Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level

Derek Newberry — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:34:26 -0500

Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of 'EcoForge', an investment advisory and consulting firm for social and environmental venture funds.

In this post, Gubbi responds to Allen Hammond's series on taking Base of the Pyramid models to scale. This week, NextBillion.net will publish responses from a number of BoP experts and practitioners, followed by a concluding post from Hammond.

By Sagar Gubbi

When I first read the BoP article by C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart three years ago, it triggered several thoughts in my mind and I remember having endless discussions with my friends on the ideas put forth in the article. Reading through Allen Hammond's posts this week on ‘Transformative Sector Strategies', I have experienced a sense of déjà vu, with a lot of thoughts being triggered in my mind all over again. If the work carried out by people like C.K. Prahalad, Stuart Hart and others was responsible for triggering widespread interest in the BoP, WRI's model, outlined in Al's posts, has the potential to take it to the next level.

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Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level