Becoming a Design Thinker
We hear “Design Thinking” a lot, but what does design thinking mean and look like? How it’s different from “being innovative? These are some of the questions that, I often...
Category: Innovation
Power of Intention – One candle at a time!
by Sudhir Shandilya
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People around the world are impacted in different ways by what happened on May 25th to George Floyd. As parents of two teenage boys, we didn’t know how to express...
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...
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...
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....
Business Value from Technology
by Sudhir Shandilya
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The organizations often struggle to quantify and show business value derived from technology. One of the ways to do it is by following a set of rules I. Focus on Processes–...
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...
Jugaad – An act of Frugal Innovation
by Sudhir Shandilya
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I learned about the word “jugaad” while studying engineering at my alma mater in India. We used to use it while speaking in my native language Hindi and when faced...
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...
How my job makes me more humane? – “Empathy Persona of an Innovator”
by Sudhir Shandilya
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This was originally written during 2014 Thanksgiving – sharing it here now! I have been thinking about writing on this for quite some time. I find this occasion of Thanksgiving...
Innovation and Business Process Excellence
by Sudhir Shandilya
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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...
Oct
25
2013
Affordable Care Act – What may have caused problems with the exchange?
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Model for insurance exchange looks very similar to any ecommerce marketplace – Browse, Compare, and Purchase. Likes of Expedia, Orbitz, and Amazon operate efficiently at much larger scale with similar model. Affordable...
Oct
08
2013
Big data to fuel Innovation
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Innovation may have found a best buddy in big data. Data is omnipresent on pretty much everything that’s needed to run, sustain, and innovate in a business. For example, big...
Jan
07
2013
Technology vs Information
by Sudhir Shandilya
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It’s the mindset that every employee in your organization need to inculcate i.e. information should always precede technology. Focusing just on technoloy forces a culture that is change resistant, however focus on...
Nov
13
2011
Shared Value
by Sudhir Shandilya
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Heard Michael Porter, strategy guru, today at Babson forum. It amazes me how well he simplifies and puts things in perspective. It makes so much sense that we need to re-think...