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 [...]
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 [...]
Real Time Market Feedback through the Cloud 163.0
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 [...]
Shareability Also Increases Website Value 161.0
I-Marketing Guru Regnard Requedan shares the insight To increase a website’s value, it is not enough to just build in SEO or search engine optimization techniques. In this era of social media, easing a website’s shareability ought to contribute a lot to its value. From the beginning, I have designed SYNTHESiST with SEO in mind [...]
Global Innovator in Medical Education 153.0
Dr. Khryss breaks new ground in medical education Dr. Fortunato Cristobal, or Dr. Khryss as he is fondly known, is a globally recognized innovator in medical education. Like many such leaders, he is a stranger in his own land! Since 1998, his school has graduated about 30 students per year of which 80% – 90% [...]
Sign of the Times 148.0
Borders at Charing Cross Road is Closing Down Total Liquidation. Borders, a bookstore and an American import into London, is closing its branch at 120 Charing Cross Road. Is it a sign of the times that a knowledge-based business like book selling has become a victim to both the financial crisis and the migration of [...]
The Chatham House Rule at Oxford 146.0
The Rule encourages free and robust discussions At Oxford, where I am attending a symposium, I learned of the Rule: When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any [...]
New Product Development Wraps at AIM 140.0
Awesome prototypes from a two-month course Three teams showed off their final prototype projects in a contest of technical, commercial and presentation skills yesterday. They had worked through an intense two-month new product development course that Prof Matt Escobido and I team-teach at the Asian Institute of Management. The winning team had an Apple iApp [...]
Peter Senge Teaches Organizations to Learn 133.0
Systems thinking puts the world together Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, considers systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision and dialogue as the “core learning capabilities of teams.” I first read The Fifth Discipline in the 1990s as a pioneering but, I thought, standalone work on the same stream as Just-in-Time (JIT) [...]
A Nook for Books 124.0
I may have found a version of e-book reader I am ready to buy, Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Click the links at the bottom for a post and a video of its nice features. I have only two concerns that are typical with leading edge products.
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 [...]
Kathleen Eisenhardt on Theory-Building from Case Studies 107.0
Innovation pertains to new things by definition. As such, typical methods of research like statistical hypothesis testing using random samples, which data are available now and thus come from history, cannot be used without qualification. Kathleen Eisenhardt’s Building Theories from Case Study Research, 1989, Academy of Management Review, an inductive and iterative approach using cases [...]
