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Posted by m beduya on January 20, 2011 · 3 Comments
I have the kernel of a growth framework that can work for firms. It looks like a general framework for emerging markets development that I have been working on in SYNTHESiST for the past two years. I realized this while preparing for a brief talk on innovation and strategy with a leading multinational firm. This [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with adjacency, business model, business model innovation, co-evolution, competitiveness, Convergence, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, general purpose technologies, increasing returns, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, productivity, Social Innovation, technology-enabler
Posted by m beduya on March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The best marketing response for Amazon against Apple iPad Amazon has done today exactly as I said in my January 29 post, Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space, one day after Apple launched its iPAd the best marketing response to Apple. Today, at 4:08 pm Manila time, I received an email for the [...]
Posted by m beduya on December 20, 2009 · 9 Comments
W. Brian Arthur digs deep for an evolutionary theory of technology Professor W. Brian Arthur’s 2009 book takes time to read and appreciate. Like any great book, its insights run in layers. Its front jacket compares his effort for technology to Thomas Kuhn’s for science (in The Structure of Scientific Revolutionn). Professor Kuhn first suggested [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization · Tagged with Convergence, increasing returns, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, technology forecasting, W Brian Arthur
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
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 May 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST reached a milestone with the publication of the 50th and 51st entries on May 4, 2009. The posts are about an opportunity in national logistics from a change in business model and convergence of technologies changing. We were fueled by enthusiasm at the start to overcome the difficulties of writing in a new media [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
(Start of 2 of 2) In this post, we propose a solution to the problem via a change in the national logistics model. This proposal lowers delivery cost for producers and buying cost for consumers at the same time. This proposal is an opportunity for existing or new players and systems integrators to come together. [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with business model, change management, Convergence, first mover, lock-in, logistics, network effects, Philippines, systems integrator, technology-enabler, Virtual Bodega
Posted by m beduya on May 4, 2009 · 3 Comments
It costs more to ship a full container from Manila to Mindanao than to Hongkong or San Francisco. Thus, food and other goods from the provinces is more expensive for the city people. At the same time, lower demand from the city slows down development in the provinces. Overall, it makes everybody poorer. High internal [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Opportunities for innovative entrepreneurship are more specialized than those for general or replicative entrepreneurship (See Post #28) because, by definition, it is based on new knowledge. Science in today’s world has a broader definition to also include social sciences where advanced mathematical or statistical techniques are used to simulate and test hypotheses. For example, the [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, 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, Social Innovation · Tagged with adaptive research, adjacency, Convergence, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, opportunity-seeking, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya on March 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Over a bowl of noodles, a teacher-entrepreneur friend said, “Your blog does not have enough posts on technology.” Then he went on a rant – which I have noticed he reserves for friends – about why technology is important. Looking at the past 26 posts, I am saddened that, indeed, there is not much about [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with Convergence, endogenous technological change, entrepreneur, innovation, opportunity-seeking, Paul Romer, Philippines, scan-adapt-diffuse, Social Innovation, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on March 12, 2009 · 1 Comment
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.“ This is the first sentence from Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” The first page of the book has 249 words. Just 54 have more than one syllable. [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators · Tagged with Convergence, New York Times, process innovation, product development, quality function deployment
