It has been seven years since W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne came out with a book called The Blue Ocean Strategy. In the Philippines, it is still relatively new. It is rather odd that a few companies have invested in adopting a strategy that would allow them to get out of a situation where many businesses [...] Read more »
Finding a “Blue Ocean” for Philippine Business
Ben Kritz recently wrote about how Philippine business is adrift on a “red ocean”, which is a metaphor for a situation wherein businesses are in the thick of battling it out for market share. “We are facing ever-increasing competition, and we have to reduce our prices and increase our advertising just to keep up.” The Philippine [...] Read more »
Willing Revillame goes on leave after advertisers pull-out
Last night, Willy Revillame launched into a monologue where he basically portrayed himself as a hero do-gooder who is being victimized by people who are jealous of his success and want to tear him down. Then, at the end of his monologue, he told the audience that he would go on leave for two weeks [...] Read more »
Unilever suspends advertising in Willing Willie and other TV game shows
(Note: Since last year, I’ve been talking with Mr. Chito Macapagal, Unilever Philippines VP for Corporate Affairs, about his company’s zero solid-waste program and other possible solutions to eliminating the scourge of plastic pollution in the Philippines. It was my experience with 2009′s Ondoy that had driven me to write him last year and inquire [...] Read more »
Run Against (Human) Trafficking: Another race-for-a-cause or is it?
Over the past year, I’ve seen all sorts of races being run for all sorts of causes and while I generally brush off these events as gimmickry or as a poor substitute to direct action. I am not a big fan of big showy, celebrity driven calls for mass actions that get blasted on [...] Read more »
Converting Urban and Farm Waste into Organic Fertilizer
One common problem that all cities and towns in the Philippines has is how to dispose of the waste its people generate. While there seems to be no end to the amount of garbage generated by cities and towns, there are only a very few places where people will welcome the endless stream of [...] Read more »
Pinoybuzz: UP Jeepney Operator goes for Bio-Diesel made from used cooking oil
When Typhoon Ondoy submerged most of Metro Manila and so called citizen journalists started thumping their chests while shouting “Where I am from, everybody is a hero!” as they distributed relief goods, some of the people who were warning every one about climate change probably shook their heads. The message they were spreading, apparently, hadn’t [...] Read more »
Ho-hum… Villar cuts Noynoy’s lead in survey
But regardless of whether or not surveys do or do not influence how people vote, what is clear to me is that electing a leader means choosing the person with the best qualifications for a position and that involves examining a candidate's worthiness based on a criteria. Of course, the criteria by itself will not do you any good unless you get to know as much as you can about the other candidates. Read more »
Pinoy Buzz: Supporter says Noynoy coming to Romulo debate
ERRATA: Misunderstood @bluevill, apparently what he meant was that Noynoy will be going to a debate at La Salle Zobel on Saturday and no confirmation has been made about his attendance to the Romulo debate. Here is a direct message from him on twitter: bluevill Pls read my tweet to momblogger. Debate Sat. at La [...] Read more »
Noynoy Aquino should join the Romulo foundation debate
(I was going to post this as a response to a comment in the previous post on the Carlos Romulo Foundation debate but decided to post it as an entry because it was very long.) According to the announcement I got from a friend, the organizers of the Carlos P. Romulo Foundation for Peace and [...] Read more »
