I found "Getting things done" (GTD) in the Time Magazine recently and have been studying and implementing it for the last two weeks. In fact, GTD has been keeping me away from this blog… David Allen explains GTD in his book and this has really taken off as a great methodology to improve personal productivity-withoutContinue reading “GTD and Knowledge Work”
Category Archives: Leadership and Management
Marketing,R&D,Innovation,Strategy changes at Coke
The recent management changes at Coca Cola headquarters are very interesting. In an earlier life I was in the packaging industry with lots of customers in the soda market and I had a huge interest in the doings of the soda marketers and Coca Cola in India is featured in my PhD thesis and anContinue reading “Marketing,R&D,Innovation,Strategy changes at Coke”
Global networks of innovation – a reality in 2020 ?
I have been thinking of the biggest change that 2006 has brought as we review 2006 on the last day of the year. Actually I had been studying this trend since 2005 when I happened to see the CBS 60 minutes report on Echo Boomers. Having a teenage son helped as was the opportunity toContinue reading “Global networks of innovation – a reality in 2020 ?”
Marketing Academic in “Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee”
I had just happened to call Professor Rajesh Chandy on Monday over a problem with a US Patent database paper that my Research Assistants and me were grappling with. We were trying to do electronic searches with key words and Rajesh’s articles were not coming up in the Marketing journals. So I called Rajesh andContinue reading “Marketing Academic in “Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee””
4E’s and one P in GE
I got hold of Jack Welch's book "Straight from the Gut" at an unusual place. From a charity fundraiser shelf at the local Stop n' Shop. "One more book !" my wife objected so I moved some others to the basement and promptly congratulated myself displaying 2 of the 4 E's (Edge and Execution)! InteractingContinue reading “4E’s and one P in GE”