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Posted by m beduya on August 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Consultants’ advice on productivity improvement, as branded management products, evolve from new insights found in social science research and in empirical practice. IDEO’s Design Thinking is one such clear and late stage innovation in the business’s search for continuous productivity improvement. Design Thinking’s success and arrival in the Philippines is evidenced by entry into local [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning · Tagged with concurrent engineering, design thinking, ideation, product development, productivity, productivity improvement, quality function deployment, rapid prototyping, reengineering, Six Sigma, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on June 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of recent years, Apple is the champion of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Apple, brand development, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovative entrepreneurship, iPad, James Utterback, product development, product innovation, product obsolescence, Steve Jobs, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on June 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
At its barest essence, innovation means bringing something new to market successfully. On February 18, 2009, Knowledge at Wharton, of the U Penn (Image at left has link.), in cooperation with Nightly Business Report of the PBS published the findings of a survey that identified the top innovations in A World Transformed: What are the [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
Fifteen months from its first post, SYNTHESiST completed the first phase of its migration to the Magazine theme. The migration supports many purposes. The foremost is to create a rich conversation within a community of like-minded people on the domain of innovation systems and change management for emerging markets. SYNTHESiST becomes a content management system [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change leaders, change management, content management system, emerging markets, innovation systems, magazine theme, product development, search engine optimization, SEO, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on May 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Lopez-owned Power Plant Mall is designed to be friendly to the vulnerable sector. Unlike the Comelec that is mandated to be likewise friendly to the vulnerable sector but cannot seem to implement uniformly, the Mall must have been designed with the sector in mind though without being marketed just as a place for the [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To become more engaging, SYNTHESiST will have a makeover into a blog and website/CMS combo using StudioPress’ Magazine theme. (Note: Please be patient if our migration will create some access inconvenience in the next few days.) The Magazine theme is beautiful. It is also powerful. It has two navigation lines. One navigation line is for [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Alexa rank is 494,714. SYNTHESiST is #2 on Page 1 in Google Search. Today, for the first time, SYNTHESiST broke above the 500,000 rank on Alexa from 8,600,000 when I enlisted ninety days ago. Google PageRank stays at 3/10 after thirteen months, 192 substantial posts and 6 pages on the Internet. Content still King. Blog [...]
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 February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, Facebook, Google Buzz, innovation, product development, product innovation, Social Graph, Twitter
Posted by m beduya on February 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST rises above #1 million. Surveys describe its readers. As I thought, the mathematical formula behind Alexa’s ranking quickly brought SYNTHESiST above the 1 millionth from the low 8.6 million rank when I enrolled on December 25, 2009. Today, Alexa ranks SYNTHESiST at #983,845, its highest ever. Sulit.com.ph is the highest ranked Filipino site at [...]
Posted by m beduya on February 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today Gmail gets the Buzz. The roll out is ongoing. Social media overtook email by volume of use within the past two years. Similarly, more and more people are asking their friends than searching on Google to learn about things that people ought know better. Two days ago, five out of the top twenty hottest [...]
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, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories, Social Innovation · Tagged with innovation, product development, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya on February 6, 2010 · 1 Comment
Surprisingly, Kathleen Eisenhardt and inductive case research wins To help improve blog content, the very first principle of white hat SEO, I installed a keyword cloud plug-in at the Sidebar on the right to compare results with my tag cloud. At the footer below, the tag cloud is my own view about what is important [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, intensive learning, Peter Senge, product development, search engine optimization, SEO, William Baumol
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