These modern Avon Ladies – and Avon Men - of Africa are helping pioneer a new age of product and service delivery for the poor with a truly age-old model – door to door, and village to village.
The most important cultural trend impacting retail today is that in just the last ten years or so, coinciding with Amazon's growth and propelled by Bezos' keen strategic vision, the age-old model where people had to go to the store to buy something has been cut.
Consequently, the age-old model of treating symptoms will give way to more holistic solutions that involve early diagnosis of disease, methods that can predict future ailments, efforts to prevent disease in the first place and ongoing monitoring of patients to ensure medical intervention takes place at an early stage when it is generally cheaper to do so.
But while the effect of the digital revolution on brick-and-mortar retail has been considerable, as the dust begins to settle we see that this age-old model is undeniably here to stay.
Arizmendi and its five sister bakeries in the Bay Area are worker-owned cooperatives, an age-old business model that has lately attracted renewed interest as a possible antidote to some of our most persistent economic ills.
"We're building a platform that merges virtual and physical play". Though Nukotoys is among a growing cluster of game companies reaching beyond the virtual and giving players something tangible, it relies on an age-old, proven business model -- card collecting.
The Relay, New Beetle and E Class, for example, are aging, older models; the Pontiac G6, while fairly new, isn't a big seller in the segment for family cars.
So for the moment, Ms. Merchant is back to the age-old economic model of the troubadour.
Now, a decade later, millennial and Gen Z workers are taking up the torch, furthering many of the major shifts already underway in the age-old employment model.
This age-old innovation model is indeed not only set aside by the dominant appropriation and incentive mechanisms set out by IPR tools, but it is also pushed into illegality by those rules solely pertaining to the regulation of the "formal" seed market.
In the end, the age-old parish model, or neighborhood church is still the healthiest option.
