First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves
How does an industrial revolution form? Despite the long history of the human race, why did the first industrial revolution take place so late? Does it mean that prior to…
History & Observations
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Pre-industrial Age Seeded Industrial Revolutions
It may be surprising to many of us that pre-industrial age seeded industrial revolutions. For example, the hero engine or aeolipile invented in the 1st century AD is the precursor…
Design Thinking for Innovation
Design thinking for Innovation is more than innovating completely new products and experimenting with them in the market. Instead, it is about systematically generating ideas from strategic areas for nurturing,…
Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern
The magical emergence and evolution of Walkman to iPod is the outcome of applying clear thinking in generating ideas and profiting from them. There are underlying patterns beneath the magical…
Frugal Innovation and Jugaad—slow lane?
Despite promises, neither frugal innovation nor Jugaad offers us any novel approach of offering scalable growth path to the quality of living standards
Making, Reengineering, and Reinnovation
Making, reengineering and renovation deserve careful investigation to figure out their merits in developing sustainable as well as self-growing industrial economy
Sustainable Development through Industrial Revolutions
Industrial revolutions are key for offering us products for improving our quality of living standards. However, the consumption of those products depletes our fixed stock of resources and damages the…
Systematically Generating Innovative Ideas
Despite the immense importance, Innovation productivity has been a growing concern. Firms need to have higher productivity, and also predictability in innovation performance–making products better and also cheaper. The challenge…
Questioning Subtraction Practice in Innovation
Subtracting features for making products simpler does not appear to be a smart Innovation practice. It runs the risk of failing to compete and sustain itself in the market. Hence,…
Technology Transfer Success of Apple
The success of Apple has become a miracle. What is the secret of this magical Innovation performance? What has Apple invented, which no one else can do? In fact, Apple…
Disruptive Innovation Examples
Disruptive innovations appear as magical outcomes. However, careful analysis of Disruptive innovation examples reveals underlying repeatable patterns. These patterns are useful for incumbent firms to predict and respond to take…
Profiting from Innovation Demands Passion for Winning and Perfecting
Education, R&D, publications, creativity, and patents are important. However, to leverage them in taking ideas to market at profit, culture matters. In fact, profiting from Innovation demands Passion for Perfection,…