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 [...]
Top Ten Philippines Websites by Alexa Rank as of May 23 2010
Posted by admin on May 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
From our first compilation of the top ten Philippines websites by Alexa rank three months ago (2/19/10), the 2010 automated elections and looking for jobs have become important search activities this quarter. Buy-and-sell, news, and entertainment remain top search favorites. For the whole list, the major change is the movement of most websites up the [...]
Filed under News and Stories · Tagged with Alexa, automated elections, buy-and-sell, Facebook, Google, job hunting, Market Manila, Philippines, porn sites, Search, SYNTHESiST, top ten
SYNTHESiST Completes Migration to Magazine Theme 214.0
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST Engages for a Makeover 210.0
Posted by admin on May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To become more engaging, SYNTHESiST will have a makeover into a blog and website/CMS combo using StudioPress’ Magazine theme. (Note: Please be patient if our migration will create some access inconvenience in the next few days.) The Magazine theme is beautiful. It is also powerful. It has two navigation lines. One navigation line is for [...]
Filed under News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change management, emerging markets, innovation, innovation systems, product development, search engine optimization
Unexplainable downtimes at SYNTHESiST 197.0
Posted by admin on April 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We had unexplainable shutdowns on SYNTHESiST on April 9 and yesterday April 10 unlike the downtime free situation in prior months. Our watchdog service recorded four shutdowns on Friday. Yesterday, April10, had 31 incidents that shut down the blog for about eight out of the 24 hours as in the table below. At the same [...]
Filed under News and Stories · Tagged with downtimes, plug-in, SYNTHESiST, virus, watchdog
SYNTHESiST Continues to Improve Internet Visibility 192.0
Posted by admin 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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Information and Communication, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change management, emerging markets, innovation, product development
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
Posted by admin on March 10, 2010 · 6 Comments
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) [...]
Filed under Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Energy Water and Environment, Financing of Innovation, News and Stories, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, creating shared values, intensive learning, Sagip Pasig Movement, social enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, sustainability, triple bottom line
On Congestion – Advance Post on Comelec Res 8786 GI for BEI 183.0
Posted by admin on March 8, 2010 · 5 Comments
Comelec proactively and innovatively designs VAC to help manage congestion The Comelec inserted a new provision – a really creative one – in the updated Res 8786 to create a Voters Assistance Center (VAC) in each school to help manage congestion that is the main consequence of clustering. In this automated election, congestion from clustering [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, News and Stories, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with change management, Comelec, Philippines, Res 8786, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
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.
Top Ten Filipino Sites by ALEXA Rank Today 177.0
Tells a lot about Filipinos preferences online
SYNTHESiST gets Google Buzz Button 176.0
Posted by admin 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 Media, Twitter
