What’s common between GigaOM, Kingfisher Airlines and PepsiCo? Probably several things (or nothing?). But in unrelated reading, insights linked up, as insights tend to do..
In this wonderful February 2011 piece on GigaOM, Om Malik writes about changing the DNA of a company. And he argues about how tough that is – but its possible instead to identify the bad behavior – which is creating the drag – and steadily change those behaviors. That’s very tough too… but possible.
In an unrelated piece, in the January 2012 Forbes India issue, Samar Srivastava …

In Calcutta a few days before Christmas, December 2011, Ashoka India brought together Fellows from the North and North East around a thematic workshop with Innovation Alchemy. The theme was ‘Scale’. The issue of increasing the IMPACT of the work that the Fellows are implementing through their diverse initiatives.
The two days of engagement was a quick immersion into the complex Development world of the North East. The region is perceptibly isolated from the rest of the country, politically, geographically, economically… A brief research of the core challenges in this part …

Simpa Networks has evolved a ‘Progressive Purchase‘ model for solar electricity, lighting up rural homes through a flexible payment option. 
The International Energy Agency estimates that about 1.5 billion people around the globe do NOT have access to electricity and 85% of these people live in rural areas.  In India, close to 40% of the country’s population still lives with limited access to grid electricity. This is not to say that rural India is in complete darkness. The up-front cost of procuring clean, affordable energy is high and so several parts …

The Alchemix Community of Innovation Practice

Session 4 brings together 6 speakers, 60 participants in Bangalore and over 500 viewers* around the globe via the live stream – for an interactive 2 hour discussion.

The focus this time was on businesses and organizations that are applying the power of social energy: social platforms, tools, media and connects in a way that impacted their core business model.
 
The Premise for the session: Organizations are starting to use social tools in innovative ways, going beyond just ‘online presence’ and this is defining the evolution in harnessing …

Woke up early to head for a run and looked through the twitter feed on my phone in an early morning habit.
I couldn’t move. Its strange how sadness can be a physical weight. Some days must never dawn. Tears rolled down in heartbreak for the loss of a man who I had never seen in person, never met in my life – but with whom I co founded my company in 2009.
Its a personal loss for me, and probably for millions of other people who have dared to dream up …