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Digitalisation and Innovation
Organizations are spending enormous resources on “digital transformation”. Do we understand what digital transformation means and how...
krishnan62
Apr 13, 20213 min read


Innovation triggers to look out - Over-priced and under- priced offers
This is part 3 of a multi part article. Read earlier parts here - https://bit.ly/3s2T7PH and https://bit.ly/3dMGvqG Every organization...
krishnan62
Apr 12, 20213 min read


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...
krishnan62
Apr 9, 20214 min read


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...
krishnan62
Apr 6, 20213 min read


Creativity IS NOT Innovation
Innovation is the buzzword today and everyone talks about it. One of the unfortunate consequences is that Creativity and Innovation are...
krishnan62
Mar 26, 20213 min read


The lessons from active innovators
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...
krishnan62
Mar 22, 20212 min read


Active and Passive Innovators
In today’s world everyone wants to innovate. Every board and every Chief executive, indeed every leader says we need to innovate. Yet few...
krishnan62
Mar 18, 20212 min read


The role of culture in driving innovation
Recently I heard a veteran consultant, muse loudly that many of the large organizations and groups are struggling to innovate, despite...
krishnan62
Feb 26, 20214 min read


Failures due to planning or failures due to uncertainty?
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....
krishnan62
Feb 12, 20212 min read


Innovation: Competency vs Capability Puzzle
In his book #PlayBold Magnus Penker identifies capabilities as the first key ingredient of organizations that are successful innovators....
krishnan62
Feb 10, 20213 min read


An innovation story of problems to find and problems to solve
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...
krishnan62
Feb 9, 20214 min read


Cognitive approach to innovation
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,...
krishnan62
Feb 4, 20214 min read


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,...
krishnan62
Jan 12, 20213 min read


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...
krishnan62
Jan 11, 20213 min read


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...
krishnan62
Jan 7, 20214 min read


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...
krishnan62
Jan 4, 20214 min read


Being Innovative – Is it on your New Year Resolution?
We make resolutions before every new year starts and so do organizations. Off late innovation appears high up on the list of resolutions....
krishnan62
Dec 30, 20202 min read


Innovation: Tactical or Strategic Approach
Innovation like most things in business can be dealt with tactically or strategically. A tactical approach to innovation would be...
krishnan62
Dec 16, 20202 min read


Leadership style and growth
There are a number of factors that impact growth of an organization, but the most important factor is undoubtedly, leadership style. All...
krishnan62
Nov 26, 20203 min read


Leading leaders: A reflection from Rotary Club of Madras East
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...
krishnan62
Nov 24, 20205 min read
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