INDIA: A Billion Dreams Rise from the Dust
Contents: Part-1: Resilience: The Spirit of India. 1. Royal Enfield Bullet: Rules the Roads Once More! 2. Ford India: A Hindustani Model-T! The Resilience of a MNC in India. 3. Hamara Chetak: The Quintessential Indian Scooter! Signifying the Indian Spirit. 4. Hari Bhari Recyclable: Disruptive Innovation to Improve the Society. 5. UX Gorilla: The Design Thinkers! Building an Innovation Ecosystem. 6. Autobot India: The Future is Here! Porterian Wisdom and the Hindustani Spirit. Part-2: Road to Hell. 7. The Valley of Death. 8. The Nine Devils Every Entrepreneur Must Face. 9. The End of a Generation. 10. The Value of Deep Thinking: Heart of Entrepreneurship. 11. Hope of Deliverance. Part-3: Strategy Revisited: From 3S to 3I. 12. Nature of Competition: Now and Then. 13. I For India, I For Innovation. 14. Being Good, Being Original: The Value of First-Hand Research. 15. Vision — Mission — Core Values. Three Most Misunderstood Words in Management. 16. Why Innovation Efforts Fail? 17. The 1-2-3 of New Product Development Strategy (Observe-Reflect-Introspect). Part-4 Resilient Thinking: Building the 3-C Framework 95. 18. Resilient Thinking: Deriving its Basic Tenets. 19. The 3 C's Framework: An Introduction. 20. Grounding it in Academics: The Regenerative Dynamic Capabilities Theory. 21. Building One's Own Theory. 22. Coordination: Winning Hearts. 23. Collaboration: A Team Beyond The Four Walls. 24. Co-Evolve: Stretch to Combine the Opposites. Part-5: Short Case Studies. Part-6: Case Teaching Notes: Building a New Set of Core Competencies (Translating Theory into Practice). Part-7: The Concept of Counter-Intuition: The Art of Making the Impossible Possible.
This book promotes a framework - the 3-C framework and through a series of disguised case studies the book demonstrates actual use of the framework. It can be used as a textbook for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship in academic institutions. It will also be useful for trainers in management field and by academics in management schools for conducting management development programs in innovation. The 3 C framework described in the book can be used by corporate executives to accelerate innovation efforts and build new core competencies to launch high growth new businesses.
Key audience of the book: - budding entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs within large corporates, management and engineering students, academic researchers with innovation as key research interest, faculty and corporate trainers in innovation field.
