Nestle Embeds Sustainability into Strategy through CSV – Creating Shared Value 193.0
Michael Porter and Mark Kramer devised an anchor concept for social innovation. The buzz I heard in January that Nestle had moved on to Creating Shared Value or CSV from corporate social responsibility (CSR) was correct but I did not get the right definition then. Ms. Susan Steinhagen of the CSV team in Nestle, in [...]
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses are starting to embed sustainability into their strategy rather than just do it as a separate project under corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are starting to do this because it is beginning to make business sense. The Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) [...]
Birdwatching – Innovative Eco Tourism Product for the Philippines 164.0
Tourism Secretary Ace Durano makes the country a birdwatching destination As part of a diversification strategy, creativity goes a long way to promote growth for the Philippines in a way that is hard for other countries to compete. Imagine birdwatching! For eco-tourism and just recently to support his diversification strategy, Sec Ace Durano also promoted [...]
Technology Innovation Strategy for Emerging Markets 156.0
Catching up and leapfrogging is hard; Improving winner industries in captured growth markets with enabler technologies easier Each country, because of its level of development, will have its own bounded innovation ecosystem that is intertwined with that of the rest of the world. The Philippines, as typical of emerging markets, does not lead in any [...]
Green Energy from the Mountains Wind and Waves 155.0
With technical innovation, North Luzon has great potential Seeing the wind farm at Bangui, Ilocos Norte, I imagined twenty, one-legged Martian machines marching as in HG Wells “The War of the Worlds.” The wind turbines are benign, though, providing 33MW of power, a fourth of Ilocos Norte’s needs. Going around and talking to people, I [...]
Zanjera as Community Resource Management 141.0
Robert Siy found lessons from a resilient Philippine model I think I have a gem in Robert Siy’s book, published in 1982 and out-of-print. This post is more a story of the sleuthing for nuggets of wisdom than of the gems themselves. I picked my second-hand copy up yesterday from Johnny Air Cargo at the [...]
Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics 121.0
For a way to manage Commons without regulation or privatization Professor Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, studied how communities managed Commons like grazing lands, pastures and similar natural resources to their advantage. As a political scientist, her theory shows that, with the right information, productive discussion and trust-based institutions, communities [...]
SALT Innovation to Recover Denuded Forests 90.0
SALT or Sloping Agricultural Land Technology is an innovation in agro-forestry developed in the 70’s to help stop erosion and rejuvenate our deforested slopes. The benefits to the country of its successful diffusion in terms of agricultural productivity and alleviating climate change effects are monumental. STI learning on agro-forestry for erosion prevention is ready to [...]
Opportunities from Changes In the Environment 2 of 2
While seemingly cataclysmic, the three expected causes of rice yield loss also present opportunities. On causes of yield loss, … (Start of Part 2 of 2) Firstly, the temperature increase of 4.8% will result into heat stress on rice thus directly reducing yield. Please imagine summer temperatures in Manila at 39C. That is the temperature, [...]
Opportunity-Seeking in Innovative Entrepreneurship – 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3. Secondly, the rise of China and India who are at the moment our customers, competitors and collaborators at the same time will drive innovation. The Philippines and ASEAN, except Singapore, are technology followers. From my experience, two technology tracks are feasible from this starting point. One track is to go for [...]
Opportunity-Seeking in Innovative Entrepreneurship – 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3. These are my imaginings from reading the Cambridge History of South East Asia, from mitochondrial DNA data from New Zealand, and my observations on physiognomy. The original Maori mother is from Taiwan while the father is from PNG. This also explains differences in typical physiognomy between Tinggians from the north and [...]
Restoring Forests in the Philippines – 2 of 2
Afforestation and curbing deforestation, one of Stern’s (Post #24) four-part framework to ease climate change, seems a great opportunity for the Philippines. Yet, it is an incredible challenge if not an impossible dream. Part II of II. For the Philippines, carbon emissions trading could lighten the task of replanting trees. It may not provide enough [...]
