Link to the Brilliant Blog What Matters by McKinsey 202.0
Enriching the conversation with essays on topics relevant to our future SYNTHESiST’s goal is to enrich the conversation on topics relevant to its chosen domain, innovation and change management in emerging markets. To help attain such goal, I have placed a link to the brilliant blog by the consulting firm McKinsey. Please click the image. [...]
Opportunities from Changes In the Environment 2 of 2
While seemingly cataclysmic, the three expected causes of rice yield loss also present opportunities. On causes of yield loss, … (Start of Part 2 of 2) Firstly, the temperature increase of 4.8% will result into heat stress on rice thus directly reducing yield. Please imagine summer temperatures in Manila at 39C. That is the temperature, [...]
Opportunity-Seeking in Innovative Entrepreneurship – 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3. These are my imaginings from reading the Cambridge History of South East Asia, from mitochondrial DNA data from New Zealand, and my observations on physiognomy. The original Maori mother is from Taiwan while the father is from PNG. This also explains differences in typical physiognomy between Tinggians from the north and [...]
Opportunity-Seeking in Innovative Entrepreneurship – 1 of 3
Note: Click on new posts on June 30 and July 3, 2011 about innovative entrepreneurship – Public-Private Partnerships will Crowd Out Innovative Entrepreneurship – Innovative Entrepreneurship is the Way to Inclusive Development “Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas” is the shortest definition I have seen. This is from the British government. I break [...]
Restoring Forests in the Philippines – 2 of 2
Afforestation and curbing deforestation, one of Stern’s (Post #24) four-part framework to ease climate change, seems a great opportunity for the Philippines. Yet, it is an incredible challenge if not an impossible dream. Part II of II. For the Philippines, carbon emissions trading could lighten the task of replanting trees. It may not provide enough [...]
