Mobile Apps Innovation is Alive and Well in the Philippines 232.0
Innovation is done by people and for people. When young people innovate and compete in the newest technology for mobile phone applications where the Philippines is at the leading edge in the world, I can only feel optimistic that technical progress is alive and well in the country. The souvenir photo above shows the contesting [...]
Ventner Builds First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacteria Cell 215.0
Craig Ventner, who first mapped the human genome, achieved another first. His research team at the J. Craig Ventner Institute (JCVI) assembled the first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell. The discovery is path-breaking as it can lead to new products like “advanced biofuels, clean water technology, and new vaccines.” Other than the products, the experimental and [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
Commercialization Story of Colgate Night & Total – 2 of 2
I may become a two-Colgate Man: the Total in the daytime and the Night for my last brush of the day! In the past three nights that I have used it, I am convinced the product Night works and serves a real need. Night expands Colgate’s space in the oral care market from just teeth [...]
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.” [...]
QFD and Process Innovation for SYNTHESiST 16.0
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.“ This is the first sentence from Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” The first page of the book has 249 words. Just 54 have more than one syllable. [...]
