2021 saw the developed world and some of the developing countries succeed with the massive rollout of vaccination to deal with the COVID...

I was recently asked for advice by a friend regarding buying a DSLR camera. He was getting a wonderful offer. He always wanted to take...

In 2006, Nokia commenced production of its mobile phones in India with a lot of fanfare. They brought in the best manufacturing...

Puppetry remains a fascinating art, a thoroughly enjoyed event that has few masters. You marvel at the skill of the artist in...

Puppetry remains one of the fascinating art, a thoroughly enjoyed event that has few masters. You marvel at the skill of the artist in...

When I see the advertisement from one of the online investment platforms like Groww etc., I wonder why this didn’t come from an...

Note: I have avoided references to names of companies or locals on purpose. I have also avoided pictures of unsustainable practices on...

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!...

Insulin to treat diabetes had been in use since 1920s. While there was constant product development, including the massive one of...

I love the idea of EVs but find the entire movement intriguing. Like a lot of things of the current era, this movement seems to be built...

Lessons for corporates on innovation Ola, a company that started as a copy of Uber, launched its electric scooters on Independence day....

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...