Sensemaking in extreme conditions for enhancing resilience: Literature Review
Here, I want to explore themes of resilience and sensemaking together in extreme conditions. For now, I have considered the systemic shock of the global pandemic as an increase in volatility, complexity, and uncertainty of operating conditions, from the perspective of the informal urban food system in Nairobi, Kenya. Therefore I have deliberately excluded literature […]
IMD Case Study – how Mpesa’s adoption transformed Safaricom
There is a case study on Safaricom that supports my viewpoint – that first one must consider the operating environment pragmatically prior to design and delivery of services for low income markets for a successful outcome that then drives the transformation of both the customer base and the corporation, giving rise to new ecosystems and […]
Mobile telephony and low income customers: Market conditions drove product development and pricing
Many who were around and as obsessed by the entry of mobile telephony in the global South during the early years of this century will recall this eyecatching graphic used to illustrate the announcement by Cameroonian researchers Victor and Irene Mbarika that can now be pointed to as the moment Africa’s mobile revolution was born: […]
Situating one’s rant within business model typology for rural and low income markets
After yesterday’s post on stripping out social considerations to allow for a pragmatic economic assessment of viability prior to investing in infrastructure for service delivery to rural customers, I looked up literature on the general theme. Site selection as a keyword brought a slew of articles focusing on GIS technology, primarily from the lens of […]
Is a business inclusive if its doing business in rural Africa? Why modeling economic capacity matters
Whether a business thinks of itself as inclusive or not, it must consider the sustainability of revenue streams and their expected duration, prior to committing themselves to infrastructural investments in rural locations of the global South. Those that position themselves as inclusive businesses – regardless of size, must consider the value being created for their […]
Let me…
Let me be the month of April, the poetry month they say. Let me sing the song of spring, the sun shines every day. Let me look around with wonder, gaze upon the streams; walk within the forest, and muse upon the trees. Let me find the joy of life, and learn to love the […]
How literature review is changing my own mindset and perspective
Diving deep in to the literature of specific topics and on narrowly focused subject matter has been surprisingly pleasurable. And unexpected. The presence of the blog as an accompaniment is like a condiment for food for thought. In the month since I began to take blogging again seriously, even with the struggles to write down […]
Book Review: The graphic novel as a format for visual sensemaking and the change poets of ‘Unrig’
My local library – part of the Helsinki City system – had this book on display yesterday among the handful of English language books accessible for browsing within the current constraints of the pandemic. I devoured it in one sitting. As I wrote in a private paid-for social media platform where I’m part of the […]
The Magic of Sensemaking
Really, there’s no other way to say this but Weick (Weick, 2011) here is clearly struggling to express in words his song of magic that he’s perceived in the decades spent in sensemaking and its power. After all, if indeed the Kalevala highlights the core aspect of Finnish magic from the time before writing, when […]
Vanishing Point
Or, does one step outside of the system in its entirety in order to discover one’s humanity? What is the system that threatens you the most? Which system oppresses you? Is it possible to extricate oneself from such systems entirely? Or one must make do with what one can to shield oneself from such systems? […]
