Category Archives: Management

Management – the art and science of how to’s. This is all about management that liberates: compelling essays on the art and science of managing sustainable, inclusive and integrated socio-economic development.

IngmingAberia.com’s management – the art and science of how to’s consist mostly of management stories that depict concrete application of acquired knowledge on the lives of people, particularly the poor who need external support the most. They are sourced from personal and collective experiences. They are enriched by scanning existing literature on this field and mining nuggets of wisdom from experts.

Plots and sub-plots of these stories take on broad topics related to project management as well as on community participation process, particularly on facilitating collective decision-making.

Still Evolving, Science Gropes for Answers

(Also published by The Manila Times on 11 April 2020) A NEW study suggests that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)-causing virus can travel distances way beyond government’s spread-prevention physical distancing protocol of 1 meter. It shakes the grounding on which strategies to control the pandemic stands. An Agence France-Presse (AFP) report says, “the researchers, led… Read More »

More culture, less law

(Also published by The Manila Times on 18 March 2020.) MY neighborhood in an inner barangay (village) of Imus, Cavite has had progress in somehow easing the flow of vehicular traffic (consisting mostly of motorcycles, tricycles and private cars) by applying more self-discipline and relying less on traffic enforcers. I must hasten to mention that… Read More »

Let’s Recolor Our World

A 40-MINUTE or so wait for a bus ride from Imus, Cavite that would take me to Lawton, Manila often gets me to digress to something many commuters go through while they feel public transportation has abandoned them — to consider paying more for alternative modes of transport (e.g., Grab, taxi, Angkas, car pooling, etc.).… Read More »

Takeaways from “Traslacion 2020”

THIS year’s Traslacion, relived just days ago, was probably the most orderly in recent years, as indicated, for example, in 1) the relatively short time (16 hours) it took the procession to “transport” the Black Nazarene from the Luneta Grandstand at the Rizal Park in Manila to its home (Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene)… Read More »

Enterprise suggestions for LGUs

Still on the topic of the area model approach to development, about which I discussed in broad terms in previous columns (please see “Fault lines of PH Economy” [November 20, 2019] and “If Rural Philippines Mattered…” [November 27, 2019])as the best vehicle by which the country’s economic development can be made more inclusive and sustainable,… Read More »

SEO 101

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a complicated technique to master, even for webmasters. I am not a webmaster, so please take at face value what I am going to share with you today. Try to google search “seo” and the top four results will likely show, in ascending order, three google advertisements (by Adwords),… Read More »

Open Government Contracting

A relatively new discipline pertaining to procurement and contracting bodes well for government and other organizations that spend public funds, such as non-government organizations. This emerging field is called Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), developed in 2014 by the World Bank with support from the Omidyar Network. OCDS, according to open-contracting.org, is an open data… Read More »