Book description
3 extraordinary books show how to build “bottom of the pyramid” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and profitable!
Three remarkable books help you overcome the pitfalls of “bottom of the pyramid” business, learn from the pioneers’ successes and failures, and build “BoP” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and consistently profitable! In Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation, Eric Kacou shows how to escape the “survival trap” that keeps many BoP businesses small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Drawing on his unique on-the-ground experience in Africa’s most challenging business environments, Kacou identifies new business models, operational techniques, and leadership approaches that can help BoP businesses grow rapidly and successfully. In Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, Ted London and Stuart L. Hart share proven, “on-the-ground” insights for building “Base of the Pyramid” businesses that really are sustainable and green, really will help alleviate social ills, and really can scale. Finally, in Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, Third Edition, Hart offers an up-to-the-minute primer on sustainable business for today’s executives, practical insights into what’s working and what isn’t, and expert insights for crafting and executing your company’s optimal sustainability strategy.
From world-renowned leaders in successful bottom-of-the-pyramid business innovation, includingTed London, Stuart L. Hart, and Eric Kacou.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
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Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation
- Dedication
- Contents
- Praise for Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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Part I. Foundations or Why Mindsets Matter
- Prologue: Transformation in BoP Markets: Learning from Rwanda
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1. Identifying the Problem—And the Solution
- Pretoria, South Africa: Themba, CEO Who Can’t Collect
- Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya: Mariam, Microentrepreneur Who Must Choose between Feeding Her Children and Feeding Her Business
- Santiago, Chile: Jaime, International Executive Who Has to Please Everyone
- Kingston, Jamaica: Lisa, Business Leader Whose Industry Is Struggling
- Abuja, Nigeria: Ijeoma, Government Leader Who Can’t Help Feeling Like a Beggar
- Washington, DC: Rob, Development Partner Can’t Work Self Out of Job
- The Core Problem: Caught in The Survival Trap
- Getting at the Essence of The Survival Trap from a Stakeholder’s Perspective
- BoP Markets as the Biggest Untapped Business Opportunity
- The Case of Africa: Islands of Opportunity in a Sea of Challenges
- The Solution
- Why Business Must Lead BoP Nations out of The Survival Trap
- Building Partnerships That Transcend The Survival Trap
- Practical Solutions for Escaping The Survival Trap
- The Approach
- Endnotes
- 2. Rwanda’s Metamorphosis
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3. Why Mindsets Matter
- The Battle for the Minds
- Minister Diallo’s Outburst
- The Biggest Elephant in the Room
- Defining Mindset
- Characterizing Mental Models
- Misconceptions about Mindset Change
- Seven Opportunities to Escape The Survival Trap
- The Essence-Principles-Practices Framework
- Winning the Battle for the Minds
- Reclaiming the Citadel
- The Real Problem—Escaping The Survival Trap
- Stuck in The Survival Trap
- Toward a Shared Vision for Haiti
- Rebuilding Haiti
- Endnotes
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Part II. Solutions to Escape The Survival Trap
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4. A Framework to Escape The Survival Trap
- Crisis Time
- Free One-Way Ticket Survival
- Action Framework, Mindsets, and Business Models
- Strategic Approaches to Integrate Mindset Change to Business Models
- Leveraging the DARE Strategic Approaches
- The DARE Process
- Stage 1: Audit Current Situation
- Stage 2: Articulate DARE Strategy
- Stage 3: Upgrade Business Model
- Stage 4: Execute Quick Wins and Actions
- Stage 5: Reflect and Redesign
- Some Practical Considerations on the DARE Process
- The DARE Process in Action
- Reconciliation and Prosperity
- Entrepreneurial Epic
- Shaping to One’s Operating Reality
- Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity
- From Success to Significance
- Endnotes
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5. Foster an Archimedean Mindset
- Connecting the Neighborhood
- Closed Doors
- Survival Business
- Keeping the Doors Shut
- Recognizing the Archimedean Mindset
- Fostering an Archimedean Mindset
- Enabling Archimedean Businesspeople
- Cash and Credit
- Trial by Fire
- Building a Foundation
- The Paradox of Trust
- An Archimedean Entrepreneur
- Africa’s Pioneer of Prosperity
- Endnotes
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6. Build Trust
- Against the Odds
- A Late Bloomer
- Broken Bridges
- Fixing Broken Bridges
- The Trust Ladder
- Climbing the Trust Ladder
- Building a Mosaic of Trust
- Dealing in Trust
- Embracing the Healthcare Challenge
- Taking on the “Silent Killers”
- Integrating Risk Management and Compassion
- Entrepreneurial Solutions for Healthcare
- I Live
- Endnotes
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7. Focus on Solutions
- Diop, Zero...
- Persisting in Supplying the Survival Products
- Why Do Businesses Persist in Supplying Survival Products?
- ...Mo, One!
- Redefining Value Through Design Thinking
- Focusing on Solutions
- Virtuous Cycle of Innovative Solutions
- Toward a Solution Paradigm
- A Fighting Chance for Diop
- Kerosene: The Dark Light
- Out of the Darkness
- Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation
- Keeping the Commitment
- Nuru Energy: Value-Added Design
- Lighting Africa
- Endnotes
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8. Operate Efficiently and Sustainably
- Changing Colors
- Standing on Quicksand
- A Difficult Operating Reality
- Keeping the Eyes on the Wrong Prize
- The Wrong Thinking
- Deming Meet Hardin
- Climbing Out of Quicksand
- Efficient and Sustainable Operations in Practice
- A Comforting Outlook
- A Struggling Industry
- Inception of a Turnaround
- Enabling a Prosperity Ecosystem
- Starting with the Operating Reality
- Endnotes
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9. Enable Prosperity Ecosystems
- Miracle in Tunisia
- Nurturing the Fruit Flies
- What Mindsets Prevent the Emergence of Ecosystems?
- A Stifling Operating Reality
- Interconnectedness as the Essence of Prosperity Ecosystems
- Enabling Prosperity Ecosystems
- Collaboration in Action
- Prosperity Ecosystems in the Marketplace
- Miracles and Wonders
- Defying Gravity
- Opportunity Mindset
- Raizcorp or Incubation 2.0 for BoP Nations
- Opportunities for Incubation
- Nobel Prize Material?
- Endnotes
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10. Seek Intelligent Capital
- Jacob’s Dilemma
- Scarce All Around
- What Is Intelligent Capital?
- What Keeps Intelligent Capital Elusive?
- Diagnose the Mindsets That Keep Intelligent Capital Elusive
- Resource-Oriented Thinking
- Building Solutions, Not Exits
- Intelligent Capital Partners Align Incentives to Transform Business Models
- The Returns on Intelligent Capital
- Intelligent Capital in Action
- Intelligent Capital and Key Investments
- Straddling BoP and Developed Markets
- New Technology, Timeless Values
- UST Value-Driven Business Model
- UST Global an Archimedean Firm
- Profitability through Values
- Endnotes
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11. Bridge the Leadership Gap
- A Bittersweet Promotion
- Turnaround Through a Human-Centered Repositioning
- Critical Leadership Gaps
- Survival Business Revisited
- Personal Costs of Survival Business
- The Leadership Gap
- What Mindsets Sustain the Leadership Gap?
- Diagnosing Mindsets That Create the Leadership Gap
- Bridging the Leadership Gap
- The Rewards for Bridging the Leadership Gap
- Rewriting the Rules of the Game
- Accidental Entrepreneur
- Betting Against the Odds
- Redefining the African Entrepreneur
- Turning the Tide
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4. A Framework to Escape The Survival Trap
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Part III. Integration
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12. Insights on Mindset Change from Public Health
- Missing in Action
- A Trap of a Different Kind
- Social Marketing and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
- Creating Social Change for Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity
- Leveraging Social Marketing for Entrepreneurial Solutions to Prosperity
- Best Practices from Social Marketing
- Social Marketing to Unleash Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets
- No Shortcuts to Prosperity
- Forum Theatre to Fight HIV/AIDS
- Drawing Inspiration from One’s Reality
- Reinventing HIV/AIDS Prevention
- Mindset Change Through Participation
- Reinventing HIV Prevention
- Endnotes
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13. Societal Innovations Through Mindset Change
- Turning Back the Hands of Time
- A Fresh Look at The Survival Trap
- What Levers Must Mindset Change Efforts for Africa Focus On?
- Energy: The Dark Continent
- Population: Young, Crowded, and Divided
- Environment: A Ubiquitous Challenge
- Technology: Beyond the Digital Divide
- Markets: Failures All Around
- Fast Forward
- Endnotes
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14. Rwanda’s Homegrown Solutions
- Zen Revelations
- Rwanda’s Homegrown Solutions
- Beyond Relief Toward Prosperity
- A Mindset-Driven Metamorphosis
- A Leadership Mindset of Innovation and Competitiveness in Rwanda
- Creating a Mindset of a Shared Future in Its People
- Opportunity 1—Foster an Archimedean Mindset
- Opportunity 2—Build Trust
- Opportunity 3—Focus on Solutions
- Opportunity 4—Enable Prosperity Ecosystems
- Opportunity 5—Operate Efficiently and Sustainably
- Opportunity 6—Seek Intelligent Capital
- Opportunity 7—Bridge the Leadership Gap
- No Excuses for Africa
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12. Insights on Mindset Change from Public Health
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Epilogue: A Call to Action: Embrace Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity
- What Are Enterprise-Based Solutions to Poverty?
- What Stakeholders Must Embrace Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity?
- Themba: The Local Entrepreneur
- Jaime: Business Managers
- Ijeoma: Government Leaders
- Rob: Development Partners
- Civil Society
- Upgrading Africa’s Prosperity Software
- A Path out of The Survival Trap
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
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Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value
- Contents
- Praise for Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- The Big Picture
- Foreword
- Chapter . Introduction: Creating a Fortune with the Base of the Pyramid
- Part One: Roadmaps for Success
- Part Two: Strategic Opportunities
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Part Three: Effective Implementation
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Chapter 5. A Microlevel Approach to Understanding BoP Marketplaces
- The BOP and Multifaceted Deprivation
- The BOP Marketplaces
- Local Sustainability
- Learning from BOP Contexts
- Researching and Understanding BOP Contexts
- Designing Sustainable Solutions for the BOP
- Communicating and Delivering Sustainable Value
- Implementing Enterprise Solutions for the BOP
- Ingraining Social Good in Organizations
- The “What” of BoP Marketplaces: Context and Characteristics at the Micro Level
- What This Means: Developing Understanding of BoP Marketplaces
- The How: Designing Solutions for BoP Marketplaces
- Implications for Commercial and Social Enterprises
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Reframing Design for the Base of the Pyramid
- Chapter 7. BoP Venture Formation for Scale
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Chapter 5. A Microlevel Approach to Understanding BoP Marketplaces
- Conclusion: A Continuing Journey
- Attendees at the “Creating a Shared Roadmap” Conference
- Index
- Financial Times Press
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Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World
- Contents
- Praise for Capitalism at the Crossroads
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States
- Foreword: Fisk Johnson, Chairman and CEO, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
- Part One. Mapping the Terrain
- Part Two. Beyond Greening
- Part Three. Becoming Indigenous
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Index
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Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Preface: Consumer Safari
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Part I. The African Opportunity
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1. Baking Bread in Zimbabwe
- African Wealth: The Tenth Largest Economy in the World
- A Different Type of Oil and Diamonds
- An Irish Beer Finds Its Future in Africa
- An Inflection Point
- Looking East: The New Gold Rush
- Entrepreneurship Is Alive and Well in Africa
- Trade Not Aid
- The Need for Leadership
- Africa’s Rise: Hidden in Plain Sight
- Inexplicable Optimism
- Rising Opportunities
- 2. Africa Is Richer Than You Think
- 3. The Power of Africa Two
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1. Baking Bread in Zimbabwe
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Part II. Realizing the Opportunity
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4. Harnessing the Hanouti: Opportunities in Organizing the Market
- Organizing the Market
- Organizing Retail: Shopping in Alexandra
- Opportunities from Making the Informal Formal
- Tokunbo: Organizing Secondhand
- Organizing Distribution
- Organizing Medicine
- Organizing Transportation
- Organizing Brands and Marketing
- Creating Brands from Commodities
- Organizing Education and Training
- The Power of Organizing Markets
- Rising Opportunities
- 5. Building Mama Habiba an Ice Factory: Opportunities in Infrastructure
- 6. Running with the Cheetah Generation: Opportunities in Africa’s Youth Market
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7. Hello to Nollywood: Opportunities in Media and Entertainment
- The Accidental Nigerian Film Industry
- Theaters That Don’t Look Like Theaters
- Television and Radio: Beyond Two Channels
- The Small Screen
- Print and Online
- The Walls Can Talk
- Third Eye
- Chopped Dollars and Other Surprises of African Technology and Media
- Pirates of Jo’burg
- From Michael Power to Media Power
- Our Stories Are Your Stories
- Rising Opportunities
- 8. Coming Home: Opportunities in the African Diaspora
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4. Harnessing the Hanouti: Opportunities in Organizing the Market
- Conclusion: Ubuntu Market
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Africa Rising
Product information
- Title: Business Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid (Collection)
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2011
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132808538
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