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What is innovation?

Innovation philosophy

Applying I-squared-P definition of innovation

Systematic Innovation: What kind of a beast is it?

Chance favors prepared mind: Pasteur’s first law of innovation

What can innovation movement in India learn from Quality movement?

4 types of innovations: BusinessWeek classification

Business model,

Business moat,

Competitive advantage,

Strategy

What is your business model?

Warren Buffett and Disruptive innovation

What kind of moat does your business have?

Strategy as surfing a wave: David Grossman's moment of recognition at IBM

Strategy as surfing a wave #2: More MORs (Moments of Recognition)

Strategy as surfing a wave #3: Grossman-Patrick story and "dog that didn't bark analysis" 

Strategy as surfing a wave #4: What do successful surfers do?

Letting a wave pass by: Story of Warren Buffett's non-investments in Intel and Microsoft

Centenary of a blue ocean: Ford Model T

“Predatory leap” metaphor of Prof. Rumelt

iPhone and Blackberry: Competitors and Complementors

Is your business model sticky?

Richard Rumelt’s 9-point hard-times survival guide

My favorite Buffettisms

Strategy and the fat smoker: Why insights don’t always translate into actions

Kodak is toast: insights from Bill Gates at Buffett Group meeting

Game of shorting: is it really easier to figure out the losers?

When growth chokes your business: lessons from Subhiksha retail

Tata Nano: Hhow the story evolved over the years

Innovation framework,

Innovation engine,

innovation process,

innovation capacity,

innovation effectiveness

Want to increase capacity of your innovation factory? Check your C-E-O

Assessing capacity of innovation engine using CEO model

Assessing efficiency of your internal innovation bazaar

Going beyond idea contest #3: Building innovation sandboxes

Bangalore 10K run and a (N=1, R=G) model

Adsense story: Role of environment and innovation process

Open innovation insights from P&G’s Connect + Develop

More open innovation insights from P&G’s Connect + Develop

Dynamic innovation sandbox: Where thinking inside the box matter 

Innovation custodians and their innovation philosophies  

Lower your batting average to increase innovation productivity 

40 years, 20 million ideas: The Toyota suggestion system

Innovation sandbox: a low-cost grass-root level example

A look at Tata Nano through "Dynamic Innovation Sandbox" lens

Idea generation & Sources of innovation

Innovation trigger: idea vs. insight

Three sources of innovation: pain, wave and waste

Do ideas float in the air?

Going beyond idea contests

Immersive research: P&G’s approach of getting deep customer insights

Discipline of full body immersion: lessons from Ganesha and Bill Gates

Reva and Nano: 2 approaches to innovation

Idea selection,  innovation risk,

4 types of risks every innovator should be aware of

Black swan and the laws of Mediocristan vs Extremistan

Insight, entrepreneurial mindset and principle of affordable loss

Impossible problems and successful approaches: Story of Fermat’s Last Theorem

Clean slate enquiry & strategic insight: Story of Intel’s exit from memory business

Lego: story of an innovative company that forgot cost of innovation

Overcoming prediction disability: Applying the black swan wisdom to idea selection

Prototyping, experimentation

Prototyping: A foundational competency of every innovator

4 levers of systematic experimentation: Story of Wright brothers

Why do you say innovation is difficult, Mr. Feynman?

Lower your batting average to increase innovation productivity   

Story of how Google's AdSense almost got killed

Idea communication,         idea selling,                       idea diffusion

Managers are from Mars and storytellers are from Saturn

Cabbages and condoms: Story of how Mechai gives something to talk about

Story of how Bill Gates brings a little reality to the room

Generative metaphors: Disney’s “cast members” vs Subway’s “sandwich artists”

Why do you say - innovation is difficult, Mr. Feynman?

Deconstructing curiosity flow from Steve Jobs iPod launch presentation

In love with the villain: curse of knowledge

Bullet point jokes

Idea communication and curiosity gap theory

Going beyond bullet points: 1-day workshop on how to design effective presentations

Confirmation bias and curse of knowledge: The villain connection between “Black Swan” and “Made to stick”

Why don’t we hear stories in presentations? Story of (lack of) storytelling

Invoking emotion through one individual: Ann Nixon Cooper and Obama’s victory speech