Tag: Soren Kaplan

Innovation, Inspiration

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced Me: #10 Clayton Christensen

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Innovation

Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation

The need for innovation has never been more acute for businesses than it is today. Every CEO of any sizable business is worrying about which startup from which garage is going to change the rules of their game and disrupt them. They are looking for ways to find (internally, within their organisation or externally, through acquisition/partnership/investments) innovations that can give them enough breathing space to grow their businesses and give their shareholders a good return on investment (and in the process make a lot of money for themselves :-)) However, what most organisations don’t get is that there is only one […]

Innovation, Recommendation, transformation

Best Among What I Read Today – The Innovation Edition, Jan 5th 2017

In this edition of Best Among what I read, I would like to share some of the best content that I came across this week, on the topic of Innovation. Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea In this blog post, Roger Martin shares how the concepts of design thinking can be used not just to create new products or services but can be used for a much more important activity – to build commitments to the ideas that the design thinking team is working on. Innovation we have seen is not an idea problem but is a […]