Global Home Business Network by Gertrude I Hewapathirana

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Global Home Business Network by Gertrude I
Hewapathirana

• Beyond
• Schooling

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Knowledge Leadership Model For the 21st Century
Network of home based businesses powered by
knowledge and innovative technology for
heterogeneous communities
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Goal

• Develop proactive constructive strategies and
  proceedings to implement highly innovative
  knowledge creation and knowledge sharing model
  that would bypass conventional developmental
  stages such as agricultural, pre-industrial,
  industrial, and information.
• Develop intercultural understanding among
  international communities narrowing the cultural
  gap among global communities
• Create wealth and help indigenous communities

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Stakeholders and the target population

• School leaving youths, minorities, women,
  disadvantaged groups, and economically poor yet
  talented people
• Anyone who respect intercultural values and who
  wish to build harmonious human and non-human
  networks
• Volunteers and others who are interested in
  developing close relationships with multicultural
  communities around the world and anyone who wish
  to be clients or supporters

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Factors motivated me to design this model

• Work experience in the developing world
• Lack of opportunities for poor people
• Urgent social need in developing countries
• To utilize knowledge gained from my studies

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Rational for choosing the topic

• If we do not initiate innovative strategies to
  cope with the growing information technology in
  the globalization trend, the gap between the rich
  and the poor, the majorities and minorities, the
  literates and illiterates, and women and men will
  be further widened.
• Large corporations who provided a large number of
  jobs are now downsizing their businesses due to
  unbearably escalating administrative overheads

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Organizing knowledge processing into practice
(Adopted from McElroy, p.153)
Community group formation and Facilitate
learning
Knowledge processing through social interactions
and open dialogue
Initiate and enhance Individual Learning/ integra
te technology
Outside/inside knowledge adaptation
Adopt methods for knowledge Integration and
networking
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Social Knowledge Management- networking
strategy-
Knowledge production
Knowledge integration
Social interventions
Technology interventions
Motivation-individual and group rewarding system
for sustainability
(McElroy, 2003, p.59) (modified by Gertrude, May
2004)
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Global Business Network Model
Technological innovations- home business
Home Business
Marketing network
Home Business
Advisory
Home Business
Home Business
Home Business
Knowledge innovations
Manufacturing- home business
Home Business
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Dimensions of the model(Modified by Gertrude
Adopted from McElroy, 2003, p. 183)

• Operational dimensions
• Knowledge production
• Knowledge integration
• Knowledge recognition and credibility
• Usability enhancement-continuous updates
• Validity

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Operational dimensions

• Individual learning
• Group learning
• Creating a common language through language
  translator devices and natural language fluency.
• Knowledge creation and expansion
• Knowledge sharing and upgrading

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Knowledge integration methods

• Brainstorming
• Teaching
• Searching
• Trust building through close interaction and
  dialogue
• Experimentation
• Assessment of individual achievements
• Networking to promote live discussions.
• Cultural adaptation and maintaining traditional
  cultural bonds in reality

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Knowledge recognition and credibility

• Reward system for knowledge creativity
•   Competition to encourage personal motivation
  and enthusiasm
• Create ownership feelings of the network
  within members through profit sharing system

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Who else benefit

• School leaving youths
• Unemployed people
• Minorities
• Women
• Disadvantaged groups
• Economically poor yet talented people
• Anyone who respect intercultural values
• Anyone who wish to build harmonious human and
  non-human networks

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Ethical Merits of Intercultural Social Capital
Formation
?Knowledge Creation ? Knowledge Sharing ?
Knowledge Integration ? International
Cooperation ? Cultural Understanding ? Economic
Wealth Creation ? Social Equity ? Social
Equality ? World Peace
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The End..

• Conclusion