Pages

▼
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Lessons from ATIRA’s early efforts at innovating in textile mills in Ahmedabad

›
Eighty years after Ranchhodlal Chhotalal founded the first textile mill in 1861, Ahmedabad’s mill owners were still dependent on Manchester...
1 comment:
Sunday, April 3, 2011

4 types of innovation leaders

›
Innovation leaders influence innovations and inspire innovators – sometimes for many generations to come. What are the different types of i...
7 comments:
Friday, March 25, 2011

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

›
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

›
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...
1 comment:
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Walchand Hirachad Doshi: A daredevil innovator

›
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”?

›
“ 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

›
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 ...
1 comment: