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In 2006, Nokia commenced production of its mobile phones in India with a lot of fanfare. They brought in the best manufacturing...
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Nov 15, 20213 min read
Puppetry of Innovation - Distinguishing features of innovators who drive growth through innovation
Puppetry remains a fascinating art, a thoroughly enjoyed event that has few masters. You marvel at the skill of the artist in...
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Nov 15, 20213 min read
Puppetry of innovation - Introduction
Puppetry remains one of the fascinating art, a thoroughly enjoyed event that has few masters. You marvel at the skill of the artist in...
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Nov 12, 20213 min read
Gathering New Ideas to Drive Growth
When I see the advertisement from one of the online investment platforms like Groww etc., I wonder why this didn’t come from an...
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Sep 14, 20214 min read
Strategy and Strategy Making
The CEO of one of my SME clients remarked at the end of our engagement that for the first time he realized strategy could be a process!...
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Sep 8, 20214 min read
Exploring innovation opportunities through sprints
Insulin to treat diabetes had been in use since 1920s. While there was constant product development, including the massive one of...
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Aug 18, 20216 min read
Welcome Ola S1!
Lessons for corporates on innovation Ola, a company that started as a copy of Uber, launched its electric scooters on Independence day....
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Jul 15, 20214 min read
The dangers of a lack of innovation agenda
I was lucky to be in the audience and hear Sridhar Vembu of Zoho talk about the priorities of Indian companies and the nations as such....
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Jun 25, 20212 min read
Disrupt your own business!
Magnus Penker has a habit of saying that all Hollywood stories have one of two themes; a stranger comes and changes things or you go on a...
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Jun 24, 20213 min read
Strategy and Innovation
Traditional approach to strategy management in business organizations refer strategy to mean corporate strategy (“What business should we...
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Apr 27, 20213 min read
To Innovate or to be Innovative
In organizations there are many things that you have to execute and some things for which you have to build capability. Take for example...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Scan your horizon to innovate
Throughout my life I have been a voracious reader. As a kid, I took to reading history and books on the world war (non-fiction books)...
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
Have you designed your growth strategy?
We have had a year of pandemic and a new financial year has started in India. As a leadership team you would have probably gone through a...
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Apr 13, 20213 min read
Digitalisation and Innovation
Organizations are spending enormous resources on “digital transformation”. Do we understand what digital transformation means and how...
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Apr 12, 20213 min read
Innovation triggers to look out - Over-priced and under- priced offers
This is part 3 of a multi part article. Read earlier parts here - https://bit.ly/3s2T7PH and https://bit.ly/3dMGvqG Every organization...
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Apr 9, 20214 min read
Innovation triggers to look out for - Complex offers
This is part 2 of a multiple part article. Part 1 can be read here: https://bit.ly/3s2T7PH Every organization wants to innovate and the...
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Apr 6, 20213 min read
Innovation triggers to look out
Part 1 of a 3 part article Every organization wants to innovate and the boards are very supportive of innovation efforts. But how good...
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Jan 12, 20213 min read
Why large organisations struggle to innovate
Big organizations appear to have everything that takes to succeed with innovation. They have resources, they have leadership bandwidth,...
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Jan 11, 20212 min read
Innovation in an existing market
Part 2 on removing serendipity in innovation The key to innovation is a process of marrying ideation and commercialization and is about...
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Jan 7, 20214 min read
Avoid serendipity in innovation!
This is part 1 of a series where I share my thoughts on how to delink innovation from sparks of great inspiration and make it a reliable...
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