January 2020

Avnish Sabharwal teaches us how to enable innovation : curiosity and ability to take risks

Last week I had a coffee talk with an innovation leader, Avnish Sabharwal. Avnish shared his expertise and experience of handling strategic alignment for corporate innovation initiatives, the challenges of open innovation and the keys to enable tangible benefits through digital transformation and disruption. For the past six years, he has been leading strategy, investment, and acquisitions as part of Accenture’s Open Innovation program for India. This includes collaborating with start-ups, VCs, PEs, accelerators, incubators, industry bodies, as well as academia for Accenture Ventures. I had the opportunity to pick his brain about intrapreneurship, innovation, and disruption. The round-up of my

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The difference between a great idea and a success, start with your strategy to create and capture value FIRST

Imagine for a minute that you’re one of the Airbnb founders that have put up an exciting story for the new economy and platforms era. Their story is about iterating to find the right strategy to disrupt an existing market with a compelling value proposition. A mix of opportunity, customer insights and an innovative way of solving a unique century-old problem. Just think, consumers were looking for an affordable place to stay anywhere on the planet and people who owned extra space in their home wanted to make some extra money and Boom came Airbnb as a solution. We could

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