Persistence Pays

Excerpts from Mr. B. Muthuraman, Vice Chairman of Tata Steel, convocation address to MBA students at SDM College, Mysore Why are convocation speeches important even if most of them are…

Smartness is not enough

If the first twelve years are any indication, the twenty-first century risks going down in the history as a century of scandals. The leaders involved in scandals did not lack…

Use LSD model to retain employees

Kishore Biyani, founder and group CEO of the Future Group, spoke at the recently held conference on ‘Corporate Culture and Spirituality’ at the Art of Living. Excerpts: On Chanakya Neethi…

If you innovate joyously, there’s no rat race

Harish Bhatt, CEO, Tata International Innovation has to have purpose. Two decades ago when the Tata group came out with Tata salt which had iodine in it, it was the…

Why Product Thinking?

Until five years ago it was a common perception that India’s future is in services and that we are not good enough to develop and launch significant products. Not anymore….

The Questions Indians Ask

Pinkesh Shah, director programs, at the Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore, recently launched India’s first business school for software techies, shares some interesting, some funny experiences while talking to the…

How Ferose turned Sap Labs into a product factory

In April 2010, V.R. Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose…

Big Data and Management Revolution

Big Data and Management Revolution

It’s becoming evident to futurists and enlightened business historians that Big Data is in the process of creating a management revolution. Most business leaders, especially senior executives in the traditional…