The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world 01-06
Image credit : Shyam's Imagination LibraryBig data’s potential just keeps growing. Taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make...
View ArticleNote ban most disruptive policy innovation since 1991: Former RBI Governer D....
Image credit : Shyam's Imagination LibraryFormer Reserve Bank governor D Subbarao today termed demonetisation as "creative destruction and the most disruptive policy innovation since 1991 reforms" that...
View ArticleHow Will Demonetization Affect Business in India in 2017? Knowledge @ wharton...
It’s work in progress. Three events dominated India’s economic landscape last year, but whether they can be described as “progress” is debatable. One definitely isn’t: the unseemly brawl that broke out...
View ArticleThe Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman 01-09
No popular idea ever has a single origin. But the idea that the sole purpose of a firm is to make money for its shareholders got going in a major way with an article by Milton Friedman in the New York...
View ArticleResisting The Lure Of Short-Termism: Kill 'The World's Dumbest Idea' 01-09
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.– Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management (1954)When pressures are mounting to deliver short-term results, how do...
View ArticleBringing up the children. can we just shift from praise for achievement,...
The Stanford professor who pioneered praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point. It is well known that telling a kid she is smart is wading into seriously dangerous territory.Reams of...
View ArticleCustomer Loyalty Is Overrated 01-10
Marketers spend a lot of time—and money—trying to delight consumers with ever-fresher, ever-more-appealing products. But their customers, it turns out, make most purchase decisions almost...
View ArticleNo More Blueprints, Visions or Plans....We Need Liberty 01-11
Shyam's take on this article....Poverty is an essential bane of democracy. Poverty alleviation is a constant unfulfilled promise of various political parties and politicians in all the democracies of...
View Article"Humiliated" by post-note ban events, RBI staff write to Urjit Patel 01-14
Feeling "humiliated" by events since demonetisation, RBI employees today wrote to Governor Urjit Patel protesting against operational "mismanagement" in the exercise and Government impinging its...
View ArticleIMF says demonetisation a big dampener, cuts India's growth to 6.6% from 7.6%...
The IMF today cut India's growth rate for the current fiscal year to 6.6 per cent from its previous estimate of 7.6 per cent due to the "temporary negative consumption shock" of demonetisation, days...
View ArticleAnd now: President CEO : An opnion from Harvard Business School Faculty. 01-20
Donald John Trump, the 45th U.S. president, will be the first to go straight from the boardroom to the Oval Office without any political experience or military service.During the 2016 campaign,...
View ArticleBrain stimulation used like a scalpel to improve memory 01-22
Northwestern Medicine scientists showed for the first time that non-invasive brain stimulation can be used like a scalpel, rather than like a hammer, to cause a specific improvement in precise...
View ArticleJack Ma: America has wasted its wealth 01-22
Jack Ma, one of China’s most successful and richest entrepreneurs, has responded to America’s growing globalization backlash, arguing that the superpower has benefited immensely from the process – but...
View ArticleHow to Monetize Your Data 01-22
These days, most companies are awash in data. But figuring out how to derive a profit from the data deluge can help distinguish your company in the marketplace. Image credit : Shyam's Imagination...
View ArticleSqueezing more ideas from product teardowns 01-22
Some companies are using product teardowns to dismantle silo culture in product development. Engineers and purchasers love product teardowns—the practice of dismantling products into parts as a way to...
View ArticleEngaging With Startups in Emerging Markets 01-22
Startups in developing economies are addressing local problems through creative technologies and solutions. For large global companies, the prospect of working with such startups is appealing — and...
View ArticleCompeting Through Joint Innovation 01-22
The Chinese telecommunications company Huawei recently has made significant inroads into European markets using a strategy of innovation partnerships with customers and governments.View enlarged...
View ArticleUnexpected Benefits of Digital Transformation 01-22
Digital tools can be used in many different “right” — and surprising — ways to add value to an organization.View enlarged Image Image credit : Shyam's Imagination Library...
View ArticleIndia ranks sixth on eight great powers in 2017: magazine 01-27
India is ranked at the sixth spot, behind China and Japan, in a list of eight great powers for the year 2017 by a leading American foreign policy magazine which is topped by the US. The list is topped...
View ArticleHow to Regulate Innovation — Without Killing It 02-11
Digital innovation is giving rise to new business models. Uber and Airbnb are household names today, when not so long ago we were all learning about the sharing economy. The regulations don’t always...
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