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The most customer-centric companies know when to listen, when to engage—and when to get out of the way.
S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
Every KPI carries a strategic hypothesis. The real work of governance is to preserve that reasoning and create a trusted path for evidence to travel back.
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
India has spent eight decades bringing healthcare within reach. But roads, trust, gender and the freedom to be sick still determine who can actually use it.
Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
The debate is not simply about an IPO. It is about whether patient capital, stewardship and social purpose depend upon privacy, or can be protected through a different institutional architecture.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Can India build a new compact between the state, science, industry and entrepreneurs?
S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
Indian companies are more alert to geopolitics. The task now is to turn that awareness into capability: map dependencies, protect what matters, adapt the enterprise, and find competitive advantage in fragmentation.
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
A generation of Indians appears to be shifting from inherited faith in institutions to a running audit of their performance. That change could outlast any government—and reshape the risks facing anyone making long-term bets on the country.
Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
When incumbents buy, partner or outsource the capabilities demanded by each new disruption, they may solve today’s problem. The harder question is whether the parent company itself is still learning.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The things we learn outside our fields may sharpen how we see the world. But perhaps they matter most when we stop asking what they are useful for
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
A Danish startup wants to take a faster road to thorium and manufacture nuclear reactors by the thousands. Its audacious bet raises a question for India: what happens if the nuclear world changes before Homi Bhabha’s long-term vision is complete?
S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
AI can make us better at knowing, deciding and executing. The leadership challenge is knowing which struggles to remove—and which ones we need to preserve.
Varun Nagaraj
Dean and Professor of Information Management and Analytics | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
India is moving quickly to put autonomous AI systems to work. But is its capacity to govern them keeping pace?
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
AI is making information and analysis abundant. The harder strategic question is knowing what must change—and what must endure
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
The biggest competitive advantage in India's wastewater industry may no longer be better treatment technology. It may be the ability to finance, own and operate long-term water infrastructure.
Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
The OpenAI incident is less about rogue machines than about a deeper shift: AI is becoming part of the cognitive architecture of modern institutions
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
