Positive Deviance Finds and Enacts Change from the Ground Up 195.0
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 [...]
Philippines-Fabricated Rotary Filling Machine 188.0
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 [...]
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) [...]
Opportunities from Salt Replacement in Food Preparation 169.0
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 [...]
Philippines As Emerging Market 157.0
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 [...]
Technology Innovation Strategy for Emerging Markets 156.0
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 [...]
Green Energy from the Mountains Wind and Waves 155.0
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 [...]
The Chatham House Rule at Oxford 146.0
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 [...]
Innovative Kare-Kare 145.0
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 [...]
Zanjera as Community Resource Management 141.0
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 [...]
Web2Mobile Innovation is Alive in the Philippines 138.0
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 [...]
Innovation Opportunity from Adjacency – BYD Auto 127.0
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, [...]
