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Posted by m beduya on September 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In a telephone conversation, a dear friend gave a reaction to the series of posts that SYNTHESiST had on productivity – on Frederick Taylor, Six Sigma, Paul Krugman on competitiveness and McKinsey and design thinking. She mentions that they have moved beyond productivity to competitiveness as the higher goal. This post integrates my views on [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 8, 2010 · 10 Comments
As with China now, emerging market Japan was accused of using an undervalued currency to build an export machine. Indeed, they may have dragged increasing the value of their currency to maximize yen returns until it became untenable for the country. Still, there were other explanations for their success that involved social innovation systems like [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with change management, emerging Japan, emerging markets, just-in-Time, kaizen, National Innovation Systems, productivity, Richard Schonberger, skunk work, Social Innovation, total factor productivity, toyota production system, TQC
Posted by m beduya on October 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The usual first response of Filipino exporters and contact and BPO center businesses to a strong peso appreciation is to ask the government, through their industry associations, for a foreign exchange bailout. With the government considered a soft touch and not proactive, this has created a culture of dependency over the years. It made companies [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Innovator Peso · Tagged with competence-building, emerging markets, financing innovation, innovation, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, just-in-Time, Philippines, process improvement, total factor productivity, total quality management, TQC
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 July 1, 2009 · 6 Comments
In the Philippines, hardly any basic research is being done that gets to commercialization. Much research is adaptive in nature followed by product development in response to realities in the market. My professional life was mainly in the area of technology scanning, adapting and diffusing in the private sector.
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning · Tagged with adaptive research, AIM, change management, commercialization, DUI-Learning, intensive learning, just-in-Time, Philippines, Richard Schonberger
