Empowerment Through Startup

Business world has been improving that fast along with the improvement of sophisticated resources, mainly human capital and technology. People in the world have been involved in knowledge sharing in both formal and non-formal forum to see whether they can grab more opportunities through networking. The Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) Week 2016 has been successfully conducted from March 14th to 19th 2016, hosted by Master of Management Universitas Indonesia collaborated with Tanoto Foundation and other sponsors. Attendees of the workshop consisted of participants from 27 overseas universities that are members of GNAM such as the Yale School of Management, Hitosubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Renmin University of China School of Business, and Hong Kong University of Science and technology Business School. The theme for this year is "Local Start-up, Local Heroes". The theme tried to reveal how to actually establish startup using existing and limited resources to generate higher impact. Global Network Weeks (GNW) provides an opportunity for business school students to get involved in the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) to share knowledge and experience in solving problems of local and business. The activity consists of seminars, discussions, training, and company visit.

The theme is inspired from the trends of startup founded and began to develop in Indonesia, which in the other hand there are many startups getting out of business. Approximately there will be more digital business startup in the future. Purchasing power increases along with the rising per capita income in Indonesia affecting the development of the digital industry. The instant lifestyle in a way that most of people nowadays think that shopping online is a lot easier and faster also help the growth of this industry. In the past 3 days, the participants visited the 2016 GNW Pekanbaru, Riau to learn how the company helps local communities to grow. Companies were visited APRIL Paper and Tanoto Foundation part of the APRIL Group. People living around the site are well empowered to be more productive. Meanwhile, the company has also assisted local authorities to preserve the environment to be more sustainable in the near future. For more information please visit www.tanotofoundation.org