How to stand out from the crowd
As a mentor to several young and ambitious professionals, I am often asked, “What should I do to stand out from the crowd?”. I usually respond to the question with a question of my...
Author: Chandan Joshi
The Volkswagen crash: picking up the pieces
(Disclaimer: As a strategy consultant, I have advised Volkswagen on a few occasions. However, this work has been completely unrelated to the current crisis they face, and I do not draw upon any information...
Global competitiveness: what makes an economy great?
Like it does every year, the Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently released its Global Competitiveness Report for this year. Since its launch in 2005, the WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) has been...
How 3-D printing can save lives
3-D printing is a technology with the potential to change the world. As a strategy consultant to technology companies and as an angel investor and mentor to tech startups, naturally this is one of...
Are you ready for Imitation Game 3?
I’m sure some of you’re wondering, “Wait, what happened to Imitation Game 2?” No, Hollywood has not released Imitation Game 2, but the real world of computing is rapidly moving to Imitation Game 3,...
How to own the world
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts …” Shakespeare’s immortal lines beautifully...
Winter is coming!
Games of Thrones character Jon Snow is quite convinced that his imaginary world is heading into a long winter, if not into extinction (which, by the way, may not be such a bad thing considering how dystopian...
Don’t think “Customer is King”
Coming from someone who majored in marketing during his MBA and was trained by P&G in marketing, this headline is not just provocative, but borderline heretical. During my formative years (well, professionally speaking) I was incessantly...
A new paradigm for business
Businesses need to source four kinds of inputs to bring valuable products and services to the market: intellectual, financial, physical and human inputs. Once a product is made with these inputs, it is sold...
Being OK is not OK
My wife decided to check out a new restaurant in Singapore a few months ago (and I went along meekly, needless to say). As with most major world cities, Singapore’s restaurant scene is fiercely competitive. We had...
