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Innovation without Disruption: Is it Possible?

S. Shyam Prasad PhD Introduction Yes, It is possible! It’s a long-held myth that innovation must be disruptive. I hope that after going through this article the myth would be cleared. The credit for the concept and data for this article are attributed to an article titled “Nondisruptive Creation: Rethinking Innovation and Growth” by W. […]

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Don’t mix strategic tasks with operational tasks

Anshu Sharma A lesson learnt It must’ve been early 2015 and I was a young manager leading a consulting engagement where we were trying to optimize cost to serve for a leading alcohol-beverage client. This is when I learnt one of my most memorable and useful lessons in management. A lesson which no b-school education […]

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Open Innovation: What is it and What We Need to Know About it

S. Shyam Prasad PhD Introduction Most of us are knowledgeable about innovation. Yet, to enable a seamless transition from innovation to open innovation, let us first discuss innovation. Innovation as we know is something new, original and more effective or at least more efficient than the existing one. Though innovation and invention are closely related, […]

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Is technology taking away jobs?

– Anshu Sharma Introduction Technology is changing the world around us at a very fast pace. The fourth industrial revolution is without doubt the most talked about phenomenon not just in corporate boardrooms, but in the academic world as well. There is an unending debate going on, on whether this technology led evolution will lead […]

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Differentiation, Branding, Talent Management

Mini-Case: Marketing Management  (Names of companies, employees, brands, and other facts & figures are fictitiously created with an objective to bring out certain key concepts in Marketing) Author: Anshu Sharma, MBA (ISB Hyderabad), M.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur), B.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur)                                  […]

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FEMVERTISING: FAD IN INDIAN ADVERTISING?

Dr. Shampa Nandi, Faculty, ISME Introduction For centuries, advertisers and marketers frequently used women in advertisements portraying in sexiest role, restricting their role in upbringing children, looking after family and doing all household chores. Thus women, in spite of being used in advertisements frequently, they were presented in inferior manner irrespective of their potentials and […]

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Cent percent e-vehicle nation by 2030: A pipe dream or a prophecy?

 S. Shyam Prasad PhD. Introduction India proposes to have only electric vehicles (e-vehicles) by 2030. With the population touching to be world’s highest, what makes the country to aim for such an ambitious programme? Why is the country seems to be in a hurry to get rid of petrol/diesel vehicles? The major roads are pothole […]

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SANTRO: THEN, NOW AND IN FUTURE ON THE BUMPY INDIAN ROAD

Dr. Shampa Nandi, Faculty ISME Indian passenger vehicle industry is showing a slow growth rate below 6%, all time low in last four years. In spite of double digit growth in rural market, the urban market like Delhi NCR, Mumbai witnessed flat sales with negative sales growth in FY2018-19. A very recent article, “Small is […]

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