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Friday, March 25, 2011

Warren Buffett’s biggest mistake and the psychology of decision making

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When Warren Buffett speaks it appears as though an old sage is speaking. And yet he is so fond of talking about his fallibility. During his ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Innovation pipeline: a popular lead indicator metric on innovation

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It is no use hearing the fire alarm after the fire engulfs you. The real value of any metric system is in raising alerts so that you have ti...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Walchand Hirachad Doshi: A daredevil innovator

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Each of the four businessmen in Gita Piramal’s “ Business Legends ” – Kasturbhai Lalbhai, Ghanshyamdas Birla, Walchand Hirachand Doshi and J...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Why does Edgar Schein say, “A culture of innovation doesn’t scale up”?

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“ DEC is dead, long live DEC ” by Prof. Edgar Schein is a forty year saga of the rise and fall of an innovative organization – Digital Equip...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

3M’s innovation storybook: A time-travel experience through a culture-capsule

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We have a natural bias to focus endlessly on the problems with our culture and in the process ignore what is working well already. What can ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Applying the Elephant-Rider model to a failed innovation program

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A large insurance company hired a new CEO who concluded that among the company’s main problems was a lack of innovation. He launched multipl...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

My theme for 2011: Robust intervention for systematic innovation

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I had identified four themes for study last year. I pursued all of them – some with more seriousness others with less. This year I am down ...
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