Kasangga party list commits 1.5M pesos to UP ISSI for small biz innovation center

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UP INSTITUTE FOR SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRIES ISSUE NO. 17

Kasangga party list commits 1.5M pesos to UP ISSI for small biz innovation center where UP Diliman Chancellor Dr. Caesar A. Saloma would also be a signatory.

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asangga party list representative Teodorico T. Haresco and UP ISSI director Prof. Nestor O. Rañeses signed last Wednesday, February 8, a memorandum of agreement that would allocate 1.5 million pesos to UP ISSI for the establishment of a small business innovation center.

Professor Rañeses signed as a witness in the memorandum

The agreement authorizes ISSI to “manage the use of the funds for the implementation of the program”.

Also present during the signing at the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City was Prof. Ferdinand G. Manegdeg of the UP College of Engineering, who is also an ISSI consultant.

A week ago, Congressman Haresco announced the approval day of LEAP 2012: The National Conference on Technology Innovation, Quality and Productivity held in UP National College of Public Administration and Governance.

UP ISSI Director is new AVP for Admin

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P ISSI Director Prof. Nestor O. Rañeses is now the new Assistant Vice-president for Administration of the UP System. His new appointment was approved during the 1,277th meeting of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) held last Thursday, January 26.

Director Rañeses will hold the concurrent positions as he also serves as associate professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in the College of Engineering and as an

He has been helming ISSI since January 2010 and is the primary moving force behind the Institute’s pioneering and innovating efforts towards its mission of nurturing and advancing an entrepreneurial society.

His recent appointment is one of the three that were approved by the BOR during the meeting, the others being Dr. Juan M. Pulhin’s appointment as dean of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources at the UP Los Baños and Prof. Erlyn A. Sana’s designation as dean of the National Teachers Training Center for Health Professions at UP Manila.

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SERDEF presents research agenda at ISSI

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ERDEF president Dr. Paterno V. Viloria addresses the audience during the Foundation’s research colloquium at ISSI.

UP ISSI’s major private sector partner the Small Enterprises Research and Development Foundation (SERDEF) presented its research agenda for the year during its research colloquium held last Wednesday in ISSI. SERDEF research and information committee member Malou Lopez, who is also a faculty member of the UP College of Business Administration, presented one of the ongoing major research projects of the Foundation.

Project Minerva or “An Assessment of Product Strategies of Selected Micro and Small Entrepreneurs in the Philippines” is an ongoing study that will probe on the unique product development practices and needs for assistance of micro and small entrepreneurs.

Another ongoing project presented during the colloquium was “Channeling Remittances for Enterprise Development” (CRED), an action research that proceeded from the earlier research study entitled “Channeling Remittances for Development: A Study Towards Creating Model Mechanisms.”

mechanisms directing OFW remittances to more productive and sustainable use The second, ongoing study is now laying in place the entrepreneurship advocacy campaigns, enterprise training programs, capacity-building of service providers, and and areas: abaca, rubber, muscovado, rice and livestock industries in Agusan del Sur, Antique, and Masbate, respectively.

Meanwhile, SERDEF research and information committee chair Dr. Herminia R. Fajardo briefed the forum on other research and information projects of the committee. In the pipeline are a module writing project on improving the teaching enterprising society by teaching entrepreneurship values and concepts at the preschool level, and a workshop on research proposal preparation for members of the Entrepreneur Educators Association of the Philippines.

In the conceptualization stage is a baseline study of micro, small and medium enterprises and an impact study of micro-credit programs.

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Dietitian talks about wellbeing,

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uth Agnes Manalo, a dietitian and nutritionist at the University Health Service (UHS) of UP Diliman, talked about proper nutrition in the workplace in a short seminar held last Friday, January 27.

According to Manalo, the workplace is where employees spend a third of their day or half of their waking hours and is therefore “a suitable place for health intervention”. A balance diet and adequate exercise are necessary whether the person is in the workplace or elsewhere.

While stressing that “there is no good nor bad food” she also warned that everything must be eaten in moderation. She emphasized the advantages of having an annual physical checkup, of eating fruits and vegetables, of drinking 12 glasses of water every day, and of exercising for even just 30 minutes a day.

Nutrition in the Workplace...and After Work” was a collaboration of ISSI’s occupational safety and health (OSH) committee, its human resource and organizational development department, and the of activities lined up for the year

by OSH for the health and safety program of ISSI employees.

To illustrate some exercise moves Manalo demonstrated some strength exercises recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and stretches from the Mayo Clinic, a volunteer medical group specializing The seminar titled “The Proper

Staff recognized in post-conference meet S

ervice excellence is one of UP ISSI’s core values.

Consistent with this core value, six staff members were recently given special recognition for their performance and contributions to various activities of the Institute. They were: Teresita Santos, most valuable person as the 2011 Managers Course (MC) program manager “for trailblazing the formal graduation ceremony of the 95th MC that sets a new standard for the closing program of succeeding MCs”.

Ian de Vera and Bernie Villaluna, “for persistently architecting and continually improving the design and contents of the UPISSI website”.

The committee deemed it opportune to hold the seminar this January to give the staff a renewed attention to their wellbeing and improve their eating habits to keep themselves healthy for the rest of the year.

The committee is eyeing another event in February, this time to promote a healthy heart.

Tess Santos receives a recognition as most valuable person from UP ISSI director Prof. Nestor O. Rañeses. Also in the picture is Engr. Dong Cubillas, head of the TCPEED Department.

Francis Sune, as the researcher, writer, presenter of the Industrial Guarantee and Loan Fund (IGLF) Capability Enhancement Seminars (CES) for small and medium and Solutions Interaction (BUSISI) forum held at the Institute last January 20.

Kristine Joyce Alege and Bernadette Christine Escoto as conference manager and assistant conference manager, respectively, during the National Conference on Technology Innovation, Quality, and productivity for SMEs: Leading

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Training Schedule for April 2012 Title

Description

Target Participants

17th PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT (PRODMAN)

Provides participants with the tools and techniques

Owners and managers of small businesses, production managers, and supervisors of small and medium enterprises, as well as (6 Saturdays) would-be entrepreneurs P9,000

40th PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION (PES)

Develops interpersonal, planning Supervisors and would-be supervisors from and other supervisory skills public and private companies among those holding or about to (4 Saturdays) assume supervisory positions P7,000 and enable them to improve productivity and morale in the organization

51st COMPREHENSIVE COURSE ON INSTRUMENTATION AND PROCESS CONTROL (CCIPC)

Enables participants to design, implement and maintain process control systems; and understand and control process parameters

29th ACCOUNTING FOR NONACCOUNTANTS (AfNA) 4th SPREADSHEET ACCOUNTING WORKSHOP (SAW)

productivity in production operations

Schedule/ Participation Fee

Mechanical, electrical, electronics, or chemical engineers; instructors of technical schools and industrial technicians

(6 Saturdays) P9,500

and liquid level Enables participants with no accounting background to understand and apply the principles, basic tools and techniques of the accounting process

All those interested to know more about the April 16 - 20 accounting process especially SME entrepreneurs and their staff (Monday to Friday) P7,500

Provides participants with an understanding of the different commands and programming functions of a spreadsheet to set up accounting records which

All those interested to know more about spreadsheet accounting especially SME entrepreneurs and their staff; previous AfNA participants with no or little background in spreadsheet application

April 26 - 27 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Thursday - Friday) P3,500

statement and ratios

Staff News

Through Technology, Enabling Innovations, Advancing Quality Standards, Promoting Productivity Growth (LEAP) 2012 Conference.

Prof. Nestor O. RaĂąeses during a special gathering of all the staff held last February 6, a few days after LEAP 2012.

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