Daily Archives: November 15, 2005

Terrence Seamon wonders if he can make a business of:

Coaching to Build Successful Leaders, Teams, and Organizations

I wish he is successful, because I see myself treading that path in the not so far future. Do you have a word of advice or encouragement for him, hop on and let him know.

For people who might be going to jampot (I sadly, am not )

Look up details at XLRI Ensemble site.

The highlights this year -

- theme of bottom of pyramid (that promises to be an interesting one!)
- Reliance strategy case study on telemedicine in rural India (another case I would love to get to know about!)
- O&M Marketing Case where teams would interact live with creative team from O&M in their offices across India (wow, the exposure the students get these days!)
- Tata Steel Social Business Plan contest (B-schools turning more and more social these days!)
- HLL and Sapphire present the HR Simulation
and ITC Pharaohs – the flagship game where Ixthus, the Adventurer takes on the desert storms to build a pyramid for the Pharaoh! (now that did not make any sense to me!)

Young Britons flock east to answer India’s call centre crisis

and in a different news story

In UK, more Indians are getting the good jobs.

Quid pro quo?

Max of SuccessFactors mailed me that they are running a contest at www.worstreview.com where they are looking for people’s worst performance review stories (and rewarding them with prizes).

Sounds like what SimplyHired did with SimplyFired. Go ahead, I am sure there are enough stories you can share !

Getting a reward to share a bad story ? Therapy and a prize, what could be better than that??

The BusinessInnovation2005 blog posts an interview of Navi Radjou of Forrester Research where he states

US firms now generate $160 billion in revenue from overseas markets. But the 3 billion consumers in India, Brazil, and China have different needs than the 300 million US consumers. So US firms are forced to tap a global ecosystem of partners to design, build, and sell products and services that cater to the unique needs of emerging market consumers.
and
Forward-thinking CEOs have begun to map internal and external resources to the four value-delivery services in the Innovation Networks model: Inventor, Transformer, Financier, and Broker.

I agree with that view. With Indian pharma companies now moving to R&D to deliver new molecules, there exists a big possibility of drugs that are cheaper because the cost of researching and developing them is so low.

On a related thought, I have believed that there exist a certain kind of innovation that the context of society favors in a certain age. In most of the 20th century the focus was on new inventions. In the 80s and 90s the focus was on incremental process innovation. In the 90s we also saw the rise of business model innovation.

Is it already the time for a new innovation model? I had the fortune of listening to a webcast (ah the wonders of technology) to John Seely Brown more than a year ago. In it JSB talks about the digital culture and the way it changes the way we learn. Is it the time of Remix-Innovation?