Speed with stability: How to embed agility in your firm
How to be agile while maintaining long-term direction, just like a flock of birds can dynamically swoop and turn, while staying on course
Category : strategy-and-innovation
If not tax breaks to seed innovation, then what?
What the government ought to focus on is, encouraging Indian science to set up businesses and increasing the competitive intensity of the marketplace
Stories At Work
The ROI of business storytelling
Storytelling has a 28.06 times return on investment!
Dispatches from China
The rise of the big spenders of China
The Chinese buy more and travel more, and brands are going out of their way to woo Chinese shoppers, both at home and abroad
Virtuoso
Conventional training and classrooms are archaic. How do you then learn?
K Ramkumar, Executive Director of ICICI Bank and D Shivakumar, Chairman and CEO of Pepsi India talk about learning, unlearning and staying relevant in a rapidly changing world
Revisiting innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
How do you come up with the disruptive differentiators that will serve the unique needs of the millions of Indians with limited purchasing power, and who are difficult to access? Co-create and build ground-up
How Alibaba pulled off its Singles Day shopping fest
Alibaba broke all records with sales of $14.3 billion on Singles Day this year. How did it manage this amazing feat?
Is the R&D tax break really an incentive to innovate?
There is opposition to the proposed withdrawal of R&D tax breaks in India. But did the perk really propel companies to research and innovate?
Strategic Intent
The end of training
The effectiveness of old-style leadership programmes is questionable. One way to reboot the training model is to take a more problem solving approach to learning
The future of manufacturing—and what it means for Make in India
Technological progress is changing the nature of work in ways we don’t realize. For India’s push into manufacturing to be successful, we need to prepare for manufacturing as it will be five years from now
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