C.K. Prahalad News & Articles
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In Rural India, a Sales Force in Saris Delivers Soap, Social ChangeBy John Lancaster The Washington Post CHOLLERU, India–With its open sewers and mud-walled homes, this impoverished farming village of 2,200 in southern India did not look like fertile territory for an entrepreneur. But Srilatha Kadem was undeterred. Oblivious to the midday heat, she marched briskly along the unpaved streets, her cloth bag filled with soaps and shampoos and her heart with vaulting ambition. (more…) Competing For The FutureWhat’s more important to a company’s future, strategy or execution? Execution is the obvious answer. But two well-known strategists, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, plead the contemporary case for strategy in Competing For The Future (Harvard Business School Press, $24.95). An Open Source Model for Creating ValueWorld Economic Forum, Annual Meeting 24.01.2004 Open source means computer program source code that is open to users, explained moderator Georg von Krogh, Director, Institute of Management, University of St Gallen, Switzerland. The idea is that users know their own needs and know best how to improve the code. “The question is, how do we tap into this and could this be a way to rethink innovation in our own companies? How can we give incentive to people to contribute their intellectual property? This is a social phenomenon and economically very interesting,” von Krogh added, noting that 760,000 contributions have been registered as open source to date. (more…) |