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Chapter 2 Understanding Local Networks

This document discusses strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. It defines strategic analysis as conducting research on the business environment and organization to formulate strategy. Intuitive thinking gives us the ability to know something directly without reasoning. The document outlines different analytical frameworks like SWOT, PEST, value chain analysis, and sentiment analysis used in strategic analysis. It also differentiates analytical thinking which is focused and linear from intuitive thinking which bridges conscious and unconscious minds. The goal is for learners to understand and apply strategic analysis and leverage intuitive thinking in local community networks and problem solving.

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Chapter 2 Understanding Local Networks

This document discusses strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. It defines strategic analysis as conducting research on the business environment and organization to formulate strategy. Intuitive thinking gives us the ability to know something directly without reasoning. The document outlines different analytical frameworks like SWOT, PEST, value chain analysis, and sentiment analysis used in strategic analysis. It also differentiates analytical thinking which is focused and linear from intuitive thinking which bridges conscious and unconscious minds. The goal is for learners to understand and apply strategic analysis and leverage intuitive thinking in local community networks and problem solving.

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Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century (HSS700)

Unit I
CHAPTER II: UNDERSTANDING LOCAL NETWORKS
Lesson Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:

 Define strategic analysis and intuitive thinking;


 Explain strategic analysis and intuitive thinking;
 Attain facility in strategic analysis;
 Use intuitive thinking in dealing with varied activities;
 Differentiate key components in strategic analysis and intuitive thinking; and
 Examine how the map of social networks can be used to introduce creative solutions to a
particular problem in a community using intuitive thinking.

Motivational Activity:
Write a short response about the quote:
“THE INTUITIVE MIND IS A SACRED GIFT AND THE RATIONAL MIND IS A
FAITHFUL SERVANT. WE HAVE CREATED A SOCIETY THAT HONORS THE
SERVANT AND HAS FORGOTTEN THE GIFT.”
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
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COMMUNITY NETWORKING OR LOCAL NETWORKING


 Human contacts through face to face interaction at events such as meetings and
conferences.
 To allow people to interact through the convenience of anywhere, anytime email and text
based conferencing.
 Text based online communications. 1980s

TWO FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS


 Physical Infrastructure
-the wires, computers and technologies required to establish internet connectivity.
 Social Info-Structure
-process of engaging people in purposeful applications of the physical connectivity.

FIVE MAIN MODELS OF COMMUNITY NETWORKS


1. The Free Nets (Free Wifi)
- Providing free local dialup internet access, and creating a public forum for online
discussions, to those who would otherwise go without such access.
2. The Community Website
- A community-sponsored web archive of graphical web pages, with hyperlinks to
resources from community organizations and businesses, and it made great sense.
3. Community Learning Centers/Community Technology Centers
- Physical computer lab for training community members by providing computers and
internet access to those who would otherwise have access to neither.
4. The Community Education Network
- School or college-based systems were created to specifically provide online training and
instruction regarding use of computers, internet, and other topics.
5. The Community Public Forum
- It was based primarily on supporting civic collaboration through web-based text systems,
or a combination of both web-based and older text-based systems.
What is analysis?
 The separation of the whole into the constituent parts to understand each part’s value,
kind, quantity or quality. It is about breaking an issue into its parts.
Examining the parts
According to Bensoussan and Fleisher (2013). Analysis is a multi-faceted, multi-
disciplinary combination of scientific and non-scientific processes by which an individual
interprets the data or information to provide meaningful insights.

Analytical
Implications
Framework Collection Analysis
(What does it
(Define the (What are the (What do the
mean for the
decision or facts?) facts mean?)
decision?)
purpose)
Researchers have identified a variety of common biases that can enter into the process of analysis.
These includes the following:
 Escalating Commitment.
-this is where executives commit more and more resources to a project even when they receive evidence
that it is failing. The more rational move would be cut to move your losses and run.

 Groupthink.
-this occurs when a group decision-makers (such as a senior management team) embarks on a
poorly determined course of action without thoroughly questioning the decision’s underlying
assumptions.
 Illusion of control.
-this is an individual’s tendency to overestimate his/her ability to control events.
 The prior hypothesis bias.
-individuals who have strong beliefs about the relationships between variables tend to make
decisions on the basis of these beliefs even when presented with analytical evidence that
contradicts them.
 Simplification
-this is where individuals use simple examples to make sense of not-so-simple problems.
Oversimplifying complex problems is dangerous and can mislead an organization into making
bad decisions.
 Representativeness.
-this is a bias that violates the statistical law of large numbers. Individuals often display a
tendency to generalize from small samples (such as their experience) to explain a larger
phenomenon or population.
What does it take to successfully perform analysis?
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
According to BNET, business dictionary the process of conducting research on the business
environment within which an organization operates and on the organization itself, in order to
formulate strategy.
 SWOT analysis
Is a simple but widely used tool that helps in understanding the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats involved in a projector business activity.
 PEST analysis
Is a scan of the external macro-environment in which an organization exists.
› Political factors, Economic factors, Social factors and Technological factors
 Value chain analysis
-Is based on the principle that organizations exist to create value their customers. In the
analysis, the organizations activities are divided into separate sets of activities that add
value.
There are three important considerations in evaluating the role of each activity in the value
chain.
Company mission – this influences the choice of activities an organization
undertakes.
 Industry type – the nature of the industry influences the relative importance of
activities.
 Value System – this includes the value chains of an organization’s upstream and
downstream partners in providing products to end customers.
 Sentiment analysis
-Also called as opinion mining, has been one of the most active research in natural language
processing since early 2000.
-The aim of sentiment analysis is to define automatic tools able to extract subjective
information from texts in natural language such as opinions and sentiments.
Intuitive thinking
 Is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning,
bridging the gap between the conscious and no conscious parts of our mind, and also
between instinct and reason.
Intuition –is limited where the task is complex and uncertain, where the observer lacks
experience, or the observation is distorted by biases or fixed ideas.
Analytical thinking
 It is focused, sharp, and linear, deals with one thing at a time, contains time, is
deconstructive, contains no perspective, is subject to disorientation, is brain centered, and
tends to the abstract.

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