Vijay A. Raju​

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One of the first things we do from a research is to start interpreting the data and generate insights. What we fail to realize is that ‘insights’ are extremely hard to come by ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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I had a good discussion with a friend, an academic, on chatGPT & whether it should be banned from schools & universities. He argued that students are just copy pasting from chatGPT ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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In the fast-paced world of business, innovation often serves as the key differentiator between success and obsolescence. One striking example of this is the remarkable transformation ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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Frameworks have undoubtedly played a crucial role in sizing up situations, providing models, and aiding our understanding of complex problems. However, we must be cautious...

Dheeraj Batra & Vijay A. Raju​

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A decade ago, we worked together  to help a global medical device company launch a new business model innovation aimed at serving the bottom of the economic pyramid ...

Dheeraj Batra & Vijay A. Raju​

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Some of the multi-billion dollar corporations in the world⁠ — even market leaders in their own segment⁠ — struggle in emerging markets like India because their products were ...

Dheeraj Batra​

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Almost everyone who is even cursorily involved with innovation — which more and more of us increasingly are — has heard of phrases like “quick and dirty,” which refer ...

Dheeraj Batra & Vijay A. Raju

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Plastic waste that is improperly managed poses a significant risk of leakage to the environment. Packaging waste, mainly consisting of single-use plastics, accounts for 44% of...

Vijay A. Raju & Aryata Agarwal

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Packaging is one of the main sources of single use plastics. 44% of all plastic waste comes from packaging. In addition to single use plastics, 40% of plastic is thrown out within a ...

Vijay A. Raju & Aryata Agarwal

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According to a report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, if we were to recycle 50% of plastic packaging waste globally by 2025, we could avoid 60% of the greenhouse gas ...

Dheeraj Batra & David Milestone​

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Sad examples abound of inexpensive, lifesaving health solutions failing to reach the most vulnerable in the developing world. Whether it is amoxicillin treatment that is ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase ‘Creative Destruction,’ the premise in which new innovations destroy established enterprises and create new markets. Clayton Christensen, ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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Last month, during the first holiday week of the year for the kids, I met with a minor accident while taking bath in the mediterranean sea in Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice in France ...

Dheeraj Batra​

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Everyone seems to be telling us to move faster. Phrases like “pace of innovation”, “innovate quickly” and “accelerate innovation” have become commonplace. It seems ...

Vijay A. Raju​

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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem. If you understand the problem well, the answer will come out of it because the answer ...