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Posted by m beduya on August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training course – a five-day customized management development program for dealer-entrepreneurs – at the Asian Institute of Management. As Program Director, I designed the course and selected the teaching staff. I am also the production manager and thus far this week [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The life cycle of firms conform to that of its underlying product, service or innovation. This life cycle follows the typical curve shown at left (Chart credit: Wikipedia). This same curve presented cumulatively is an S-curve with four identifiable stages: start-up, hypergrowth, maturity, and decline. These stages roughly correspond to the four technology phases. Management [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Policy planners are already doing detail policy research before they execute For this my last post from the 7th Asialics in Taipei, I peg my notes on a paper presented in the technology and industry stream on (a) the nice Taiwanese problem of innovation for growth and (b) the detail research activity done by policy [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, catch-up, emerging markets, industrial policy, innovation, National Innovation Systems, S-curve, Social Innovation, Taiwan
Posted by m beduya on February 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Fiesta and infra are muscle and bone of the Philippine body politic On the way back from a conference in Tagaytay on Thursday, I took a wrong turn and luckily ended up at the fiesta celebration and Karakol procession at Paligawan, Silang in Cavite. Fiesta. Critics have charged fiestas as wasteful. Yet, as with Ben [...]
Posted by m beduya on August 29, 2009 · 4 Comments
I submitted a draft proposal to input innovation into a framework being put together for mentoring and coaching out-of-school youth (OSY) on entrepreneurship at the APEC seminar on Friday, August 28. I focused on competence-building techniques as inputs into learning-by-doing to be the best way to increase the OSY’s chances of success. The seminar was [...]
Filed under Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Innovation Systems, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, emerging markets, enterprise resource planning, innovative entrepreneurship, learning-by-doing, management information system, out-of-school-youth, Philippines, S-curve, Social Innovation, STI-Learning
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 June 6, 2009 · 11 Comments
Innovation through Scan-Adapt-Diffuse is appropriate for emerging markets “Making Filipinos wealthier and the country stronger” has been my mantra in this blog. Being an industrial engineer with a passion for economics, I do not present this statement in terms of aggregates – like a typical economist – but in specific and practical terms. Update on [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Classic Nurturing - Industry Clusters and Science Parks, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adaptive research, appropriate technology, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, change management, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, logistic curve, National Innovation Systems, Paul Romer, Philippines, process innovation, product innovation, Robert Solow, S-curve, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
