Disruptive Leadership

This is an ongoing discussion on the 10 guiding principles of starting a new business in China (or re-starting your business if the case may be).  Here we explore the first principle:
Develop a comprehensive government relations program for both the Chinese and U.S. governments.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have embraced capitalism and open [...]

A little while ago I wrote an article on “10 things you must do to win in emerging markets.” China is still considered an emerging market for technology products, given that the majority of the people still live and work in areas outside the reach of technology (mobile phones being, or at least becoming, the [...]

For the month of October, I have decided to highlight a company as the Disruptive Leader of the Month. NComputing has been on my radar for awhile as one of the few for-profit startup companies that are targeting emerging markets and the digital divide, but I had not looked at them as a serious [...]

The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]

I have mentioned Safaricom in this blog several times as an example of a classic disruptive leader and touted their M-Pesa text-based payment system as a game-changing service targeting the bottom of the pyramid (BOP).  But a recent article in the International Herald Times showcases the challenges this service and others face.  In truth, any [...]