Web2Mobile Innovation is Alive in the Philippines 138.0
Oh to be Young and Able – the Web2Mobile Story! Globe Telecom Philippines is fortunate to have young techies develop potentially lucrative mobile applications for free – well, almost free having obtained true intellectual property in exchange for OJT-time pay. J. Allen Q. Santos and Oliver Ruth A. Dag – yes! these are there names [...]
Search Engine Optimization Captures Blogs Potential Value 131.0
SYNTHESiST returns to PageRank 3/10 on Month Eight PageRank is the gold standard in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is Google’s view of a page’s importance on the Net. On its February launch, I built in ‘white hat’ SEO for SYNTHESiST – with key words stuffed in posts, right domain name choice, and static links. [...]
Makati Streets Get Technology Hope Pasay Gets It 126.7
My hat’s off to the Makati Parking Authortity (MAPA) for investing in such innovative IT-enabled instruments. The photo at left shows the M-Pad used by a traffic warden at Legazpi Village to collect parking fees and print receipts. It has a large potential for cost savings in delivering parking service as remittance and accounting are [...]
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.
Ayala Grabs Leadership in Mobile Banking for Microfinance 122.0
Ayala Corporation has obtained Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas approval to convert Filipinas Bank into an innovative IT-oriented microfinance bank. The Philippine Star reported this in today’s (10.13.09) issue, BPI forms microfinance, IT-oriented bank. Global Innovation Leadership for Ayala. I predicted this to happen in my August 31 post, World Class Innovation: Microfinance as an Ayala [...]
Romer Space Innovation Finds Product Models for Viral Marketing 115.0
As an innovation practitioner in a latecomer country, I am very interested in applications and diffusion of Paul Romer’s basic research findings. I think his 1990 paper works well as a model for knowledge-embedded as well as for viral products, both of which create high value addition from Total Factor Productivity(TFP).
Innovation in Microfinance as an Ayala Blue Ocean – 1 of 2
I think the Ayala Group sees great opportunity in the microfinance market. They can put together a strong strategy – I will attempt here to cobble up one from a grab bag of MBA buzzwords, hahah!- and have a source of strong growth in financial services in the coming years. That is if Ayala can [...]
Domestic Scan-Adapt-Diffuse Yields Laing for the World – 3 of 3
Delivering laing to Filipinos, in cans or in pouches, all over the world and all through the year is a difficult challenge to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from Post 68) for new combinations of otherwise mature technologies. In an ideal world, food factories would like to get the exact quantity of raw materials for processing every working day [...]
Technology Scan-Adapt-Diffuse Yields Opportunities from Sugar Replacement – 2 of 3
(Start of Part 2 of 3) Sugar replacement is an opportunity created by lifestyle, health and demographic changes. Yet to gain the benefit from this opportunity is not as easy as taking sugar out and replacing it with any sweetener. A lot of science (and art, too) in adaptive research is needed to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from [...]
Appropriate Technology from Scan-Adapt-Diffuse – 1 of 3
Innovation through Scan-Adapt-Diffuse is appropriate for emerging markets “Making Filipinos wealthier and the country stronger” has been my mantra in this blog. Being an industrial engineer with a passion for economics, I do not present this statement in terms of aggregates – like a typical economist – but in specific and practical terms. Update on [...]
IDEO and Design Thinking 58.0
Doing market research and rapid protyping at the same time develops great products fast IDEO is the key proponent of Design Thinking. Tim Brown, its CEO, wrote in a June 2008 Harvard Business Review article (IDEO.pdf) that Design Thinking is “a methodology that imbues the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centered design ethos.” [...]
Opportunity from Technology Convergence – The Philippines as One Virtual Bodega 1 of 2
It costs more to ship a full container from Manila to Mindanao than to Hongkong or San Francisco. Thus, food and other goods from the provinces is more expensive for the city people. At the same time, lower demand from the city slows down development in the provinces. Overall, it makes everybody poorer. High internal [...]
