Monthly Archives: March 2007
Designers Are The Enemy of Design???
I came across this: So let me tell you why. Designers suck because they are arrogant. The blogs and websites are full of designers shouting how awful it is that now, thanks to Macs, Web 2.0, even YouTube, EVERYONE is … Continue reading
Innovation: Key for India Inc
Innovation is strategic for India Inc.! That’s what this survey says. Read this Far ahead of other developing and developed economies of the world, India Inc is assigning strategic priority to innovation. Around 91 per cent of the Senior Executives … Continue reading
About oceans, red or blue. No, it is about rocking the boat!
You thought navigating an ocean would be difficult. Now you have to think that Red Ocean is may be energy sapping and blue ocean would be easy! We are talking about strategy! Here is low down BOS (Blue Ocean Strategy). … Continue reading
How does a corporate value of excellence translate into personal value?
I came across this question. Here is my answer, serious, even if the question was innocent or rhetorical! Excellence needs to converted into behaviors in the context of business processes. These behaviors can be used to assess / counsel / … Continue reading
About Starbucks: what’s fuss?
Starbucks has been a darling of management schools and business magazines for creating best practices in experiential branding, social responsibility etc. So what went wrong, that its CEO has to complain that the brand is turning into commodity? Follow this … Continue reading
A strategy minefield!
In these days of heady growth, I come across people and companies planning to do many things at once, e.g. CEO of a medium sized engineering company showed me his strategy for next three years. He planned to -create innovative … Continue reading