Business Solution to Poverty Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers

Name: Business Solution to Poverty Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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ISBN: 9781609940775

ISBN-10: 1609940776

ISBN-13: 9781609940775

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul Polak, Mal Warwick

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The fact is none of the well-meaning anti-poverty initiatives to date have achieved much –there are 2.7 billion people today living on $2 a day or less, more than the entire population of the world in 1950. Paul Polak and Mal Warwick argue that the way to help these people is not to view them as victims or as charity cases, but as customers whose needs the market can serve effectively and profitably, without exploitation. In fact, Polak has been doing it for years.The key is to design products and services explicitly for this market—not cheapened versions of products designed for more affluent markets—an approach called Zero-Based Design. Polak and Warwick spell out, step by step, the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Mal Warwick, consultant, author, and public speaker, is the founder of Mal Warwick Associates and three related companies that provide a wide range of fundraising and marketing services to nonprofitclients throughout North America. Warwick has written or edited 18 books including Revolution in the Mailbox, The Five Strategiesfor Fundraising Success, and Fundraising on the Internet. He teaches fundraising throughout the world and chairs the Global Resource Alliance, which promotes civil society worldwide. Find more information on Mal and his books at www.malwarwick.com and www.josseybass.com/go/warwick.