bottom of the pyramid

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• A momentous Victory over Carbon emiters and the flat earth pack of lies.

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 133
  President Barack Obama has been endowed with super powers by the EPA´s greenhouse gas endangerement rule. Now he can look  forward to the Copenhagen summit on climate change as a ready and able participant – signatory. Following a decision yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency authorising a ...
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• Research and the blog: The medium is not the message

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Dear students, As I see your invisible wanderings page by page with nothing overlooked in the index section - yes, Im tracking you guys from tu delft particularly of late - I have a small request to make. I understand that academia considers the "blog" an informal medium, with low credibility as a reference or ...
  3 days ago

• Godrej: Setting the bar for BoP innovation in consumer marketing?

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Image of Godrej Chotukool from the WSJ Distracted by the coolness of the product, I overlooked the real story developing in the Indian consumer market. New ways of distributing, new ways of creating and meeting demand, in ways that proffer dignity to members working to solve the last mile connectivity problem are ...
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• Photoblogging: Stocking up inventory in BoP retail

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 111
  All photographs taken by the author on 20th February 2009 in Januiay, Iloilo, The Philippines.
  2 weeks ago

• Reflecting on managing retail at the BoP (Prepaid Economy project)

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 111
  Ma Fes sari sari shop, The Philippines, March 1st, 2009 When I think about my time in the filipino village earlier this year, the most significant learnings from the field are the ones I never really wrote about or pondered deeply at that time. They were too specific to retail, I felt, or business management, ...
  2 weeks ago

• C.K. Prahalad, Global Social Networks and Innovation

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 136
  I’m racing through a copy of “Bottom of the Pyramid” guru, CK Prahalad’s new tome, the hefty book: The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value through Global Networks. CK’s a really smart thinker and while much of what he’s saying can seem obvious, we all know that what might seem obvious in theory ...
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• Entering BoP markets successfully - behemoth or startup?

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Late last week I met a packaging designer based out of Beijing who happened to be in Helsinki on a company visit. He posed an interesting question, from his perspective, that a behemoth multinational could easily address all the various segments in a national market by simply being able to flood the market with ...
  2 weeks ago

• BoP market segmentation: a chicken and egg dilemma?

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  The idea that has captured my imagination for the past couple of day is the question Ive attempted to pose in the title of this post. "Consumers" do not exist, they are not a human archetype like hunter, hero, traveler or savior. This Im sure is an area better covered already by experts in myth making, advertising, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Creating a market among the BoP: my ethical struggles online

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 111
  Its interesting for me to note that the category "Ethics" has been a part of this blog from its inception although Ill confess to not really knowing why I was adding it to the list. Ive the least amount of posts in this category but here is what just might be a longish one. Ive been thinking. So whats new? Thats ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons from the BoP 10: Life is hard; make it easy to use, easy to choose

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Photo credit: Goverdhan Meena, Rawal village, Rajasthan India Jan 2009 When Goverdhan, my local fixer in Sawai Madhopur shared these photos hed taken in his village back in January when I was doing the prepaid reserach in rural India, I was amused. Note the heavy duty environmental protection due to the heat and ...
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• The BoP and their "Africa" price

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 111
  Our good friend John Lumbe writes in from Malawi that the price of a loaf of bread is 100 Kwacha and an egg can cost between 18 and 20 kwacha. Not half a dozen or a dozen, they buy eggs as single treats. Imagine if a minutes phonecall to a person using a different network is 70 kwacha worth - thats a lot of food to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons from the BoP 9: Uncertainty is the only certainty

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 111
  How do you communicate the concept of "being comfortable with ambiguous, uncertain working conditions" across the vast cultural divide of the absolute North and the easily adaptable East? I, myself, have just had my assumptions about the BoP, in context of consumer marketing, jolted from their very foundations. ...
  4 weeks ago

• C K Prahalad - the worlds most influential business thinker?

  
  Public Speaking Advice and Commentary — Authority: 120
  Who is the world’s most influential business thinker?   According to Forbes(http://tinyurl.com/ygc6mb4 ) , it’s C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan, andauthor of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ( http://tinyurl.com/yghrz9s ), Competing for the Future , ...
  4 weeks ago

• If innovation happens at the edges, does that make the BoP the fringe of the global economy?

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Just curious and wondering. This question emerged from a conversation Id just had over the phone with a young woman doing her PhD at the Hanken School in the broad space between marketing, the BoP and human rights. Shes going into the field next week to do what wed done earlier in India, except that its in Tanzania. ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Bottom of the Pyramid

  
  House of Naked naked notes — Authority: 106
  Back in the 90’s few people thought that in Bangladesh, a country where almost half the population lives on a dollar or less a day, there could’ve been a profitable cell phone industry: when Iqbal Quadir was looking for investors in the U.S., one cell phone company executive reportedly said that they were “not ...
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  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 121
  
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• Lessons from the BoP 8: Assumptions of contextual knowledge questioned to lower barriers to acceptance

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Quite a few people, all quite wellknown in their fields, mostly from high tech industries, have said the equivalent regarding the BoP - "just give them the technology and theyll figure everything else out, look how creative they are etc" when it comes to introducing new products and services. And, with world class ...
  4 weeks ago

• Banking on the future of mobile financial transactions

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Espoo, Finland on 6th November 2009 Bo Harald of Tieto Corporation shared a vision of the future that his company has been working on along with many other stakehholders. They are already in the process of implementating eInvoicing, part of something they call the Real Time Economy of financial transactions ...
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• Mobile money services, contextually designed biz models for the BoP

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Dave Tait shared this press release today from FNB South Africa who have just announced a very sensitively designed system for remittance across urban and rural South Africa. On the other hand is the World Money announcement by Vodafone , who are desperately trying to position their "World Money bank account ...
  5 weeks ago

• Mapping hyperlocal BoP markets, Ushahidi might work well

  
  Perspective 2.0 — Authority: 114
  Im going to try and describe something that Erik Hersman and I once talked about for about an hour or more over Skype back when I was still living in Singapore, could have been early this year. Anyway, we got into discussing it over email again and I have his permission to share some of these ideas. What the ...
  5 weeks ago

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