Mukesh Gupta's Blog, page 35
May 4, 2020
A Prime Example of Human Creativity, Ingenuity and Resilience
I came across this music video that made me sit up and brought a big, wide, smile. Watch it first here.
This is a prime example of what happens when you bring together people who are willing to test boundaries, explore, stay curious and above all want to express themselves. The choreography, music, the interaction between the panes is simple yet comes alive.
Who said that you cant make music videos when you are physically distanced. Nothing needs...
May 3, 2020
How To Come Out Stronger and Ready to Thrive Post Crisis
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We are already seeing a lot of signals in the economy of the upcoming tectonic shifts and the ripples that they will cause.
We have a record number of publicly listed companies in the US deciding not to give out dividends so that they can conserve cash.
Weve seen announcements from large firms indicating that the majority of their workforce will now work from home permanently.
We have seen businesses starting to cut salaries {and in some cases not...
April 27, 2020
Strategies to Grow During a Slowdown Post Covid 19 Era
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We are all living in an almost once in a lifetime situation with almost entire countries and continents being forced to stay at home due to the current pandemic situation. We are now at a time when almost all the countries are looking forward to gradually opening up the lockdowns and allowing people to restart their work, albeit in a controlled fashion. What this means is that at some point in the next few weeks, every one of us is going to have to...
March 2, 2020
Our Intimacy with Technology Products
Premise: We bought a robotic vacuum cleaner sometime back, one that keeps roaming around your home, around obstacles and vacuums the entire home by itself. You could also set a timer to decide when it will start the cleaning efforts. Within a month of buying it, my wife started referring to the bot as “Kanta Bai” (Bai in Hindi typically means a helper) and even spoke to her, questioned her about where she is heading and having imaginary conversation. Quickly i started doing the same and...
The 10 Rules of Digital Transformation
Premise: In my work at SAP, I support a community of SAP customers in India – INDUS. One of the initiatives of this community is a micro-community of people who are working in their respective organisations around the topic of digital transformation. Members of this community are from organisations of all sizes, differ in their positions in the organisations and also come from varying functions. The passion for digital transformation is what unites them.
They come together on a virtual...
February 17, 2020
The Anatomy and Upside of Boredom
Every now and then I come across in my reading list something that lies at the intersection of being interesting, useful and practical. The below post is one such example. This originally appeared on Aeon, written by Neel Burton and edited by Nigel Warburton. I have written elsewhere (here, here, here and here) about the importance of boredom and how it has an impact on creativity in the least and overall life satisfaction at the most. So, when I came across this post, it was natural for me...
February 14, 2020
A Practitioners View of “The Why, How and What of Breakthrough Innovation”
Needs Based InnovationI came across this video of Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Kate Rosenbluth and her story of how she founded Cala Health.
I think the approach that she has taken to building her startup is probably the approach that I recommend in most cases. So, I wanted to share this video with all of you (my readers). If you are thinking of starting up or building a product from scratch, watch Kate talk about her experience and learn from the approach.
About Cala...January 28, 2020
Game Theory – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust by Haim Shapira
I recently finished reading a book by Haim Shapira – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust. I must say that is probably the best introduction that I could have got to the field of game theory.
Game theory is all about interactive decision making – which is what we do in life day in and day out. So, I believe that it makes sense to learn about the topic and get some insights about games people play and learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes we end up doing and in the process...
January 26, 2020
Starting a Digital Transformation Journey
It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around, usually with the prefix – Digital. At a deep level, I think everyone knows and understands that transformation of any kind is not only difficult but in most cases has an extremely low probability of success.
The term digital transformation is a misnomer which has quite a lot of people confused. It is first and foremost transformation, of course enabled by digital...
January 20, 2020
Being Intentional About our Attention
We now pay for content all the time:
We pay a monthly fee for accessing video content online (Netflix and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing music online (Apple Music and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing magazines online (NewYorker and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for accessing news online (New York Times and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for getting goods delivered to us (Amazon and it’s like) We pay a monthly fee for creating & accessing content online (Medium...
