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Friday, October 25, 2013

How smart guys pitched their ideas to Steve Jobs, the prickly perfectionist

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Steve Jobs looked at the world in binary mode. Either your idea was shitty or it was fantastic – nothing in between. That made the life ...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Practicality of Gandhi’s vision of “education through the hands” today

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“The old idea was… the craft was to be taken in hand wholy separately from education. To me, that seems a fatal mistake… The brain should...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Uncontrolled: A case for experimentation in social sciences including management

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Imagine a company that operates 10,000 convenient stores of which 8,000 are named QwikMart and 2,000 are named FastMart. It is observed ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Four steps where “Frugal innovation” meets “8 steps to innovation”

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When times are tough, anything frugal gains currency. “ Frugal innovation ” is no exception. Last week I attended a Tech Event of a glob...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Why does Ram Charan say “It is a myth that innovation is expensive”?

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A couple of weeks ago I got following question during a webinar to senior managers of an IT services firm: “Isn’t systematic innovation ...

Prof. Karl Ulrich’s classification of problem types

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I watched the Hindi movie Satyagraha last night whose story revolves around a grass-root level anti-corruption movement in India. As ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

2 dimensions of innovation maturity: creative confidence and incubation effectiveness

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A couple of month’s back I presented a 5-level assessment framework based on our book 8-steps to innovation. It depicts characteristics...