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Innovation Product Management

Different Approaches for Corporate-Startup Collaboration

On this National Startup Day across India, let me share my views on how corporates can collaborate and work together with startups in mutually beneficial ways. It’s no secret that many corporates are trying to emulate startup culture to accelerate innovation and agility in their organizations. Here are a few ways that will help corporates […]

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Product Management

Portfolio Approach in R&D

Traditional R&D investments are usually on internal efforts to develop new products, capabilities, and methods. Product refresh cycles and new product introduction timelines are getting shorter with rapid changes in technology, business models, and customer expectations. Integration among products and with adjacent services is gaining importance to deliver seamless user experiences. It may be a challenge for the traditional R&D models to respond effectively. A hybrid approach to R&D investments may help companies stay relevant.

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Transformations

Making Sense of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation isn’t just about digital technologies. It’s an opportunity to reimagine services and reengineer operations to reach more customers and serve them better. Here are my quick thoughts on digital transformations.

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Emerging Technologies Transformations

Quantum Computing in Financial Services

Quantum computing shifts the boundaries of computing with the ability to solve complex problems that classical computers can’t do. It opens up newer opportunities and capabilities triggering major innovations and disruptions in Financial Services. Some of the traditional products, services, and methods will be redundant paving ways to newer business models, products, and services.  Experts […]

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Operational Excellence

Defining Operational Excellence

Operational Excellence is not just about efficiency gains and cost savings. It has much wider significance in improving overall organizational performance while ensuring a responsible focus on society and environment.

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Operational Excellence

Making Sense of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)

Knowledge Management System (KMS) is the brain of an organization. Like the human brain, which captures knowledge using different senses, KMS should also capture Organizational knowledge through different channels.

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Product Management

Three Layers of Application Design

Three Layers of Application Design – Understand the problem, design back-end solution, and design front-end user interface. In this same order.