Category: Innovation

Innovation, Recommendation

Best Among What I Read Today, The Corporate Edition – Jan 2nd 2017

This is a collection of posts that I loved reading today and I hope that you will like as well. How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life In this HBR post, Paul Leinwand & Varya Davidson share the importance of the alignment of culture and strategy in the success of an enterprise. It is clear to any leader who has tried to create and execute on a new strategy, how difficult it is to get people to change the way they do things (culture). I strongly believe that the culture comes ahead of strategy. So, if you have a strategy that requires your teams […]

Ideas, Innovation

Making Brainstorming Work

One of the most important skill that businesses need to develop is their ability to continuously innovate and stay ahead of their competition. One of the meta skills that organisations will need to develop if they are to flex their innovation muscle is the ability to do great brainstorming sessions. Earlier in the day, I stumbled onto the below video in which Bill Burnett talks about practices that can help you make your next brainstorming session highly productive. Before, I share my views on this topic, pls take a few minutes to actually watch the video below. Top Reasons why brainstorming sessions fail: […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Innovation – Simple and Effective

I was driving home from office yesterday when I caught a glimpse of this advertisement on a small restaurant (Lemon Rice) on St. Johns Road in Bangalore. I was so happy to see this. [bctt tweet=”This is a great example of innovation in action.” username=”rmukeshgupta”] This also tells us that any one who wants to can innovate. This also tells me that small entrepreneurs who hustle can be extremely innovative. This is how they survive. This also tells me that innovation can be as simple as applying a concept that works elsewhere and try it out in a different environment. […]

Innovation

Innovation Starts with A Question

In a world where it is extremely difficult to sustain any competitive advantage you build, it is important to constantly innovate and come up with new ideas, products and solutions and that too at Speed.  We all know that innovation always starts with an insight. You have an insight when you suddenly see things differently. You see things differently when you start looking at things differently. You start looking at things differently, when you are trying to answer a different question. You can trace most innovations and creative endeavours to a question that someone asked.  So, it all starts with […]

Innovation, Podcast

PBTO40: Transforming Observation into Innovation with Andrea Simon

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/40_PBTO40__Transforming_Observation_into_Innovation_with_Andrea_Simon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Who is on the Show: In this episode, we are hosting Dr. Andrea Simon. She is the principal and founder of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) and the author of the upcoming book “On the Brink”. Why is she on the show: She is a corporate anthropologist and helps organizations, large and small, drive change by helping them rethink their strategy, customers and the culture in your own organisation. She has won numerous Addy and Aster awards for her marketing and advertising campaigns. She is a well-published author with articles in Forbes,Business Week and […]