“Jugaad” – A Practice of Frugal Innovation
The concept of “jugaad,” a term I grew up with in India and regularly applied during my computer engineering studies there, profoundly embodies the spirit of frugal innovation. “Jugaad” is a...
Category: Agile
Building a Resilient Agile Culture with Tom Kelley’s Innovation Personas
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Adopting Agile methodologies can often be challenging, especially in corporate environments where dependencies on non-Agile team members and rigid organizational structures can dilute Agile’s core principles of flexibility, continuous improvement,...
Agile, Consulting, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
A Strategic Framework to Leverage Technology as an Enabler of Business Value and Innovation
by Sudhir Shandilya
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In an ever-evolving landscape and environment, organizations must overcome the hurdle of proving the real-world benefits of their technology investments. This article covers a systematic framework for organizations to synchronize...
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
Innovating with Purpose: The Essence and Application of Design Thinking
by Sudhir Shandilya
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In the context of lean-agile delivery, innovation, entrepreneurship, and product management, the term ‘Design Thinking’ frequently surfaces, sparking curiosity and questions. What exactly is Design Thinking? How does it differ...
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management
The Importance of Customer Engagement in Agile Digital Transformation and How to Navigate Absence
by Sudhir Shandilya
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As organizations undergo rapid digital transformations, the agile mindset stands out as the core competency for project success. Central to agile’ s effectiveness is the principle of active customer engagement....
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
What is agile product development
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Product development is a complex, multifaceted process that requires an amalgamation of innovation, effective communication, and collaborative effort. With the advent of modern management methodologies, Agile has emerged as a...
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
Why killer assumptions
by Sudhir Shandilya
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A thought to write on this topic is inspired by the fact that our success on anything we undertake is often as good as assumptions we have made along the...
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Startups, Thoughts
What’s not an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
by Sudhir Shandilya
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A fundamentally simple concept of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) often in practice gets intermingled with our personal experiences; knowledgebase; perceptions; beliefs; biases; the way we think things should work; organizational...
Agile, Business Model, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
Rethinking business model – Revenue, Cost, and Community
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Whether planned and well thought of or something that just happened, business model is at the heart of any organization. Typically, organizations have business model covering revenue and cost streams....
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
Sharing ideas through a story
by Sudhir Shandilya
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The storytelling seems to be becoming a lost art. It’s one of the fastest and the agilest way to connect, inspire, mobilize, get your message across, enable cohesion, and visualization....
Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Personal & Organizational Development, Product Management, Thoughts
Innovation for competitive advantage and sustainability
by Sudhir Shandilya
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In most organizations, innovation slowly diminishes as they move from early stages to maturity. This is primarily because as an organization grows and establishes itself in the market, the focus...
From Just Yes to Aha
by Sudhir Shandilya
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A pre-conception that to innovate we need to deviate too far from the norm and from what we do in our regular jobs is not entirely true. If our actions...
Innovation and Business Process Excellence
by OpenInno
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While researching on ways to cross-pollinate business process excellence with the idea of innovation, I stumbled upon this article from Harvard Business Review – The Customer-Centered Innovation Map. This outlines very...
Opportunities – They are all around us
by Sudhir Shandilya
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There are opportunities all around us driven by the needs, both obvious and the ones to be discovered. Besides being innate at observing and uncovering needs, entrepreneurs are adapt at helping...