Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value
In this book, Ted London, Stuart L. Hart, and nine leading BoP thought and practice leaders show how to apply today's most significant BoP innovations, techniques, and business models. London, Hart, and their contributors go beyond providing low-cost products and extending distribution reach, demonstrating how to promote market development, innovation, and capability creation "with" BoP new customers, not "at" them. Readers will learn how to reconceptualize their opportunities, create sustainable business ecosystems, design new technologies with BoP in mind, and even transform entire sectors through collaborative entrepreneurship. From start to finish, this book shares proven, "on-the-ground" insights for building scalable, profitable businesses that are sustainable, and truly can help alleviate social ills.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Dedication to C.K. Prahalad
The Big Picture by C.K. Prahalad
Foreword by Y.C. Deveshwar
Introduction: Creating a Fortune with the Base of the Pyramid
PART ONE: ROADMAPS FOR SUCCESS
- Building Better Ventures with the Base of the Pyramid: A Roadmap
- Innovation for the BoP: The Patient Capital Approach
PART TWO: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES
- Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid
- Needs, Needs, Everywhere, But Not a BoP Market to Tap
PART THREE: EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION
- A Micro-Level Approach to Understanding BoP Markets
- Reframing Design for the Base of the Pyramid
- BoP Venture Formation for Scale
Appendix: Attendees from 2009 Conference: Creating a Shared Roadmap
Index
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Salient Features
- Better ways to sustainably, profitably "do business with four billion" and alleviate social ills.
- What works, what hasn't: hard-won lessons from experience.
- Beyond sales and distribution: building markets, promoting innovation, deepening collaboration.
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