Posts by Mukesh Gupta
Institutionalizing Innovation is a Lot like Parenting
Premise: I have read countless blog posts, wrote a few myself, watched videos, did innovation courses, read books on innovation, all in the quest to learn what makes innovation happen and if there is a way to institutionalise innovation. While there are people who claim that they can do so, I have come to the…
Read More6 Ways to Grow Your Curiosity
Holding a curious mindset is a great starting point when you’re leading your team or organization. If you’re in a truly new space, you won’t always know the answers. Your team won’t either. You’re going to venture into the unknown together. Curiosity is a great way to lead that charge.†–Tim Brown, IDEO CEO Premise:…
Read MoreInnovators: What’s Killing your Creativity?
We now consume up to five times as much information as 25 years prior; outside of work we process roughly 100,000 words every day. This drains us of not only willpower (of which we have a limited store) but diminishes our ability to think creatively as well.
Read More3 Character Traits of a Good Innovation Manager
Almost every CEO that I meet wants to find out a way to out-innovate their competition. They want to innovate to improve their profits. They want to innovate so that they can help their customers innovate. And in the same breath, they also say that almost all their innovation projects are either struggling to take off or have not yielded the kind of results that looked possible.
Read MoreThe Complexities of Digital Transformation
I have been reading about digital transformation everywhere I go on the internet for some time now and yet, I don’t yet see true success stories of a brand or a business that has actually successfully gone through and transformed, in the true sense of transformation. The question is why is this so?
Read More3 Ways to Systematically Come Up with Breakthrough Ideas
Every organisation and every leader that you talk to today, wants to build a culture of innovation and a breakthrough product as soon as possible. However, if we look closely, there are three ways to come up with an idea that has the potential to become a breakthrough innovation: Imagination Insights Challenging current assumptions Lets…
Read MoreHow to Get Better at Dealing with Change
We live in an age where we see accelerating change all around us. Large, extremely successful businesses go bankrupt in a matter of years, if not quarters; companies with billion dollar evaluations are born in the matter of years; as consumers, there is something new that is becoming a rage almost every week. Change is…
Read MoreWhat Stops Us from Creating Breakthrough Innovations
Why do well-intentioned people, who have all the motivation and incentives to create breakthrough innovations, end up watering down their intentions and at best come up with an incremental innovation and at worst have nothing to show for their efforts?
Read MoreInnovation Starts with a Question
In a world where it is extremely difficult to sustain any competitive advantage you build, it is important to constantly innovate and come up with new ideas, products and solutions and that too at Speed. We all know that innovation always starts with an insight. You have an insight when you suddenly see things differently.…
Read MoreInnovation Starts with Identifying Invisible Problems
This post talks about where innovation begins – when we start to notice invisible problems and how to build that muscle.
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