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		<title>Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Productivity &#8211; Competitiveness or Innovation? 245.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a telephone conversation, a dear friend gave a reaction to the series of posts that SYNTHESiST had on productivity &#8211; on Frederick Taylor, Six Sigma, Paul Krugman on competitiveness and McKinsey and design thinking. She mentions that they have moved beyond productivity to competitiveness as the higher goal. This post integrates my views on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity Can Power Poor Countries to Developed Status 244.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today.&#8221; William Lewis, Founding Director of McKinsey Global Institute, contends in McKinsey&#8217;s book, The Power of Productivity, (2004 University of Chicago), that &#8220;the key to improving economic conditions in poor countries is increasing productivity through intense fair competition and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Productivity Allows Growth and Equity at the Same Time 243.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovator Peso - Advocating a Stable Value]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that in economies where trade is a small component of GDP as in the Philippines, the main determinant of competitiveness is domestic productivity. And, in my view, addressing development policy via domestic productivity at the industry or firm level, and not with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDEO Design Thinking Breaks the Productivity Frontier 242.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brand and Product Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consultants&#8217; advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products, evolve from new insights found in social science research and in empirical practice. IDEO&#8217;s Design Thinking is one such clear and late stage innovation in the business&#8217;s search for continuous productivity improvement. Design Thinking&#8217;s success and arrival in the Philippines is evidenced by entry into local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sigma Raises Productivity to the Effective Limit 241.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://synthesistblog.com/?p=10363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The productivity surge in American business from 1980 through 2000 was driven by innovations like Six Sigma. Motorola first innovated on Six Sigma in the late 1980s as a method to manage process variations for quality improvement in manufacturing that, linked with business strategy, ultimately yielded improved productivity in the whole business. In the 1990s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives or Industrial Policy for Economic Growth? 240.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Easterly criticized his fellow economists in international financial institutions for failing poor countries in their elusive quest for growth in his &#8216;hard-nosed&#8217; (Solow) and &#8216;original&#8217; (The Economist) 2001 book. In the Preface to this edition (2002), he writes &#8220;the World Bank encourages gadflies like me to find another job.&#8221; He had to move on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a Better Way &#8211; to Eat Tacos 239.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the tacos at Pancake House. I take two at a time with whatever I order. Sitting before my usual yesterday, I wondered if there is a better way to eat it without scattering cheese bits all over my plate. IE classmates, if you know a better way, please share by return email. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching a Platform Program on Dealer Development at AIM 238.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training course &#8211; a five-day customized management development program for dealer-entrepreneurs &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amartya Sen Says Development Follows Expanding Freedoms 237.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics, is one of the most eminent development economists today. In his book, Development as Freedom (1999, Anchor), Professor Sen quotes Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics in justifying why he believes freedom is more important than wealth as the true object and subject of development: &#8220;wealth is evidently [...]]]></description>
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