions

1. From the words you have listed,

what is analysis? Thinking?
Intuition?
2. Give a specific situation where
you apply/use analysis, thinking
and intuition.
 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

- the process of conducting

research on the business
environment within which an
organization operates and on the
organization itself, in order to
formulate strategy.’ - BNET
Business Dictionary
 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
‘… a theoretically informed understanding of
the environment in which an organization is
operating, together with an understanding of
the organization’s interaction with its
environment in order to improve
organizational efficiency and effectiveness
by increasing the organization’s capacity to
deploy and redeploy its resources
intelligently.’ - Professor Les Worrall,
Wolverhampton Business School
 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
Definitions of strategic analysis often
differ, but the following attributes are
commonly associated with it:
1. Identification and evaluation of data
relevant to strategy formulation.
2. Definition of the external and internal
environment to be analyzed.
3. A range of analytical methods that can
be employed in the analysis.
 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Examples of analytical methods

used in strategic analysis include:

•SWOT analysis
•PEST analysis
 SWOT Analysis

A SWOT analysis is a simple but

widely used tool that helps in
understanding the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and
threats involved in a project or
business activity.
 SWOT Analysis
It starts by defining the objective of the
project or business activity and identifies
the internal and external factors that are
important to achieving that objective.
Strengths and weaknesses are usually
internal to the organisation, while
opportunities and threats are usually
external. Often these are plotted on a
simple 2x2 matrix.
SWOT Analysis
 PEST Analysis
- is a scan of the external macro-
environment in which an organization
exists. It is a useful tool for understanding
the political, economic, socio-cultural and
technological environment that an
organization operates in. It can be used
for evaluating market growth or decline,
and as such the position, potential and
direction for a business.
 PEST Analysis
Political factors. These include government
regulations such as employment laws,
environmental regulations and tax policy. Other
political factors are trade restrictions and
political stability.
Economic factors. These affect the cost of
capital and purchasing power of an
organisation. Economic factors include
economic growth, interest rates, inflation and
currency exchange rates.
 PEST Analysis
Social factors. This impact on the consumer’s
need and the potential market size for an
organisation’s goods and services. Social
factors include population growth, age
demographics and attitudes towards health.
Technological factors. These influence
barriers to entry, make or buy decisions and
investment in innovation, such as automation,
investment incentives and the rate of
technological change.
 PEST and SWOT Analysis
PEST factors can be classified as
opportunities or threats in a
SWOT analysis. It is often useful
to complete a PEST analysis
before completing a SWOT
analysis.
 Intuitive Thinking
- Jung defined intuition as
"perception via the unconscious":
using sense-perception only as a
starting point, to bring forth ideas,
images, possibilities, ways out of
a blocked situation, by a process
that is mostly unconscious.
 Intuitive Thinking
- is the ability to take what you may
sense or perceive to be true and
without knowledge or evidence,
appropriately factor it in to final
decision.

- “is a quick and ready insight”---

Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
 Intuitive Decision
- making is far more than using
common sense because it involves
additional sensors to perceive and
get aware of the information from
outside. Sometimes, it referred to as
gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense,
instinct, inner voice and spiritual
guide.
 Group Activity #2:

Think of a specific community

project and complete the
following graphic organizer.
GROUP ACTIVITY # 2
 ASSESSMENT
DIRECTION: Formulate an Intuitive decision/conclusion from
the following situation: (1 0 pts.)

Case: Violet Jones is a manager at the Intestinal Distress

Tacos fast food restaurant. She has noticed that the taco shells
are disappearing at a faster rate than the sales. There are
some ways that Violet can investigate the missing taco shells.
Violet does not have the time in her business managerial
schedule to spend a long time investigating the taco shell
mystery. She is losing money daily and must fire the individual
responsible. She has relied on her intuition in the past, and it
has successfully rewarded her into management positions.
She uses patterns of behaviour, cues, and body language.
 ASSIGNMENT

Draw an editorial cartoon

explaining Strategic Analysis
and Intuitive Thinking. Use one
page of your TNC notebook for
this work.
RUBRICS