http://www.ckprahalad.com All articles related to management guru C.K Prahalad. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:45:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By 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 ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/03/29/in-rural-india-a-sales-force-in-saris-delivers-soap-social-change/ What'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). Most companies have operational strategies to help increase profits and market share, ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/09/competing-for-the-future/ World 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 ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/09/an-open-source-model-for-creating-value/ The Brazilian economic journal Valor recently interviewed University of Michigan professor and The Next Practice founder C.K. Prahalad about business strategies for the base of the pyramid. The full interview, translated from the Portugese, follows below. C.K. Prahalad: We can take Brazil as an example. One of the largest ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/07/the-prahalad-interview-brazils-valor/ By Pete Engardio, JANUARY 23, 2006 How strategy guru C.K. Prahalad is changing the way CEOs think Take a cab ride through Bombay, and these are the scenes that will likely strike you first: raggedly dressed homeless families sprawled on blankets amid shacks. Traffic hopelessly clogged with every manner of soot-belching vehicle ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/03/business-prophet-2/ April 2004 FastCompany Page 63 By: Alison Overholt Illustrations by: Grady Mcferrin In the early 1980s, Michael Porter gave us Competitive Strategy and told us what fueled the engines of corporate growth. A decade later, C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel told us to mind our "core competencies." In the ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/02/smart-strategies-putting-ideas-to-work/ Aug 19th 2004 From The Economist print edition C.K. Prahalad thinks there can be a win-win relationship between business and the poor “IF WE stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/02/01/profits-and-poverty/ C.K. Prahalad has spent most of his life thinking about how companies run. He has consulted to the likes of AT&T, Philips Electronics, and Sony Prahalad read a book about the history of the potato and how its eventual spread transformed the world. Somehow, it made him think differently about ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/01/31/the-genius-that-is-c-k-prahalad/ University observes annual King SymposiumMonroe Street Journal, MI - Jan 16, 2006The 19th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium kicked off last Monday with renowned Ross professor, CK Prahalad delivering the opening speech. ... India votes for Anil Ambani in DNA pollDaily News & Analysis, India - Dec 30, 2005... The list includes ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/01/29/university-observes-annual-king-symposium/ Foreign Policy, May/June 2004 Searching for new customerseager to buy your products? Forget Tokyo’s schoolgirls and Milan’sfashionistas. Instead, try the world’s 4 billion poor people, the largestuntapped consumer market on Earth. To reach them, CEOs must shed old conceptsof marketing, distribution, and research. Getting it right can both generatebig profits and ... http://www.ckprahalad.com/2006/01/29/selling-to-the-poor-by-allen-l-hammond-ck-prahalad/