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....

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...

Traditional approach to strategy management in business organizations refer strategy to mean corporate strategy (“What business should we...

The second wave of the COVID pandemic in India has revealed one important thing that was missed; long term scenario planning. All the...

David Snowden (not Edward), the man behind the Cynefin framework, had some very useful advice for leaders when dealing with COVID...

In organizations there are many things that you have to execute and some things for which you have to build capability. Take for example...

In many conversations on strategy using the 3 horizon approach, I infer that corporates relate long term focus to new market...

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)...

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...

Organizations are spending enormous resources on “digital transformation”. Do we understand what digital transformation means and how...

This is part 3 of a multi part article. Read earlier parts here - https://bit.ly/3s2T7PH and https://bit.ly/3dMGvqG Every organization...

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...

Part 1 of a 3 part article Every organization wants to innovate and the boards are very supportive of innovation efforts. But how good...

Innovation is the buzzword today and everyone talks about it. One of the unfortunate consequences is that Creativity and Innovation are...

This is a follow up on my post on active and passive innovation. There were plenty of queries on active innovation and hence this follow...

In today’s world everyone wants to innovate. Every board and every Chief executive, indeed every leader says we need to innovate. Yet few...

Recently I heard a veteran consultant, muse loudly that many of the large organizations and groups are struggling to innovate, despite...

In life failures fall into one of two types; one because we didn’t plan and two because of uncertainty. Let me do a simple illustration....

In his book #PlayBold Magnus Penker identifies capabilities as the first key ingredient of organizations that are successful innovators....

A great discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of very problem George Polya, 1944 Here is an...