·Product & Innovation
From Bazaar to Breakthrough
The next phase of global innovation may emerge not from invention, but from how India adapts and stretches existing tools.
SV
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
Entrepreneurship Startups And Innovation
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·Product & Innovation
FF Daily #382: The battle between fuel and friction
May 27, 2021: Why do new ideas meet with resistance; The politics of Gandhi; Zoom fatigue; Here comes the sun
FF
Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
WFH Daily #94: Are you measuring what matters?
June 25: Keep your eyes on the mission, measure what matters, plan ahead
FF
Founding Fuel
·Ethnography and Design Thinking
Why ethnography is the fuel for innovation
Ethnography is a life skill that many business executives and entrepreneurial leaders need to learn. It keeps them grounded and in tune with the lives of real people they hope to serve
FF
Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
Where do ideas come from?
Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations
FF
Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
What they don't teach you at the IITs
Entrepreneurs need to be able to understand humans, individually and as a collective. For them, a liberal arts education is necessary. Because the scientific method teaches you inquiry. But the humanities teach you to apply that inquiry to yourself
TB
Tanuj Bhojwani
Fellow | iSPIRT foundation
·Product & Innovation
Walk a mile in the user’s shoes
For ground-breaking innovation, keep the user at the centre, and get a good cultural understanding of the actual place where your product will be used
FF
Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
How entrepreneurs learn
Large established firms have a tough task in embedding entrepreneurial thinking inside the firm. Because it means rewiring the way leaders think about the future
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
How to innovate for India
Entrepreneurial leaders like Medtronic Labs’ Omar Ishrak and Khan Academy’s Salman Khan are showing how low-cost, disruptive, local solutions can open up new opportunities in emerging markets
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
Being creative is hard work
This Week: How to create a great single brand for customers and employees, creativity vs imagination, and more
FF
Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
Innovation: Starting with the real jobs that need to be done
This Week: Clayton Christensen on innovation, Aadhaar and deliberative democracy, the rise and fall of Nokia, Snapdeal and Flipkart, and more
FF
Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
Moderate constraints actually boost creativity. Here's why
The popular belief is creative minds work best in unstructured, open-ended environments. But some research suggests that the opposite might be true
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
Looking for breakthrough ideas? Look outside your own context
A roundup of the stories we wrote and the books we’re following
FF
Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
Empathy and the power of being moved
The essence of “being moved” is being persuaded to act upon your goodness. This holds a lesson for entrepreneurs
BP
Baba Prasad
President and CEO | Vivékin Group
·Ethnography and Design Thinking
A design thinking approach to film making
'For Here or to Go?', a film about Indian immigrants in America, has received much acclaim. Writer-producer Rishi Bhilawadikar and director Rucha Humnabadkar talk about how an independent film maker is very much like a first time entrepreneur
·Product & Innovation
What start-ups ought to do now
The most successful companies in recent times are those that have incorporated Design Thinking into their DNA
PT
Pankaj Tibrewal
Founder, Operator and VC
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