Andre K. Fowlkes: Why not a ‘venture fund’ to support community initiatives? http://t.co/dh4aMVgI — djychun (@djychun)
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Blue Ocean Strategy workshops March 28-30
Our team was able to attend the Blue Ocean Strategy workshops including our associates who got to learn to support the data collection, conduct preliminary research on companies and cases that exhibit the practice of BOS.
It’s also rewarding to know that my certification is underway with my case study submission for ClassBooking and OpenClass.
Signing up to become Kids4Kids Volunteer
Kids4Kids has been recruiting volunteers through universities, colleges and schools (even primary or elementary schools)
If you want to sign up to become a student volunteer. Please sign up.
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Induction – Buddy Reading 101 at Kids4Kids
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Funding available in HK for inclusion, learning and social ~
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Ten takeaways for strategic planning in a non-profit organisations
Been reading a book call “Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy” by Paul Brest and Hal Harvey. Quite a different type of book that I am used to, but what this inspires me is the type of non-profit organisations and its leader/founder’s passion – just like the type work that one of my friend has founded called Kids4Kids. (Http://Kids4Kids.org.hk) in Hong Kong
At any given level, you have to respect the type of work these passionate startups do in order to provide a needing service. From a strategic standpoint, non-profit startups had to also find their own Blue Ocean Strategy as well as creating a product or service that fits the market. (i.e. Product-Market-Fit).
Using Blue Ocean Strategy’s Buyer Experience Cycle and Buyer Utility Lever, one can actually really visualise and compile hands on some of the market needs and pain points and start looking into what can be done to eliminate these pain points.
A consultancy for non-profit startups has summarised “Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning for Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders”
1) A clear and comprehensive grasp of external opportunities and challenges
2) A realistic and comprehensive assessment of the organization’s strength and limitations
3) An inclusive approach
4) An empowered planning committee
5) Involvement of senior leadership
6) Sharing of responsibility by board and staff members
7) Learning from best practices
8) Clear priorities and implementation plan
9) Patience
10) A commitment to change
Complete details as a PDF is available in here.
The question is can any startup use the same ? I believe so.
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NOKIA-UNESCO Education-For-All IdeasProject.com
I was recently invited by NOKIA – UNESCO – PEARSON to be a judge together with some other colleagues who are experts in Mobile Learning for this IdeasProject Education-For-All Community Challenge .
This is one type of Crowd-sourcing (also known as Co-creation) project that can potentially create changes, demand and adoption of ICT and Mobile technologies in Education. Great prizes, Be Creative, Join Today, Best For Students. There are many other projects.
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RIM says “Who is eating my lunch, dinner and breakfast”
RIM to RIP. this is no joke. Some people at TechCrunch has been commenting RIM has changed name to RIP and no wonder their dinner , lunch and breakfast was eaten by iPhone and Android.
To understand these assertions, one has to really look into how RIM got to become where they were. Sure they have a bunch of patents to help them protect their early innovations. Have they really innovate in the last 5 years. Now, does this look familiar to you ? Yahoo ? AOL ? (more about Yahoo and AOL in the next post.) Many companies especially big ones tend to disregard innovations and particularly blue ocean strategy products and services because they are happy with their status quo. Disruption is the least they want.
RIM’s playbook as tablet is off the mark and I have discussed this before
And where is the new market, new demand ?
A Blue Ocean Strategy and product innovation will require FREQUENT and ITERATIVE renewal. For some industry, it may require shorter cycles.
Besides Prof. W. Chan Kim and Prof. Renee Mauborgne’ s Blue Ocean Strategy, Prof. Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation concept also look at this problem. The Bigger the Company, The Bigger the risk they have when comes to ignoring smaller companies, newly disrupted approach, new entrants. Apple mobile phone and tablet business was not around 5 years ago.