Early morning in Torino, Italy
This blog will be right back with writing soon! Just a very busy period of travel and work – including a quick trip out to visit Experientia in Turin, Italy. This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Prosperity McFizz
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Sun shines on the snow
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Morning coffee for the unaware
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Timely and relevant or obsolete? Kotler’s BoP in India
Syamant just sent me this Business Standard article on Philip Kotler’s Centre of Excellence to open near New Delhi to focus on the BoP specifically. That is, the Bottom of the Pyramid which was the title of CK Prahalad’s seminal book on high volume, low cost markets in the informal economies of the developing world. […]
Phase zero
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Removing the signal from the noise
Why simply seek to discern the signals in the noise? When the activity level raises the threshold of noise to the point where you find yourself shouting just to hear yourself think then its a great signal of a time to withdraw from the hustle and bustle of life, to meditate and contemplate the nature […]
The Truth About Disruptive Development in the Digital Village
After a quick Twitter interaction, I find myself having agreed to write this caveat to Ken Banks’ recently published article The Truth About Disruptive Development published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. So I’ll start by taking a step back to ask myself what aspects of his proposed points make me hesitate with a second […]
Reframing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a human centered design challenge
The tangible manifestation of the concept of turning government’s calls to action for public private partnerships in development was crafted by Jeroen Meijer of JAM Visualdenken and expertise on sustainable agricultural value chains provided by Bart Doorneweert of LEI, Wageningen. The design challenges, as we called them, reframed the problem statement in the form a […]
The pros and cons of Kenya’s role as technology pioneer and East African frontier market
Rural Kenyan schoolhouse, somewhere near Kisii, March 2012 Only two years have passed since the publication of the Emerging Africa series of articles for Dirk Knemeyer’s GoInvo blog starting in February 2011. Since then I’ve had a much closer look at Kenya’s current state of the art when it comes to internet diffusion, renewable energy […]
