Catalign Innovation Consulting

Last month I got an opportunity to conduct a session on “Fostering a culture of innovation” for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) business o...

  Prof Edgar Schein passed away on January 26 at the age of 94. His son and collaborator Peter Schein wrote , “He and I had just finished a...

It was a pleasure to have my classmate and friend Yezdi Lashkari give a guest lecture in my course “ Strategic management of technology and ...

I have been a fan of both systematic experimentation and Prof. Stefan Thomke for over a decade. Hence, it is not surprising that I enjoy...

“How does this process compare with Apple’s design process?” is a question that I often get in my design thinking workshops. I talk abou...

“How to overcome everyday monotony?” is a question that surfaces in my workshops in different forms and from participants of all age gro...

“No, no, that’s not possible”. One participant in my workshop was telling another. Both of them had more than twenty years of experience...

“What do I do?” asked a participant in a one on one conversation during a coffee break in one of my workshops. He felt he had been doing...

“Hi, How are you?” This common greeting is potentially an invitation to reflect. However, we mostly respond with a mechanical “I am fine...

Last month I came across a session 2017 Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro held in Japan for budding writers titled “My secrets of writing”. It...

I work in two areas – innovation and mindfulness. I mention this while introducing myself. A natural question that I get after this is –...

I got an opportunity to write an article on “ Sustaining participation in innovation initiatives ” which appeared in NHRD Journal , Oc...

It has been over five years since I first wrote about various elements of an organizational innovation ecosystem (see the picture abov...

Over the past half a decade, I have come across several companies who were interested in either starting or reviving a languishing i...

Over the past five years, I have been fortunate to have witnessed several dozen innovation programs. I have seen the journey of some innov...

I show this picture to the participants of innovation workshops and ask, “Is this an innovation?” There would typically be a silence for...