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Posted by m beduya on October 13, 2009 · 4 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 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, Financing of Innovation, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Innovator Peso, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with Blue Ocean, Convergence, emerging markets, financing innovation, lock-in, Philippines, product development, product innovation, total factor productivity, two-sided market
Posted by m beduya on September 2, 2009 · 1 Comment
I think the simplest and fastest entry for Ayala into microfinance is as a wholesale banker to lending investors and rural banks. The credit products may be in tranches of P1m, P4M, etc. and mirror the microfinance model in most respects.
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 · Tagged with Blue Ocean, Convergence, locking-in value, microfinance, Paul Romer, Philippines, product development
Posted by m beduya on August 31, 2009 · 2 Comments
I think the Ayala Group sees great opportunity in the microfinance market. They can put together a strong strategy – I will attempt here to cobble up one from a grab bag of MBA buzzwords, hahah!- and have a source of strong growth in financial services in the coming years. That is if Ayala can [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adjacency, Blue Ocean, bottom of the pyramid, core competence, increasing returns, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Philippines, value innovation, value locking
Posted by m beduya on August 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I feel like a daddy looking after my newborn, first child. First published this year on the same day as EDSA 1, February 25, SYNTHESiST has 98 posts as of today (that is roughly one post every two days). Also, I have commented on 39 books and journals or one every five days. In the [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Miscellaneous, News and Stories · Tagged with agribusiness, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Blue Ocean, change agent, change management, DUI-Learning, endogenous technological change, increasing returns, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, next generation demand, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Social Innovation, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on August 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Last week, I taught in a short course on “Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurial Firms” at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). I designed my part to teach new combo techniques in finding innovation opportunities in today’s crisis.
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with AIM, Asian Institute of Management, Blue Ocean, competing for the future, core competence, increasing returns, network effects, next generation demand, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Philippines, Porter's Model, S-curve, value chain innovation, value innovation
Posted by m beduya on August 17, 2009 · 4 Comments
Theoretical economists and management theorists, like scientists viz engineers, often do not see eye-to-eye. The goal of the first is often new knowledge while those of the second is practical application. Their stakeholders, methodologies and measures of success are also different. Still, they often inhabit one S-curve though at different parts. For this post, the [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Social Innovation · Tagged with Adrian Slywotzky, Blue Ocean, demand innovation, diffusion, dominant design, endogenous technological change, global tacit knowledge, increasing returns, innovation, invention, James Utterback, just-in-Time, network effects, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, process innovation, S-curve, vaue innovation
Posted by m beduya on May 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
(Start of Part 2 of 2) For Blue Ocean, McCafe of McDonald’s is a great example of adjacency. Zach’s Investment Research reports on Friday, May 8, “McDonald’s strong U.S. sales were fueled by its popular line of healthier chicken snack wraps, and by its successful recent rollout of McCafe coffees.” McCafe was first tried out [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I coin the phrase “Opportunity from Adjacency” for the approach to innovative entrepreneurship using the industry value chain. Two such approaches are currently popular. The “Profit Zone” finds opportunity in adjacent links with financial analysis as the starting point. The “Blue Ocean “ finds opportunities in adjacent links with product-market analysis. This post will have [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Books and Journals · Tagged with adjacency, Blue Ocean, business model, cloud computing, Facebook, Google, innovation, James Utterback, Microsoft, Opportunity, profit zone, Search, Social Graph, Software-as-a-Service, YouTube
