One of my hobbies is to study innovation and gather innovation frameworks. When you look at the instruments of innovation, you get ideas to borrow from. A bit of background – I conduct workshops on exploring innovation and mentor innovation cells at colleges (two so far). So, when I found the largest innovation initiative in […]
Some Thoughts on Service Business vs Product Business in Software. 1. In a service business, the customer tells you his problem and you provide a solution. In the product business, you discover a set of customers with a problem and come up with a solution. Or you dream up an idea and find customers who […]
I keep getting this question a lot – why don’t we build products like many US companies? We at Chennai, do not yet have a product culture, like they do in Silicon Valley or Boston or Austin. When we don’t have something we need, we should go ahead and create one. Creating an eco-system is […]
At the panel on Scaling Businesses at TiE Chennai Unconference on Sep 18th. The Panel The panel consisted of three charter members of TiE and two eminent people one from Thoughtworks and one from a Govt body. Chandu Nair – ScopeKnowledge J. Krishnan – Founder Unimity (popularly known as JK) Sudeep Jain (IAS and chairman […]
We had great un-conference, the first ever in TiE Chennai, yesterday. The energy and enthusiam were awesome. It is nice to see people engaged, deep in discussions. The whole thing was self organized. You decided the topics, you participated in discussions, you hung around in hallways and started conversations. There were some great discussions. I […]
The duties of the Data Scientist will include, but not be limited to: Designing and building new processes for large and complex data sets Thinking strategically about uses of data and how that interacts with data design Designing and implementing statistical data quality procedures around new data sources Performing data studies and data discovery around […]
Nothing gives a better picture than a picture of what people want to talk about. So here is the latest Topic Cloud of the TiE Uncoference, in black and white. I decided to investigate a bit further into the text of what people wanted to discuss. So with the friendly python and NLTK toolkit, I […]
If you are a technology based start-up with an idea for a product, you have to ask yourself a few questions. Here are some questions that come to mind. How will you find : Whether some one will use the product if you build it? Whether anyone will pay for your product? Whether the product […]
How do you stay competitive? By leveraging emerging technologies. By having a strategy for Competitive Technical Intelligence. What the heck is that? There is an entire book written about it, but here is the essence in 3 bullets. Use technology intelligence to anticipate competitors’ capabilities and intentions Select the right technologies to investigate and track […]
This is brilliant. May be worth experimenting in a few classes especially since we are trying “project based learning”. Will it work for all subjects? instead of lecturing about polynomials and exponents during class time – and then giving his young charges 30 problems to work on at home – Fisch has flipped the sequence. […]