Posted by m beduya on September 6, 2011 · 2 Comments
Studying Miles’s new blog, “365 Days of Shopping … In My Own Closet,” refreshed my learnings on creativity. Miles was a former student in entrepreneurial finance. This discovery led to a Facebook conversation on creativity that I re-post below and a new friendship as the teacher becomes the student. Miles’s creativity sparkles in her blog [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Google Wallet represents the latest innovative convergence of technologies to improve convenience in electronic settlement. Electronic settlement is one of three necessary legs to complete the chain of e-commerce. The other two are (a) the marketplace where the buy-and-sell transaction takes place and (b) fulfillment that takes care of the delivery leg of what was [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A face from the past and a pioneer in software venture capital, Anne Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, gave a very insightful interview on Bloomberg yesterday after a big news headlines day in the digital world. All the big news are the result of the leading companies positioning for the product innovation battles of [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Anne Winblad, Apple, Bill Gates, Google, Larry Page, Marc Andressen, Microsoft, personal data space, product innovation, Real-time connectivity, Sergei Brin, Skype, Steve Jobs, venture capital
Posted by m beduya on April 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Implementing the right factory software information systems (ICT) enables productivity for manufacturing firms. ICT is a general purpose technology that, when applied correctly, has been proven to improve productivity. ICT in manufacturing increases productivity in three ways, first by institutionalizing business processes, second by improving coordination among factory functions, and, finally, by hard-wiring empowerment for [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Cantier, competitiveness, emerging markets, enterprise resource planning, ERP, general purpose technology, innovation, M-ERP, manufacturing execution systems, MES, productivity
Posted by m beduya on November 29, 2010 · 1 Comment
I was pleasantly surprised to see my good facebook friends, Atty. Luie Guia and Denis Du, on the front page, onscreen of my online New York Times in the box, Latest in My Network. It turns out that they have used the links button on New York Times online to recommend articles on Facebook. As [...]
Posted by m beduya on September 16, 2010 · 3 Comments
Hapinoy and MicroVenture’s Bam Aquino and Mark Ruiz are finalists for the 2010 Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award. SYNTHESiST has featured Hapinoy’s innovative approach in re-organizing the retail (sari-sari store) trade to deliver on the triple bottom lines for social entrepreneurs – profits, sustainability and equity. Beneficiaries. Thus far, approximately 10,500 [...]
Posted by m beduya on August 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning · Tagged with concurrent engineering, design thinking, ideation, product development, productivity, productivity improvement, quality function deployment, rapid prototyping, reengineering, Six Sigma, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on May 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change leaders, change management, content management system, emerging markets, innovation systems, magazine theme, product development, search engine optimization, SEO, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on May 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by m beduya on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, Facebook, Google Buzz, innovation, product development, product innovation, Social Graph, Twitter
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