The image given below shows a 2×2 matrix with size on the y-axis and speed on the x-axis. Size can be represented as market share, revenue, or units sold. Speed is the speed of innovation of a company relative to the industry. When a company, product, or service is ahead of the competition, speed is [...]
Should multinational search for new growth opportunities in slums and rural villages? Could the poorest of the poor who live in the so-called Base of the Pyramid (BOP) hold the key? “We’re talking about four billion people living on less than US$100 a year,” says INSEAD Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Stephen Mezias . [...]
“Learning Management System(LMS) helps knowledge management (informal or formal information). It’s OK to admit that your business needs that – you are not alone”, Jeffrey Roth says while giving 5 Reasons Why Business Should Choose Social LMSs. A social LMS is a solution that integrates eLearning and collaboration tools into the traditional LMS functionality to [...]
“Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the cloud.” It is this wish of Sugata Mitra, the Educational Researcher, which won him accolades and made him the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. [...]
Popular culture continues to glamorize startups, often overlooking the harsh reality that 90 percent of them fail. There is so much fiction around start-ups, with successful one being celebrated, while losers get written off easily. Emotional travails of deciding what to build, how to build it, who to build it with, when, where, why, with [...]
Inventing the future sounds like a mysterious but is a magical process! And, most of us are engaged in this voyage every day. True, that voyage into the future is somewhat Unknown. But we should keep our Hopes up high. And we’ll sure find what is Beyond our Hopes.
Is Creativity genetically encoded? Can’t say Is Creativity magical ? Seems so… Since childhood, the itch has been there. Wanted to do something creative. However throughout my academic years, I was taught to develop left hemisphere of our brain, which is said to be more logical, analytical and objective. On the contrary I was completely [...]
I believe that my current roadmap is ‘fuzzy‘, a bumpy road lurks ahead. Is it a FEAR? Thwarting my imagination and choking my ambition. Is fear a natural reaction? But, I don’t have any option, I have to CONQUER my fears. I may not have a clear view of the future, what’s there in store [...]
In complex systems like a business (or a brain), cause and effect may not always be as clear as the relationship between the light switch and the light bulb. There are time-delayed and time-dependent relationships in which huge effort may yield little in the near-term, or in which high output today may be the result [...]
“In 90 days the team pivoted the product, saved a major account, captured a large order, cut schedule from 18 months to nine months, and developed virtual backlog. Two years after release, product market share was up by 30% to 70%. Twelve of 17 competitors were gone. The division was the dominant global player.” Cardinal [...]