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Applied Empathy
August 26, 2018, 10:47 PM IST
By By MICHAEL VENTURA Empathy is a fairly objective, perspective-taking process where you are aware of your own bias, you try to step as far out of that as you can, and you try to see…
August 26, 2018, 10:47 PM IST
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Managing Projects
August 24, 2018, 11:17 PM IST
By JEFF BILLOWS ET AL It’s well-known in the industry that large, complex capital projects routinely run over budget and behind schedule. One study of 800 major projects (those of value over $1billion) found that, on…
August 24, 2018, 11:17 PM IST
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On Legality & Economics
August 20, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
Why are so many laws so effective, being both enforced by the functionaries of the state and obeyed by the citizens?
August 20, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
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Market redesign
August 17, 2018, 11:10 PM IST
ALANA PODRECIKS ET AL Customer traffic at malls has been steadily decreasing. Margins are declining in almost every retail category. Given these trends, it’s becoming harder to justify keeping expensive brickand-mortar stores open if they…
August 17, 2018, 11:10 PM IST
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Managing oneself
August 10, 2018, 11:12 PM IST
By Peter Drucker First and foremost, concentrate on your strengths. Put yourself where your strengths can produce results. Second, work on improving your strengths. Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve skills or acquire…
August 10, 2018, 11:12 PM IST
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On social enterprise
August 5, 2018, 11:03 PM IST
By George Serafeim New business school graduates have come to believe that one can either succeed in business or enhance society — but not both. In sociological terms, they feel a lack of ‘agency’, a sense…
August 5, 2018, 11:03 PM IST
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On Urban Redesign
August 3, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
At the end of World War II, almost half of the gross domestic product in New York City was in making clothing. Last year, it was less than 2%.
August 3, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
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Managing strategy
August 2, 2018, 10:33 PM IST
By Scott Kirsner It turns out that the word ‘innovation’ is not a Harry Potteresque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative and entrepreneurial.… There are thorny cultural, strategic, political and budget…
August 2, 2018, 10:33 PM IST
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Manage, innovate
August 1, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
By Jonah Sachs There is something called the hill-climbing heuristic, which is a thinking pattern that if we always take the next obvious step toward the top of the mountain, we’re going to eventually get…
August 1, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
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Phone data harvesting
July 31, 2018, 10:41 PM IST
By Bruce Schneier There’s a whole industry devoted to tracking you in real time. Companies use your phone to track you in stores to learn how you shop, track you on the road to determine…
July 31, 2018, 10:41 PM IST
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A passage to India
July 30, 2018, 10:37 PM IST
By Alyssa Ayres You do see the Trump administration continuing to partner deeply with India, and looking to grow the strategic consultation and cooperation. That is a very positive story. I do hope that it…
July 30, 2018, 10:37 PM IST
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Artificial intelligence: Let the researchers plug holes and minimise the error
July 30, 2018, 10:35 PM IST
By Debkumar Mitra It seems artificial intelligence (AI) machines are prone to hacker attacks that can fool them to behave ‘irrationally’. Earlier this month in Stockholm, at an International Conference on Machine Learning, a group…
July 30, 2018, 10:35 PM IST
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Strategic planning
July 29, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
By Oliver Bossert Et Al Several years ago, financial regulators in Europe decided to let banks verify customers’ identities remotely through digital video chats instead of relying solely on face-to-face appointments at bank branches. When…
July 29, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
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Automotive Upsurge
July 27, 2018, 11:07 PM IST
Today, the automotive sector contributes more than 7% to India’s GDP. The Automotive Mission Plan 2016-26 sets an aspiration to increase the contribution to 12%.
July 27, 2018, 11:07 PM IST
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Project Delays
July 24, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
By MARK KUVSHINIKOV The first signs of a distressed project are clear. Cost begins to creep and the project rapidly consumes the float that planners built into the schedule. As work progresses, important milestone dates continue…
July 24, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
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Narratives & Bottomlines
July 23, 2018, 10:43 PM IST
By MURRAY NOSSEL Our brains are hardwired for storytelling. In order to survive, we needed to pass on information important for our survival to our next of kin. If you think about the basic needs of…
July 23, 2018, 10:43 PM IST
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Smarter banking
July 22, 2018, 10:40 PM IST
By Sheinal Jayantilal et al The bank branch as we know it, with tellers behind windows and bankers huddled in cubicles with desktop computers, needs reinvention. Globally, financial institutions now process far more transactions digitally…
July 22, 2018, 10:40 PM IST
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How to be tech savvy
July 21, 2018, 6:57 AM IST
By Vivek Wadhwa One way to address the overall question of how a technology affects you is to go through the following exercise. It is a classic decision-framing exercise, not magic; but being able to…
July 21, 2018, 6:57 AM IST
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Increase capability
July 19, 2018, 10:50 PM IST
By Jeremy Siegel Higher unemployment is no good when the unemployment rate is 8%, 9% or 10%, but when it’s down below 4%, you don’t want that unemployment rate to keep on going down, because…
July 19, 2018, 10:50 PM IST
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Managing Strategy
July 16, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
By GAYATRI SHENAI One of the reasons that doing agile transformations is difficult is that there is no one formula for how to do it. The starting point and context for each organisation’s journey toward agility…
July 16, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
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