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January 31, 2018January 25, 2018Innovation

Book Review – Three Box Solution

Name of the book: The Three Box Solution: A Simple Framework for leading innovation Author of the book: Vijay Govindarajan Publisher: HBR Press Overall Rating: 4/5 Implementability of ideas: 4/5 This is a book about how to lead innovation in an organisation. The framework that Vijay suggests is simple to learn and keep in mind. As he rightly says in his book, easy to remember doesn’t mean easy to implement. Leading innovation isn’t easy either. However, the simplicity of the framework is a big plus. No need to remember complicated stuff. […]

January 17, 2018January 16, 2018Innovation, Leadership

Quest for the elusive Innovation Framework

Premise: I have read countless blog posts, wrote a few myself, watched videos, did innovation courses, read books on innovation, all in the quest to learn what makes innovation happen and if there is a way to institutionalize innovation. While there are people who claim that they can do so, I have come to the decision that it is an elusive quest, one that we may never be able to complete. Innovation and Parenting: As is usual, when I was taking a walk post lunch today, I was thinking about innovation and if there is a way to institutionalize it. […]

January 4, 2018Innovation, Leadership

6 ways to grow your curiosity

Holding a curious mindset is a great starting point when you’re leading your team or organization. If you’re in a truly new space, you won’t always know the answers. Your team won’t either. You’re going to venture into the unknown together. Curiosity is a great way to lead that charge.” –Tim Brown, IDEO CEO Premise: It is human tendency to look for answers or solutions, the moment a question or a challenge is posed. We feel good about having solved the problem. There is a rush of dopamine and that enforces this routine again. However, if we are to […]

December 29, 2017Innovation

Learning Design Thinking By Design Doing

via GIPHY I was invited by the organising team of the Society for Technical Communication’s India chapter conference to introduce the concepts of Design thinking to the participants. We did some brainstorming and decided that instead of giving a lecture for an hour about design thinking and walk off, it would be better if we can find some additional time and get the participants to experience Design thinking methodology by using the process to attempt to solve something that everyone of them are currently facing. I got about 150 mins at the conference to deliver this experience. After a lot […]

December 14, 20171000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Innovation

How to Run a Good Brainstorming Session

Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. We had about 70 people in the room. All of them experienced technical content writers. As I always believe, learning happens best when people have a lot of fun while learning. We then retain a lot of what we learn in that setting. I am getting beside the point. I am sure that everyone of us, me included, have at one point or other, been invited to join in a brainstorm to come up with ideas to solve a given problem. […]