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Posted by m beduya on September 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The launch of Kindle Fire yesterday proved my futurology skills right as to the appropriate response by the e-reader leader, Amazon, to avoid collateral damage from Apple’s iPad tablet. I wrote about this strategic response in the January 30, 2010 post Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space just four days after the Apple [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Google Wallet represents the latest innovative convergence of technologies to improve convenience in electronic settlement. Electronic settlement is one of three necessary legs to complete the chain of e-commerce. The other two are (a) the marketplace where the buy-and-sell transaction takes place and (b) fulfillment that takes care of the delivery leg of what was [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A face from the past and a pioneer in software venture capital, Anne Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, gave a very insightful interview on Bloomberg yesterday after a big news headlines day in the digital world. All the big news are the result of the leading companies positioning for the product innovation battles of [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Anne Winblad, Apple, Bill Gates, Google, Larry Page, Marc Andressen, Microsoft, personal data space, product innovation, Real-time connectivity, Sergei Brin, Skype, Steve Jobs, venture capital
Posted by m beduya on April 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Implementing the right factory software information systems (ICT) enables productivity for manufacturing firms. ICT is a general purpose technology that, when applied correctly, has been proven to improve productivity. ICT in manufacturing increases productivity in three ways, first by institutionalizing business processes, second by improving coordination among factory functions, and, finally, by hard-wiring empowerment for [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Cantier, competitiveness, emerging markets, enterprise resource planning, ERP, general purpose technology, innovation, M-ERP, manufacturing execution systems, MES, productivity
Posted by m beduya on March 17, 2011 · 5 Comments
Business model innovation to add a Web-based component to the business strategy, at the level of firms, is proof that SYNTHESiST’s appreciative theory of development works. Adapting the business model is co-evolution while the Web is comprised of general purpose technologies that, with the right organization structure, enable innovation. With continuous interaction between this two [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Amazon, business model, business model innovation, business strategy, co-evolution, Facebook, Google, Groupon, lock-in, Search, Social Graph, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST, value-adding potential
Posted by m beduya on March 7, 2011 · 4 Comments
Bringing appropriate technology and empowering the poor is Jim Ayala’s passion. He set up HYBRID Social Solutions as a “for profit” social enterprise. It is the pioneer social distribution company in the Philippines, to empower the poor by giving access to appropriate technology. The innovative concept of social distribution builds on an insightful view of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with appropriate technology, change management, clean water technology, co-evolution, emerging markets, energy, HYBRID, HYBRID Social Solutions, innovation, productivity, scan-adapt-diffuse, social enterprise, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya on January 20, 2011 · 3 Comments
I have the kernel of a growth framework that can work for firms. It looks like a general framework for emerging markets development that I have been working on in SYNTHESiST for the past two years. I realized this while preparing for a brief talk on innovation and strategy with a leading multinational firm. This [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with adjacency, business model, business model innovation, co-evolution, competitiveness, Convergence, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, general purpose technologies, increasing returns, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, productivity, Social Innovation, technology-enabler
Posted by m beduya on June 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Apple, brand development, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovative entrepreneurship, iPad, James Utterback, product development, product innovation, product obsolescence, Steve Jobs, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya 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 - Technology x Business Model, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories, Social Innovation · Tagged with innovation, product development, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya 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 - Technology x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Apple, Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation, iPad, Joseph Schumpeter, Kindle, Steve Jobs
Posted by m beduya on December 31, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Energy Water and Environment, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, innovation, Philippines, W Brian Arthur, zanjera
Posted by m beduya 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 [...]
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