August 25, 2017
Overview: All executives and leaders desire to promote innovation in their departments and companies. The way to think about innovation is, however, unclear.
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August 25, 2017
2 x 1.5 Session Notes = 3 hours
Overview: A career in business management is like a traveller’s journey. Travellers learn best by interacting with fellow travellers about their individual moves through the various phases:
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August 25, 2017
2 x 1.5 hour sessions = 3 hours
Overview: All management practitioners and books will assert that the basic job of a manager is to get work done through others.Do you like it?
August 25, 2017
Overview: Executives intuitively know that their own experiences are their best teachers, more so than all the teachers they might meet at professional courses.
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August 19, 2017
Published on 19-8-17
Convocation speeches definitely require to inspire young graduating students; if possible, they should also instruct the young people in some way (s); if at all possible further, convocation speeches should induct some memorable stories.Do you like it?
July 31, 2017
31st July 2017, BUSINESS STANDARD
R. Gopalakrishnan, Author, Corporate Advisor and Distinguished Professor at IIT Kharagpur How do you assess the impact of an innovation? Consider which of these four innovations has made greatest impact on mankind - invention of anesthesia, synthesis of urea fertilizer, discovery of penicillin or internet / email. The answer depends on how greatly the innovation has been adopted and how much it has changed peoples’ lives.Do you like it?
July 7, 2017
07th July 2017, BUSINESS STANDARD
By R. Gopalakrishnan, Author, Corporate Advisor and Distinguished Professor of IIT Kharagpur, Email : rgopal@themindworks.me As I write my 50th Innocolumn for Business Standard, I reflect on the soft side of innovation and entrepreneurship. . Entrepreneurs are like the repeat Everest climber, George Mallory, who when asked why he persisted, replied, “Because it is there.”Do you like it?
June 9, 2017
09th June 2017, BUSINESS STANDARD
R. Gopalakrishnan, Corporate Advisor and Distinguished Professor at IIT Kharagpur rgopal@themindworks.me Perovskite is mineral calcium titanate, discovered in the Ural Mountains in 1839, the same year that Jamsetji Tata was born. 168 years later, perovskite is at the heart of a very exciting solar technology.Do you like it?
May 12, 2017
12rd May 2017, BUSINESS STANDARD
R. Gopalakrishnan, Corporate Advisor and Distinguished Professor at IIT Kharagpur rgopal@themindworks.me I have been struggling with the nagging question about how long it takes for an invention (when an original idea has been articulated) to become commercial (when it is widely sold in market).Do you like it?