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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...

A while ago, I wrote an article on Push and Pull innovation (http://bit.ly/3pUhkaE). It received plenty of attention and in this article,...

Big organizations appear to have everything that takes to succeed with innovation. They have resources, they have leadership bandwidth,...

Part 2 on removing serendipity in innovation The key to innovation is a process of marrying ideation and commercialization and is about...

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...

Recently, the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, repeated his call for India Inc to innovate. He is amongst a large group of...

We make resolutions before every new year starts and so do organizations. Off late innovation appears high up on the list of resolutions....

Innovation like most things in business can be dealt with tactically or strategically. A tactical approach to innovation would be...

There are a number of factors that impact growth of an organization, but the most important factor is undoubtedly, leadership style. All...

I have been privileged to be a member of a prestigious club, Rotary Club of Madras East (popularly called RCME) in Chennai. The club with...