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What's keeping CEO's up at night: Insights from C-Suite Challenge 2021
2021 saw the developed world and some of the developing countries succeed with the massive rollout of vaccination to deal with the COVID...
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Jan 27, 20224 min read
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Ensure your offerings are relevant in the market
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...
krishnan62
Jan 18, 20224 min read
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Doing Things Right and Doing the Right Thing
In 2006, Nokia commenced production of its mobile phones in India with a lot of fanfare. They brought in the best manufacturing...
krishnan62
Dec 14, 20214 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Nov 15, 20213 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Nov 15, 20213 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Nov 12, 20213 min read
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Unsustainability Kills!
Note: I have avoided references to names of companies or locals on purpose. I have also avoided pictures of unsustainable practices on...
krishnan62
Oct 16, 20214 min read
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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!...
krishnan62
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Sep 8, 20214 min read
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EV is a long haul!
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...
krishnan62
Aug 31, 20213 min read
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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....
krishnan62
Aug 18, 20216 min read
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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....
krishnan62
Jul 15, 20214 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Jun 25, 20212 min read
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Strategy and Innovation
Traditional approach to strategy management in business organizations refer strategy to mean corporate strategy (“What business should we...
krishnan62
Jun 24, 20213 min read
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Likely Future Scenario of the Pandemic in India
The second wave of the COVID pandemic in India has revealed one important thing that was missed; long term scenario planning. All the...
krishnan62
May 13, 20216 min read
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Why strong leaders fail
David Snowden (not Edward), the man behind the Cynefin framework, had some very useful advice for leaders when dealing with COVID...
krishnan62
May 5, 20212 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Apr 27, 20213 min read
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What does long term focus mean in the corporate world?
In many conversations on strategy using the 3 horizon approach, I infer that corporates relate long term focus to new market...
krishnan62
Apr 23, 20214 min read
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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)...
krishnan62
Apr 21, 20213 min read
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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...
krishnan62
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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