Monthly Archives: August, 2012

45 Million People Are Blind today, and 80% of them could be cured through surgery (36 million if you’re looking for your calculator). Oh, of course, most of these people cannot afford the surgery, don’t know about it, cannot physically be where eye care is available, and so on and so on. The answer? Reverse Innovation (RI) – a term coined by Jeffrey Immelt and Vijay Govindarajan. The basic premise of RI is that all innovation cannot flow from the developed to the developing world.

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The catalyst for the crash seems to be the IPOs of Groupon and Facebook. The IPOs were initially greeted with fanfare and pageantry and then BOOM! CRASH! They resulted in a botched IPO and accounting issues. And now we have a giant mess sitting in our laps.

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Two weeks ago we talked about some of the techniques that can help launch a successful Spend Analysis (SA) project. This week we’ll focus on answering some of the tougher questions we get asked.

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So the 20th century went by with mass everything: mass marketing, mass consumerism, mass production. As long as we could do it faster, cheaper, and produce more we felt like we were making progress, things were moving forward. But now the 21st century has dawned. And what a change that has brought.

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Last week we introduced some next practice thinking around Spend Analysis. This week we will talk about some of the techniques that can help launch a successful Spend Analysis project.

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