Teaching Innovation
Whose Idea?
Innovation is about value creation and realization, NOT JUST CONCEPTUALIZATION. As such, it actually means that you as an innovator must have brought something into the world for it to be considered a true innovation. This brings me to one of my favorite statistics (whose numbers are based only on my gut feel to... »
Spinnin’
A couple of months ago, Nikka Arcilla, a 3rd year student in the Ateneo School of Management approached me because she and other likeminded friends wanted to set-up the first ever school-based organization that was going to focus on Innovation. I eventually met more members of the core group (including Matthew Cua, another student... »
The 5th (and most imporant) P of Marketing
Rags2Riches was featured in Fashion Forecast 2008 — a fashion show featuring new and upcoming Filipino designers — held last June 21 at the Rockwell tent. It was really wicked seeing our Nanays’ creations being flaunted by sassy models. Anyway, this whole RIIR phenomenon is really fulfilling our wild expectations From the very beginning,... »
Blessed Are the Geeks
http://www.popsci.com/exoskeleton Okay, i’m having a totally geek moment. While movies — especially those comic book-inspired characters such as recent fan favorite Iron Man — are supposedly fiction, it nonetheless has vestiges of its roots in reality. Using the same aforementioned example, some uberscientists featured in Popular Science are allegedly “building the Real Iron Man”... »
Springwise
I love this website www.springwise.com, a repository of funky entrepreneurial ideas all around the world. Now i’m not sure not all of them are roaringly successful, but at the very least the businesses featured here are at least trying to attempt something different. I really hope that one day we’d have a critical mass... »
Where to Start
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” - Albert Einstein »
What’s Your Innovation Equation?
Innovative ideas are really the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements and making them all work together. Synthesis gives birth to new creations. In this light, i’ve really found it useful to crystallize one’s thinking by expressing an idea in terms of an innovation equation (or iQuation, as i fondly call it). In a nutshell,... »
05.17.08 KolektibStorm [Photo Album]
KolektibStorm — innovation brainstorming to solve social problems, held @kolektib »
What’s the Big Idea?
When teaching entrepreneurship, most teachers and curricula focus on the components of the tried-and-tested “business plan” — the market analysis, the feasibility study, the financials, the operations, the human resources planning etc etc etc. And oh, by the way, somewhere along the way the business concept is tangentially tackled as well. I beg to... »
03.01.08 BIM2 Finals [Photo Album]
Business Innovation Management Batch2 Final Presentations »
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