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Posted by m beduya on April 3, 2010 · 1 Comment
Pascale and Sternin develop the innovation of Positive Deviance All my professional life, as an Industrial Engineer or IE, I have been involved in change management. Typically for an IE, change starts from the mantra “there is always a better way.” Next, it leads to packaging of the change and, finally, to persuading the stakeholders [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 17, 2010 · 1 Comment
This hardy Filipino-fabricated machine is cause for cheer I could hardly contain my excitement at seeing a Filipino-fabricated rotary filler being set up yesterday – a working product from the minuscule Philippine machinery industry is on the ground before me! YAY! as my young friends shout. And LOL with that. Fighting against economic policies like [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, Apolinario Mabini, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, National Innovation Systems, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Philippines, reverse engineering, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya 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 · Tagged with adaptive research, creating shared value, intensive learning, productivity, Sagip Pasig Movement, social enterprise, Social Innovation, sustainability, triple bottom line
Posted by m beduya on February 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
The scan-adapt-diffuse approach to technology acquisition. Consumers’ desire for healthier food creates opportunities for the enterprising innovator. A more sedentary lifestyle especially in the developed world and increasingly so in emerging markets makes a sodium-rich diet a high risk of cardiovascular disease. The major source of sodium in our diet is salt so that it [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, opportunity-seeking, product development, product innovation
Posted by m beduya on January 11, 2010 · 1 Comment
Let us stop flagellating ourselves with negative news From 2005, Goldman Sachs identified the Philippines as one of eleven countries “that could potentially have a BRIC-like impact in rivalling the G7.” More recently, in September 2009, the FTSE Global Equity Index Series classified the Philippines as one of seventeen secondary emerging countries with regards to [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Health and Medical Care, Information and Communication, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Clayton Christensen, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovation, Joseph Schumpeter, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, Social Innovation, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on January 5, 2010 · 3 Comments
Catching up and leapfrogging is hard; Improving winner industries in captured growth markets with enabler technologies easier Each country, because of its level of development, will have its own bounded innovation ecosystem that is intertwined with that of the rest of the world. The Philippines, as typical of emerging markets, does not lead in any [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Energy Water and Environment, Health and Medical Care, Information and Communication, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, change management, China, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, innovation, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Philippines, scan-adapt-diffuse, Social Innovation, STI-Learning, technology-enabler
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 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Rule encourages free and robust discussions At Oxford, where I am attending a symposium, I learned of the Rule: When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any [...]
Posted by m beduya on December 5, 2009 · 1 Comment
Qatar AIrways serves up a less allergenic and Halal version Kare-kare is a north Philippine dish normally made with peanut sauce and served with bagoong, a fermented shrimp product. The Qatar Airways kare-kare was made out of well-cooked beef and tasted similar to the original even without the peanut sauce; or maybe the high altitude [...]
Posted by m beduya on November 28, 2009 · 4 Comments
Robert Siy found lessons from a resilient Philippine model I think I have a gem in Robert Siy’s book, published in 1982 and out-of-print. This post is more a story of the sleuthing for nuggets of wisdom than of the gems themselves. I picked my second-hand copy up yesterday from Johnny Air Cargo at the [...]
Posted by m beduya on November 22, 2009 · 3 Comments
Oh to be Young and Able – the Web2Mobile Story! Globe Telecom Philippines is fortunate to have young techies develop potentially lucrative mobile applications for free – well, almost free having obtained true intellectual property in exchange for OJT-time pay. J. Allen Q. Santos and Oliver Ruth A. Dag – yes! these are there names [...]
Posted by m beduya on October 26, 2009 · 1 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 Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology 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
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