Innovation
by Cambridge University
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Description
A series of inspirational interviews and podcasts from the Judge Business School
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Innovation in India and China - Asia's non-identical twins - Part 2 | The Centre for India and Global Business at Judge Business School in Cambridge is creating a new dialogue for Western understanding of the emerging markets in India and China. On the one hand the rise of India and China as fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation threatens the West but on the other the West needs a greater understanding of how it can succeed in these new giant Asian markets. Each needs the other but economic and cultural differences often hinder business development. At a special two day Conference entitled 'Innovation in India and China', Navi Radjou, Executive Director, of the Centre for India and Global Business, and Jaideep Prabhu, The Nehru Professor of Indian Business, brought leading minds from the worlds of business, marketing, film, fashion and culture together to enable East and West to meet and find out how to create value from these emerging markets. Boni Sones has this report. | 11/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation in India and China - Asia's non-identical twins - Part 1 | The Centre for India and Global Business at Judge Business School in Cambridge is creating a new dialogue for Western understanding of the emerging markets in India and China. On the one hand the rise of India and China as fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation threatens the West but on the other the West needs a greater understanding of how it can succeed in these new giant Asian markets. Each needs the other but economic and cultural differences often hinder business development. At a special two day Conference entitled 'Innovation in India and China', Navi Radjou, Executive Director, of the Centre for India and Global Business, and Jaideep Prabhu, The Nehru Professor of Indian Business, brought leading minds from the worlds of business, marketing, film, fashion and culture together to enable East and West to meet and find out how to create value from these emerging markets. Boni Sones has this report. | 11/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bombay mix - Partho Sen-Gupta | Independent film director Partho Sen-Gupta talks about the new frontiers facing the Indian film industry as it engages with the West, and considers the exciting opportunities, technologies and challenges this blending of cultures will produce. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Services Science - Thinking about service in an innovative, integrated way - Steve Street | IBM's Steve Street explains why the financial meltdown, which demonstrates the limitations of a purely financial model, will motivate a move towards multiple sources of value. Services are crucial for our economy, the crisis has shown this very clearly, therefore it makes sense to look more scientifically at this important part of our society. We are, Steve believe, on the cusp of a radical transformation in the way services are delivered. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The impact of cultural and economic distances | As the markets in the new emerging economies open up, Gerard says, success is not necessarily guaranteed. You have to make the right decision at the right time. (Dr Gerard Tellis, Neely Chair of American Enterprise, and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, Marshall School of Business, USC). | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'And action' | The economic down turn is good for the cinema business, people want escapism at an affordable price and that fits in with Bollywood's plan to increase its global market share of the film industry. It might just be that 'East' can teach new tricks to the 'West' says Patrick. Partick von Sychowski, Chief Operating Officer, Adlabs Digital Cinema. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creativity and China | As a successful businessman, photographer, and author, who has written a book called "How creativity is transforming society and business in China", Kunal likes looking into the crystal ball of China's future. Needless to say he thinks the emerging markets are there for the taking. Kunal Sinha, Executive Director, Discovery, Ogilvy and Mather Greater China. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Return to Maharajah style | As their income levels swell, middle-class Indian and Chinese consumers are developing a taste for expensive luxury items imported from abroad explains Ashok. Professor Ashok Som, Associate Professor of Management, ESSEC Business School, Paris-Singapore. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Soaring prices for Asian art | The emerging art market, says Anuradha, is booming and likely to keep on going up. Anuradha Gosh-Muzumdar, Assistant Vice President and Indian Art Specialist, Sotheby's New York. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bottom-up inventors | There is every reason why those 'busy bees', the grassroots inventors, the 'knowledge holders', with their cultural and economic creativity, will unlock the key to India's future says Anil. Professor Anil Gupta, Indian Institute of Management, co-ordinator, SRISTI and Honey Bee Network, and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why some technical decisions are too important to leave to engineers | In the 1970s, the instant camera company Polaroid was riding high with a reputation for innovative, cutting-edge products. It was in that decade, however, that it made a decision to launch a new, highly ingenious fully integrated instant camera and film system called the SX-70, a decision that would have dramatic and devastating consequences for the company. Dr Kamal Munir of Judge Business School shows in this research how a seemingly innocuous technical decision to develop a new innovation can have unforeseen consequences on a company's production system, supply chain, vendor networks and the financial markets. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the 'dragons' come calling | Incorporating high-technology in low-cost products, offering more product choices and turning high-end specialty products into competitively priced mass market items, Chinese companies are rewriting the rules of business. So argues Professor Peter Williamson of Judge Business School in his book, Dragons at Your Door, co-authored with Professor Ming Zeng. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evolution, revolution - or business collapse | 'To a certain extent, the failure of banks following the credit crunch was the result of business model innovation,' says Judge Business School's Dr Chander Velu, co-author of new research in this field. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cerebral energetic officer - do leaders matter? | The recent election of Barack Obama raises the question: can a single individual make a difference to how a large group such as a nation thinks and acts in the long term? Or, in the more modest context of business: can a CEO drive the employees of a firm to become more innovative and perform better over time? If it is agreed that corporate culture plays a preeminent role in making firms more innovative, then a natural question to pose is: how is such a culture created and maintained? Specifically: does the individual at the head of the firm have a role to play in all this? Professor Jaideep Prabhu gives his views. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More haste, less speed: from invention to innovation | Necessity, goes the adage, is the mother of invention. Alas, mere invention is not good enough these days. Far more important is converting inventions into innovations: namely, products and services that improve consumers' lives and firms' performance. Just ask Steve Jobs and all those who rush to buy every new fruit which falls from the Apple tree. How then can entrepreneurs and firms improve their ability to convert inventions into innovations? Professor Jaideep Prabhu gives his views. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All change - crisis as opportunity | As the worst recession in recent history takes root worldwide, managers are doing what they always do in tough times: first they start worrying, and then they start cutting costs. This is a natural response to try and balance the books when revenues have started to dry up and credit is hard to come by, but cutting costs involves only half the equation and ignores a more strategic response that could cause less pain in the short run, and result in more gain in the long run. Namely: to use the opportunity provided by hard times to introduce serious innovation into the business, in particular to innovate the firm's business model. This begs the questions: what is a business model, and what does innovating a business model involve? Professor Jaideep Prabhu explains, using Amazon.com as an example of a successful business model innovation that shook the world. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Value for money' makes the world go round | Professor Williamson believes that in 2009, for the first time, it will be the emerging economies who will be providing 100% of the world's economic growth. Their ability, in particular China's, to successfully unlock access to mass markets by providing affordable 'value for money' new technology, is a key driver of their growth. This cost innovation model, he explains, can offer the West invaluable lessons on how to survive the current global economic downturn. | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can innovation save the world? If so, what will it take to be more innovative? | Firms and governments across Europe and North America are banking on innovation, or the successful commercial exploitation of new ideas, to kick start economies and help save the west from the current economic crisis and looming recession. Professor Jaideep Prabhu at Judge Business School challenges the consensus that legislation at country level is the best way to boost the ability to innovate within firms and countries. He argues instead that in today's rush to innovate, the successful economies will be those whose firms have internalised attitudes and practices that foster innovation into their corporate culture. | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
