Let’s start from the very end, a very good place to start
The title is a little bit of a change to Julie Andrew’s song “Do Re Mi Fa…” Where am I headed? Where is my team headed? Can I predict it all? Can I easily plan for this? Is there a …
Innovation: Be Evil to do Good
Now, present your proposal to these people, while asking them to remain in absolute silence.
Once you are done explaining your idea, your turn to remain silent. Ask them to beat up the proposal big time. No “Great idea!”, no suspension of judgements, nothing, ask them to unleash pure evil on your proposal.
Innovation: How Ideas do a dance together to form a concept
Selection usually involves a bunch of experts looking at the ideas under a microscope (told you, I am a former electron microscopist) and deciding which ones to take and which ones to leave. There are methods to help these experts like Implementation-payoff matrix, competitor jealousy, $100 method.
An inbuilt mechanism for innovation: organic & ecological
Over the last few months I have presented, to audiences in India, Singapore, US, and UK the following 2 columns, and asked them a simple question: Which set of words do you like as a human being? The ones on …
Leadership Lessons from 2008 – Go and Market directly to Your Target Audience
At MindTree, we have been researching for a few years, on whether it’s possible to teach innovation. Is it an inborn faculty, or a teachable skill? We studied wide array of concepts that are easily available – Lateral Thinking and …
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