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India's Next Global Export: Innovation - BusinessWeek
On a November afternoon, a dozen executives from companies including investment banks Rothschild and Goldman Sachs ( GS ) and tech research firm Gartner ( IT ) ringed a conference table in a brownstone on New York's Upper East Side. They were there to learn how U.S. businesses could develop products more cheaply and quickly by borrowing strategies from India . Speaker Navi Radjou, who heads the recently formed Centre for India & Global Business at England's Cambridge University, summed up his advice in one word: jugaad . A Hindi slang word, jugaad (pronounced "joo-gaardh") translates to an improvisational style of innovation that's driven by scarce resources and attention to a customer's immediate needs, not their lifestyle wants. It captures how Tata Group, Infosys Technologies ( INFY ), and other Indian corporations have gained international stature.
10:30 AM Monday December 14, 2009 | Comments (29) Golf champion Tiger Woods no longer represents global consulting and technology services firm Accenture , as of December 13. Accenture is the first of Woods' corporate sponsors to pull out of the relationship completely. A day earlier, Gillette announced a suspension of Woods' marketing appearances for an unspecified period.
Tiger Woods and the Coming Decline of Celebrity Endorsements - R
The Coming Fight for Executive Talent - BusinessWeek
Whether you can hear it or not, a time bomb is ticking in C-suites worldwide. Its shock waves will resonate for decades. The explosive: indisputable demographics. Surveys conducted by the firm I work for indicate that the number of managers in the right age bracket for leadership roles will drop by 30% in just six years.
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World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make
On Tuesday I joined up with the Traveling Geeks (a band of journalists/bloggers/influentials who visit startups around the world, picture of them above in a Paris subway station) in Paris and we saw a ton of startups. Some of them, like Stribe, were very good. But overall they just didn’t measure up. In fact, they even got me to be rude to them, which caught everyone off guard . I’ve been thinking about why they got me so angry ever since, and that’s what this post is about.