Making a choice
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos while addressing a class at Princeton said “We are what we choose“. Incidentally, I was reading Sheena Iyenger’s ‘Art of Choosing‘ and she is someone who is known as an expert on...
View ArticleToo much feeback
Scott Anthony in an HBR article asks a very relevant question in the Innovation Process: Are you giving too much and may be contradictory feedback to the ideas before they are presented to the ultimate...
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3 Boxes to Manage…
Vijay Govindarajan’s HBR interview mentions three boxes that a CEO needs to take care of. I just loved this idea, and this picture says it all: Try it ! The post 3 Boxes to Manage… appeared first on...
View ArticleSpending time with the customer
MIX carries an article on the management trainee training program of Hindustan Unilever Ltd in India. As a part of this program, trainees spend substantial time in the rural India, participating in...
View ArticleCurrent Innovation Practices
My friend Dr Vinay Dabholkar talks about the Current practices being followed for Innovation in his blog post. Vinay is somone I really respect for his knowledge and his openness to hear the contrary...
View ArticleManaging Innovation Portfolio
Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff in their HBR Article Managing Your Innovation Portfolio say that innovation portfolio should look at a 2 X2 matrix defined by the core of the organization and market it...
View ArticleBring the focus back on the customer
My friend Arun Kottolli in his blog post Improving Innovation with Increased Customer Awareness hits the nail on why so many innovations are failing today. This also links to what we addressed in the...
View ArticleMatch Innovation to Desired Outcome
Vijay Govindarajan and Mark Sebell in their HBR article Match Your Innovation Process to the results you want very precisely tell you when you should use top down and when you should use bottom up...
View ArticleInnovation in Global Times
Global geographic spread of the companies is the standard reality as much as the Innovation is. Traditionally companies tend to have their Innovation teams co-located in one location even when teams...
View ArticleManaging Homeless Ideas
Alessandro Di Fiore in his HBR Article Getting Crazy Ideas off the Ground primarily sites two examples of corporate funds at P&G and Samsung Electronics that fund the ideas that have no clear...
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