Remembering CK Prahalad :: 1941-2010

I was re-reading some of CK’s books recently, and rediscovered his sheer genius. The ability of the man to foresee trends in global ecosystems, trade, value chains, customer re-definitions, collaborations, organisational networking etc., was unique. I consider CK as a futurist with an even more futuristic vision. His ability to take you into a new [...]

Business Model Changes and Collective Intelligence

In my view, Innovation in today’s accelerating world, be it in tech or non-tech, must happen at the business model level. The ability to see old things in new ways, the ability to re-think, re-work, re-use our existing assets into newer dimensions is where innovation will move into. We have gone through a 100+ years [...]

How Innovative are you?

“Companies are actually living organisms, not machines. We keep bringing in mechanics, when what we need are gardeners.” ~ Peter Senge Sustainable innovation, the endless effort to find a better way, cannot be achieved by robotically lining up best practices and imitating them. The real catalyzing agent for renewable innovation is the ground from which [...]

InnoVisions – A Journey from 1625A.D.!!

What is Innovation? There has been much talk about this in the recent past. However, is the concept of corporate innovation new? Is this merely old wine in new bottle? Is it as elusive as it is perceived to be? Let’s take a leaf from the past. About 1625, Sir Francis Bacon magnificently described an [...]