The position of Design4Billions in the Global Village
New corporate strategies
The Global Village creates opportunities for new corporate strategies. Markets and employees at a distant come close to each other and can now develop products and services in order to serve each other. There is a sharp distinction in strategy of the corporations, which is related to the direction of the supply chain. When the supply chain runs from the western world to emerging markets, we talk about Design4Billions or Sustainable local entrepreneurship, where the first is related to products for emerging markets and the last to services for emerging markets. When the supply chain runs from emerging markets to the western world, we principally deal with products, no service-examples were found yet. The products with a supply chain the from emerging markets to the western world can be described with the collective term: fair trade products.Western world > Emerging markets
Design4Billions (products)Sustainable local entrepreneurship (services)
Emerging markets > Western world
Fair Trade (products). . .
This Knowledge Framework focussed on the supply chain, which runs from the western world to emerging
markets. The major focus is on Design4Billions, replenished with a minor focus on Sustainable local enterpreneurship,
since products often requires a service that matches the product concept.
Inclusive Design
Inclusive Design is the process whereby designers and manufacturers ensure that their product
and services address the needs of the widest possible audience.
In the Industrial design sector, Inclusive Design is best known in two social and demographic trends: the design
effects of an ageing population and design that addresses the needs of disabled people. Design4Billions, which is
a new trend in the Industrial design sector, exactly fits the definition of Inclusive Design: the designers and
manufacturers include the poorest people in the world in the audience of their products and services.
In strategy and business literature, the trend in Design4Billions, is already known as
Inclusive Capitalism. Both arguments make it
logical to see Design4Billions as a type of Inclusive Design.
Include, the international conference about
Inclusive Design.
