by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Invention, Marketing, Uncategorized
consumer goods and particularly fashion is subject to constant change. It is perhaps the industry that needs to be the most responsive to changing consumer preferences. Here is a lovely Example to how different retailers both on and offline innovate and change to...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing, Product, Strategy
How do you go about understanding your customer needs ? How do you put a value on those needs. I will write a separate blog on pricing at some future point, but I want to share something interesting. It is an article from Sept 2016 in HBR by Eric Almquist John Senior...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 19, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Invention, Marketing
Does the Sharing economy create radical new opportunities. Airbnb, Sharing assets like property and cars are just the tip of the icebery and the range of related services from validating users/suppliers to related services are going to open a wealth of opportunity and...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 13, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Innovation, Invention, Strategy
Lessons from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant First things first, The purpose of this blog is NOT to Blame any one for the disaster. Anyone familiar with problems knows that there were a series of multiple events. In fact we are quite lucky that...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 13, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Schools of Strategy -which one are you ? For most businesses the planning process or the Plan and control process is usually the annual budgeting process. So the process is typically a five step process Develop Vision & Mission Set Objectives Create strategy or...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 1, 2016 | Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy
Can a product incite you to be truly innovative ? Can you be more innovative than the original or first product I was mentoring and the entrepreneur I was with was talking about product design and it got me to thinking about product development, innovation and...