Catalign Innovation Consulting

It was a pleasure to have my classmate Shailesh Prakash, EVP & CIO at The Washington Post, give a guest lecture in my class at IIM Banga...

In a recent interview , Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos made following statement (18:22): “The main job of a senior leader is to identify 2 or...

In my innovation workshops with managers, one challenge that shows up consistently is that of “no time”. Managers genuinely feel that ...

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

India is a land of paradoxes. On the one hand, we have sixty people losing sight in an eye camp and thirteen women losing life in a ste...

Walter Isaacson begins chapter 30 of the biography Steve Jobs titled “The Digital Hub” with a “What next?” workshop Jobs facilitated in...

Economist Fritz Schumacher is famous for his bestseller “ Small is beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered ” first publis...

Vinoba Bhave carried an experiment for a year in 1916 in Nalwadi, Wardha to check the earning productivity of charkha spinning 1 . He con...

Organizing contests to generate a blockbuster idea or a few best ideas is not a novel concept. You may be familiar with campaigns suc...

“The new idea either finds a champion or dies” goes a saying . Well, let’s test it. Did Steve Jobs, the “God of marketing”, need a cham...

Like last year , Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Prof. S Rajeev and I facilitated a 3-day workshop on innovation management at IIM Bangalor...

If you want to promote a culture of innovation , you will need to build experimentation capacity. How do you do it? Well, here are 4 le...

We got an opportunity to talk to Jayesh Badani, CEO of Ideaken , a Bangalore based start-up providing an open innovation platform. Ja...

I facilitated a 2-day program “ Next Gear: Gearing up forinnovation leadership ” on July 5-6 held at Hotel Grand Mercure, Bangalore. Par...