IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0

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 [...]

SYNTHESiST Completes Migration to Magazine Theme 214.0

Fifteen months from its first post, SYNTHESiST completed the first phase of its migration to the Magazine theme. The migration supports many purposes. The foremost is to create a rich conversation within a community of like-minded people on the domain of innovation systems and change management for emerging markets. SYNTHESiST becomes a content management system [...]

Power Plant Mall is Friendly to the Elderly and Disabled 211.0

The Lopez-owned Power Plant Mall is designed to be friendly to the vulnerable sector. Unlike the Comelec that is mandated to be likewise friendly to the vulnerable sector but cannot seem to implement uniformly, the Mall must have been designed with the sector in mind though without being marketed just as a place for the [...]

SYNTHESiST Continues to Improve Internet Visibility 192.0

Alexa rank is 494,714. SYNTHESiST is #2 on Page 1 in Google Search. Today, for the first time, SYNTHESiST broke above the 500,000 rank on Alexa from 8,600,000 when I enlisted ninety days ago. Google PageRank stays at 3/10 after thirteen months, 192 substantial posts and 6 pages on the Internet. Content still King. Blog [...]

Kindle for Mac is now FREE to Download 189.0

The best marketing response for Amazon against Apple iPad Amazon has done today exactly as I said in my January 29 post, Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space, one day after Apple launched its iPAd the best marketing response to Apple. Today, at 4:08 pm Manila time, I received an email for the [...]

SYNTHESiST gets Google Buzz Button 176.0

To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]

Highest Alexa Rank Ever Domain Ownership and Survey Updates 175.0

SYNTHESiST rises above #1 million. Surveys describe its readers. As I thought, the mathematical formula behind Alexa’s ranking quickly brought SYNTHESiST above the 1 millionth from the low 8.6 million rank when I enrolled on December 25, 2009. Today, Alexa ranks SYNTHESiST at #983,845, its highest ever. Sulit.com.ph is the highest ranked Filipino site at [...]

Google Gmail gets Social 173.0

Today Gmail gets the Buzz. The roll out is ongoing. Social media overtook email by volume of use within the past two years. Similarly, more and more people are asking their friends than searching on Google to learn about things that people ought know better. Two days ago, five out of the top twenty hottest [...]

SYNTHESiST refines White Hat Search Engine Optimization 170.0

Surprisingly, Kathleen Eisenhardt and inductive case research wins To help improve blog content, the very first principle of white hat SEO, I installed a keyword cloud plug-in at the Sidebar on the right to compare results with my tag cloud. At the footer below, the tag cloud is my own view about what is important [...]

Opportunities from Salt Replacement in Food Preparation 169.0

The scan-adapt-diffuse approach to technology acquisition. Consumers’ desire for healthier food creates opportunities for the enterprising innovator. A more sedentary lifestyle especially in the developed world and increasingly so in emerging markets makes a sodium-rich diet a high risk of cardiovascular disease. The major source of sodium in our diet is salt so that it [...]

Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space 167.0

Market leader Amazon hits back with Free! Yesterday at 0947 GMT (5:47pm Friday Manila), Amazon sent me the email at left offering a free download of Kindle for PC. Quickly, Amazon shots back across Apple’s bow. I would have taken the offer. I do buy a lot of books (like two a week). At the [...]

Igniting and Deepening Conversations at SYNTHESiST 166.0

Pages and Potpourri. IntenseDebate for a community. Our first year anniversary is on February 25, 2010. I am furiously preparing the ground for a better new year, with two more improvements – adding pages to deepen content by indenting and threading and comment collaboration. I may have found my domain of choice after almost a [...]

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