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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Photoblogging: Stocking up inventory in BoP retail
All photographs taken by the author on 20th February 2009 in Januiay, Iloilo, The Philippines.
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Reflecting on managing retail at the BoP (Prepaid Economy project)
Ma Fe's 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 … Continue reading
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Entering BoP markets successfully – behemoth or startup?
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 … Continue reading
BoP market segmentation: a chicken and egg dilemma?
The idea that has captured my imagination for the past couple of day is the question I've attempted to pose in the title of this post. "Consumers" do not exist, they are not a human archetype like hunter, hero, traveler … Continue reading
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Creating a market among the BoP: my ethical struggles online
Its interesting for me to note that the category "Ethics" has been a part of this blog from its inception although I'll confess to not really knowing why I was adding it to the list. I've the least amount of … Continue reading
Lessons from the BoP 10: Life is hard; make it easy to use, easy to choose
Photo credit: Goverdhan Meena, Rawal village, Rajasthan India Jan 2009 When Goverdhan, my local fixer in Sawai Madhopur shared these photos he'd taken in his village back in January when I was doing the prepaid reserach in rural India, I … Continue reading
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The BoP and their “Africa” price
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 … Continue reading
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Lessons from the BoP 9: Uncertainty is the only certainty
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 … Continue reading
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If innovation happens at the edges, does that make the BoP the fringe of the global economy?
Just curious and wondering. This question emerged from a conversation I'd 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. She's going … Continue reading
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Lessons from the BoP 8: Assumptions of contextual knowledge questioned to lower barriers to acceptance
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 they'll figure everything else out, look how creative they are etc" … Continue reading
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Perspective 2.0 