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With this strategy, Amazon came up with Kindle and Netflix moved to streaming films and TV shows online
Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
How Tata group's R. Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant's Sukumar Rajagopal, Titan's LR Natarajan and BMC Software's Suhas Kelkar built an ecosystem for innovation
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
Reliance's famed project management skills are being severely tested as its strains every sinew to roll out its mammoth broadband wireless network. At its core, questions are being raised about its centralised organisational model for managing its new ventures
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The ability to frame a problem, a relentless striving for a better solution, and careful patenting are some of the lessons
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
Wikipedia and YouTube are two examples of businesses that tweaked their initial strategy and found exponential growth
Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
The most successful companies in recent times are those that have incorporated Design Thinking into their DNA
Pankaj Tibrewal
Founder, Operator and VC
Taking a bet opens up opportunities, but first ask yourself -what can I bet on, without betting the company?
Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
Narratives are much more memorable than bullet points on a PowerPoint slide when trying to make your teams understand your strategy
Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
Cheap labour and algorithms make everything you want done possible. But it's not going to take you any place significant. Unless you’ve got chutzpah like KV Kamath or Arun Maira
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Companies as diverse as Airbnb and PepsiCo India are involving proactive consumers to gain competitive advantage
Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
What leads to the belief that twenty-first century companies cannot be created by people over 30? Or 40? Or even 50?
Gourav Jaswal
Entrepreneur
BGI's secret sauce: an endless curiosity, a unique low-cost platform and a willingness to take on ambitious projects
Neelima Mahajan
Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger
Scarce capital forces you to think harder about your problems, including potential ones.
Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
Korn Ferry International CEO Gary Burnison talks about the traits that successful leaders share in his book - Lead
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Insights on how to change behaviour from Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter's book Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
