Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0
Posted by admin on September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I am waiting with great anticipation for the Nobel Prize announcements come October 2010. The Prizes are given to living awardees who made a significant achievements in their respective fields. I particularly await the announcement for the Economics prize. The past awardees contributed monumental insights through their research. Following the thread of insights from the [...]
Filed under Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Amartya Sen, Elinor Ostrom, Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Robert Solow
Teaching a Platform Program on Dealer Development at AIM 238.0
Posted by admin on August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training course – a five-day customized management development program for dealer-entrepreneurs – at the Asian Institute of Management. As Program Director, I designed the course and selected the teaching staff. I am also the production manager and thus far this week [...]
Jay Bernardo Shouts Lets Go for an Army of Entrepreneurs 231.0
Posted by admin on July 4, 2010 · 2 Comments
Jay Bernardo, a serial entrepreneur himself, has been passionate about teaching entrepreneurship since I first met him sometime mid-1990s. Lets Go (an acronym for Leading Entrepreneurs Toward Seizing Global Opportunities) began as a training caseroom on entrepreneurship for JAD Manufacturing, Inc. employees, then Jay Bernardo’s flagship venture. It eventually became a training room for all [...]
Positive Deviance Finds and Enacts Change from the Ground Up 195.0
Posted by admin on April 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Pascale and Sternin develop the innovation of Positive Deviance All my professional life, as an Industrial Engineer or IE, I have been involved in change management. Typically for an IE, change starts from the mantra “there is always a better way.” Next, it leads to packaging of the change and, finally, to persuading the stakeholders [...]
Emerging Markets Symposium on Health and Healthcare at Oxford 186.0
Now I can post about it! A welcome change on a Sunday. The spacious library-lobby at the Green Tempeton College conference center welcomed me and about 40 other participants at the Emerging Markets Symposium (EMS) on Health and Healthcare held at Oxford University, England in December 2009. To encourage discussion, the participants were bound by [...]
Filed under Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Health and Medical Care, Learning and Teaching, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with change management, emerging markets, EMS, innovation, Khryss Cristobal, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Learning Curve Effect of Classic Chinese-Filipino Pricing Policy 182.0
Posted by admin on March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Entrepreneur-students of the 1st EDP at AIM help draw an insight Scholars and analysts often derive their theories after practitioners in the real world have been implementing them successfully for years. At the first ever Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), my class found a key insight linking the classic [...]
Filed under Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Learning and Teaching, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Asian Institute of Management, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, DUI-Learning, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Development Program, intensive learning, Kenneth Arrow, nathan rosenberg, National Innovation Systems, Philippines
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development – AJSTID
Posted by admin on March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I am extremely happy to share the news that I have been welcomed as one of 28 associate editors of the AJSTID. The ASJTID is a new peer-reviewed journal focused on science, technology, innovation and development in the emerging nations of Africa. A print of the Table of Contents for the issue pictured above follows.
James Miraflor – A Poem for EDSA I
Posted by admin on February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Celebrating EDSA I … Today, I wanted to write about SYNTHESiST as February 25, 2010 is its first year anniversary of publication. Instead, to celebrate EDSA I, I give way as in a retweet of sorts and invite you to visit James Miraflor’s blog, Rantings, in free verse. Find the link below. He posted the [...]
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, eise, intensive learning, Peter Senge, product development, search engine optimization, SEO, white hat, William Baumol
Igniting and Deepening Conversations at SYNTHESiST 166.0
Posted by admin on January 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Facebook, IntenseDebate, Joseph Schumpeter, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Twitter, WordPress
2010 Entrepreneurship Development Program 165.0
I am teaching in the EDP at the Asian Institute of Management on February 22 – March 5, 2010 with Professor Dickie Gonzales. The EDP is a ten-day management development program focused on the entrepreneur, whether an established or aspiring one. Ultimately, the course seeks to help each participant “learn how to manage [his] new [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with change management, competence-building, entrepreneur, Philippines
Real Time Market Feedback through the Cloud 163.0
Posted by admin on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A Keyword cloud to tell the true story behind SYNTHESiST searches I have installed the Keyword cloud plugin designed by RomeLoft on the Sidebar at right. The plugin will accumulate and print in real time the specific keywords used by visitors from search engines in finding a post in SYNTHESiST. In effect it is a [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change management, intensive learning, product development, product innovation
