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Innovation triggers to look out for - Complex offers

Krishnan Naganathan

3 days ago
4 min

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 boards are very supportive of innovation efforts. But how good are you at recognizing the smoke that indicates that innovation is now a priority? An analysis of the great organizations that have failed to survive disruption in their industry, will show that even great organizations can fail to see the danger signals or grab disruption opportu

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Innovation triggers to look out

Krishnan Naganathan

5 days ago
3 min

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 are you at recognizing the smoke that indicates that innovation is now a priority? An analysis of the great organizations that have not survived disruption in their industry, will show that even great organizations can fail to see the danger signals or grab disruption opportunities. The early warning signs that you and your industry should be

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Why large organisations struggle to innovate

Krishnan Naganathan

Jan 12
3 min

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, they have a brand, they have customers to provide insights and they quite often generate great ideas. However, very few organizations seem to succeed with innovations. Startups on the other hand have little resources. They lack the people strength of large organizations, they struggle to reach customers, they don’t have a brand recognition an

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Innovation in an existing market

Krishnan Naganathan

Jan 11
2 min

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 matching a problem and solution. Any innovation, hence, involves deep knowledge of both a problem and a solution. Innovation can be classified into two broad categories, push innovation and pull innovation, based on where you start from, problem or solution. If an organization identifies a real customer problem/need first, and then search for

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Avoid serendipity in innovation!

Krishnan Naganathan

Jan 7
4 min

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 process I regularly get asked how easy is to create disruption in existing markets. Our markets are actually full of such examples. Take the case of the airline industry, an elitist product that has transformed over the last few decades. From the days when only the rich could travel, the industry has seen emergence of new aviation model, a t

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Innovation - Stop waiting for the Eureka Moment

Krishnan Naganathan

Jan 4
4 min

Innovation - Stop waiting for the Eureka Moment

Recently, the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, repeated his call for India Inc to innovate. He is amongst a large group of world leaders who have been consistently calling for innovation to meet strategic goals of the world, including the UN SDG goals. By now it should be clear to most business leaders that innovation is essential not only for their own longevity but also for the planet to remain sustainable. However, the world continues to struggle with innovation

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Building faith in consultants

Krishnan Naganathan

Jul 25, 2019
2 min

Building faith in consultants

We have observed that categories of “non customers” exist for consulting companies as well. The first category are companies who have used a consultant in the past and will never use one again due to a bad experience. The second are companies which have needs but are vary of consultants; they have heard too many consultant jokes, have heard stories of bad experience or misunderstand the role consultants play (suited booted people with fancy degrees, charging fancy fees for ad

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