Q1: Fast food giants like McDonald’s and Jollibee have french fries as part of their popular value meal, what made you and your partners decide to launch a solo product, french fries, via your Potato Corner kiosks? In 1992, we did not know any better. We just thought it was a good idea because flavored popcorn was doing well and […]
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Q1: You have expanded from a shirt brand to a tourism brand. Please tell us what was the insight that led to this transformation? I first got the idea to go into the business of selling souvenir shirts from my travels – shirts were and continue to be the preferred souvenir as they’re light and practical. But many of the […]
Q1: What made you decide to open a wholesale operation in Zamboanga? We felt there was an untapped potential and there was a big opportunity for the BIG BOX model in Zamboanga. Our primary target market were the sari-sari store owners wherein we feel they can be better served than simply offering them credit terms and low prices. We moved […]
I recently attended a kid’s fashion show at SMX Aura, a welcome break from my business conference routine. I learned that from 3,000 entries, 50 kids were shortlisted and trained to walk the runway. They were all so cute. I suddenly entertained the idea of wanting to be a grandfather. In the meantime, my family will have to make-do with […]
As a student of lifelong learning, I always search for ideas and knowledge as well as great minds and conversations to challenge my ways of thinking. I like seeing white spaces of opportunities for new methods, new frameworks and new possibilities. I was especially intellectually stimulated with a concept of a strategy book in the mid 2000s and was so […]
Most corporate growth strategies are built on a dangerous, unexamined assumption. Executives design ten-year expansion plans, real estate developments, and product pipelines under the premise that the traditional Filipino family structure is permanent. But strategy can break because of an obsolete demographic map. A structural revolution is quietly rewriting consumer behavior across the Philippines. The traditional expectation of marriage and […]
Why Systemic Alignment Across the Strategy Links Beats Isolated Tactics Every Time I walked into a Pop Mart store in Shanghai and saw something unexpected: a Chinese company had built a global consumer brand around something most businesses struggle to manufacture: emotion. The shelves were filled with collectible figures. Customers were examining boxes, anticipating what might be inside, comparing figures, […]
Author’s Note: This is an expanded version of last Friday’s article on the value proposition as a contract for relevance. When companies fail to deliver on their value proposition, the usual explanation is poor execution. Sales overpromised. Operations underdelivered. Customer service failed to manage expectations. Sometimes that is true. But when the same failures repeat across markets, teams, and leadership cycles, […]
What Shanghai’s invisible operating system teaches us about removing barriers, building trust, and creating systems that scale By Josiah Go Shanghai, July 14–18, 2026 I arrived in Shanghai expecting to be reacquainted with the skyline. After all, this is a city of futuristic towers, luxury districts, and the historic Bund overlooking the Huangpu River. But after several days on the […]
Data is one of the most overvalued commodities in modern business. We are currently drowning in statistics, yet many organizations are starving for Insight. Data tells you whathappened; observation tells you how it happened. But only an insight tells you why it happened in a way that allows you to transform the future. To find it, one must move beyond […]