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Posted by admin on June 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of recent years, Apple is the champion of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model · Tagged with Apple, brand development, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovative entrepreneurship, iPad, iPhone 4, product development, product innovation, product obsolescence, Steve Jobs, total factor productivity, Utterback
Posted by admin on February 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today Gmail gets the Buzz. The roll out is ongoing. Social media overtook email by volume of use within the past two years. Similarly, more and more people are asking their friends than searching on Google to learn about things that people ought know better. Two days ago, five out of the top twenty hottest [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with innovation, product development, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on January 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
Market leader Amazon hits back with Free! Yesterday at 0947 GMT (5:47pm Friday Manila), Amazon sent me the email at left offering a free download of Kindle for PC. Quickly, Amazon shots back across Apple’s bow. I would have taken the offer. I do buy a lot of books (like two a week). At the [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Amazon, Apple, Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation, iPad, Joseph Schumpeter, Kindle, Steve Jobs
Posted by admin on December 31, 2009 · 1 Comment
With technical innovation, North Luzon has great potential Seeing the wind farm at Bangui, Ilocos Norte, I imagined twenty, one-legged Martian machines marching as in HG Wells “The War of the Worlds.” The wind turbines are benign, though, providing 33MW of power, a fourth of Ilocos Norte’s needs. Going around and talking to people, I [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Energy Water and Environment, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, Green energy, innovation, Philippines, W Brian Arthur, zanjera
Posted by admin on December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
Intimidating at first; yet easy in the end I am done at Oxford and getting into London today. And I shall miss Flavia. She may have been Italian; but I never bothered to check. She intimidated even some of the geniuses around me! Maybe because she was so new; one often does not see someone [...]
Posted by admin on October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
BYD goes from rechargeable batteries to electric cars BYD Auto is the prime example of successful innovation and entrepreneurship from the application of ‘adjacency’ strategy. BYD expects to become the largest car company in the world within five years – and with electric cars, at that. It will end up to be the most innovative, [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Innovation Systems, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, adjacency, change management, Convergence, entrepreneur, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, product innovation, total factor productivity
Posted by admin on October 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by admin on October 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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.
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Miscellaneous · Tagged with non-rival partially excludable, Nook, product innovation, Romer space, two-sided market
Posted by admin on October 13, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Financing of Innovation, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Innovator Peso - Advocating a Stable Value, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with blue ocean, Convergence, emerging markets, financing innovation, lock-in, Philippines, product development, product innovation, total factor productivity, two-sided market
Posted by admin on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Over the years, the concept of Product has evolved and widened from the traditional, push USP as innovators try to find unserved markets or create new ones. In classic iteration and interaction, these concept changes have driven invention. In turn, they have also been driven by invention or enabled by it.
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, positioning, product development, Romer space, unbounded growth incomplete appropriability, unique selling proposition
Posted by admin on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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).
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with diffusion, innovation, late-comers, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Romer space, TFP, total factor productivity, viral product
Posted by admin on September 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
Steve Jobs introduced a new feature into the iPod nano on Wednesday, a video cam with 8 gig of memory and all for US$149. He said the feature was added to take advantage of YouTube’s strong growth in video-based social media. Jobs is a master innovator in Romer space – designing product architectures that are [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Apple, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Steve Jobs, value locking, value recovery
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