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Productivity Can Power Poor Countries to Developed Status 244.0
August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today.” William Lewis, Founding Director of McKinsey Global Institute, contends in McKinsey’s book, The Power of Productivity, (2004 University of Chicago), that “the key to improving economic conditions in poor countries is increasing productivity through intense fair competition and protecting consumer rights.” This post is SYNTHESiST’s sixth recent entry on productivity improvement as object of innovation and addresses a similar issue on causes of differences... [Read the full story]
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High Productivity Allows Growth and Equity at the Same Time 243.0
August 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that in economies where trade is a small component of GDP as in the Philippines, the main determinant of competitiveness is domestic productivity. And, in my view, addressing development policy via domestic productivity at the industry or firm level, and not with blunt macro-economic tools like foreign exchange manipulation as economist Claixto Chikiamco in a recent Businessworld column suggests, is the best way to achieve improvements without unintended consequences. With public policies incentivizing productivity improvements... [Read the full story]
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Mobile Apps Innovation is Alive and Well in the Philippines 232.0
July 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Innovation is done by people and for people. When young people innovate and compete in the newest technology for mobile phone applications where the Philippines is at the leading edge in the world, I can only feel optimistic that technical progress is alive and well in the country. The souvenir photo above shows the contesting teams and judges; obviously, one can tell who is which from the picture. I was invited to be one of four judges at the MobileXtreme, the BIG APPS Competition, today. There were four finalists whose mobile application entries “were able to operate under the emulator”... [Read the full story]
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IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0
August 19, 2010 · Comments Off
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products, evolve from new insights found in social science research and in empirical practice. IDEO’s Design Thinking is one such clear and late stage innovation in the business’s search for continuous productivity improvement. Design Thinking’s success and arrival in the Philippines is evidenced by entry into local management lingo of its two core concepts of ideation and rapid prototyping. These I have posted in SYNTHESiST before and will discuss further below. As I noted in the previous post on Six... [Read the full story]
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Frederick Taylor Engineers Change for the Better Way 236.0
July 26, 2010 · 3 Comments
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1915) is considered the father of scientific management and first management consultant. He pioneered methods engineering and was the first to analyze work in detail and set them up as rational operations for efficiency. His innovative methods made workers in the West and Japan much wealthier than workers under Soviet-style communism through 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the wealth created from his management methods, the Unions in the West, worker organizations formed as countervailing force to big business, bargained for their share of the... [Read the full story]
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IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0
August 19, 2010 · Comments Off
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products, evolve from new insights found in social science research and in empirical practice. IDEO’s Design Thinking is one such clear and late stage innovation in the business’s search for continuous productivity improvement. Design Thinking’s success and arrival in the Philippines is evidenced by entry into local management lingo of its two core concepts of ideation and rapid prototyping. These I have posted in SYNTHESiST before and will discuss further below. As I noted in the previous post on Six... [Read the full story]
3 Value Capture
High Productivity Allows Growth and Equity at the Same Time 243.0
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that in economies where trade is a small component of GDP as in the Philippines, the main determinant of competitiveness is domestic productivity. And, in my view, addressing development policy via domestic productivity at the industry or...
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Amando Tetangco and the Bangko Sentral Innovate on Inflation 235.0
Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. and the Bangko Sentral have adapted a great innovation for the Philippines – inflation targeting. I say adapted because inflation targeting is typically applied in industrial nations and not an emerging market like the Philippines. The adaptation is in setting a medium-term...
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Fiscal Challenges to Pres Aquino for a Stable Innovator Peso 230.0
From news reports, the new Aquino Cabinet spent the whole day, yesterday, checking on the veracity of the Arroyo economic statistics suspecting that the numbers to have been embellished to show better than real Arroyo performance. This seemingly unseemly activity from the new administration to the last is necessary...
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Apple Growth Derives from Planned Product Obsolescence 222.0
As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of...
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Mobile Apps Innovation is Alive and Well in the Philippines 232.0
Innovation is done by people and for people. When young people innovate and compete...
Ventner Builds First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacteria Cell 215.0
Craig Ventner, who first mapped the human genome, achieved another first. His research...
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses...
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5 Diffusion and Commercialization
IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products,...
Schumpeter Advocates Innovation as True Driver of Progress 233.0
Joseph Schumpeter introduced the concept of the entrepreneur as the true locomotive...
Hapinoy – Mark Ruiz Retails Sari Sari Happiness to Filipinos 228.0
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into...
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6 Innovation Spaces
Teaching a Platform Program on Dealer Development at AIM 238.0
For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training...
Mobile Apps Innovation is Alive and Well in the Philippines 232.0
Innovation is done by people and for people. When young people innovate and compete...
Jay Bernardo Shouts Lets Go for an Army of Entrepreneurs 231.0
Jay Bernardo, a serial entrepreneur himself, has been passionate about teaching entrepreneurship...
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1 Innovation Sources
Frederick Taylor Engineers Change for the Better Way 236.0
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1915) is considered the father of scientific...
Einstein Finds Reality in Probabilities 234.0
Albert Einstein moved physical science from the cause-and-effect and deterministic...
Looking Forward with Pres Aquino on Philippine Development 229.0
As I write this post, I am listening to President Aquino deliver his speech; indeed...
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IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products,...
Six Sigma Raises Productivity to the Effective Limit 241.0
The productivity surge in American business from 1980 through 2000 was driven by...
Incentives or Industrial Policy for Economic Growth? 240.0
William Easterly criticized his fellow economists in international financial institutions...
Looking for a Better Way – to Eat Tacos 239.0
I love the tacos at Pancake House. I take two at a time with whatever I order. Sitting...
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Books and Journals
Productivity Can Power Poor Countries to Developed Status 244.0
“The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable...
High Productivity Allows Growth and Equity at the Same Time 243.0
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that...
Six Sigma Raises Productivity to the Effective Limit 241.0
The productivity surge in American business from 1980 through 2000 was driven by...
Incentives or Industrial Policy for Economic Growth? 240.0
William Easterly criticized his fellow economists in international financial institutions...
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