Thought Leaders in Big Data: Naveen Sharma, Chief Innovation Officer, Retail, Xerox (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Sounds like you have back office services. That’s one of the emerging direction or already in-swing direction for the company, since you are already generating a good $10 billion in revenue from that part of the business. What’s interesting about that business? Where are points of views emerging around the big trends in

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Naveen Sharma, Chief Innovation Officer, Retail, Xerox (Part 1)

We have two interesting discussions in this interview with Naveen: one about Big Data and a second one about Corporate Incubation. As you know, in 1M/1M, we’re working on Corporate Incubation quite extensively. Naveen throws light on Xerox’s strategy. Sramana Mitra: Naveen, let’s start with a bit of your background and also by setting the

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: A Vision Well Worth Pursuing

Here is a review by Indu Kodukula from Menlo Park, California: “Ms. Mitra’s Vision India 2020 book is a great roadmap for turning the current promise of India into something that’s more permanent. Many of the ideas make tremendous sense, have market relevance and if implemented can change the center of gravity of technology innovation.

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The Creative Economy

By guest author Soren Petersen When you use creative professionals, you can achieve huge monetary as well as emotionally gratifying results. When these teams are successfully managed, profits from creative teams grow exponentially. One example is Apple’s value growing 1000% over the past 10 years. However, it takes a proactive effort. If you give up

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Positioning Discussed On BlogTalkRadio

Kenneth Darryl Brown and Sramana Mitra recently discussed her book Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market on BlogTalkRadio’s The Passionate Entrepreneur! You can listen to the entire interview here. Positioning by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com and Flipkart.com.

EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy

I know I have a lot of readers from the EDA industry. Once a hotbed of innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation, it is an industry that is now moribund. VCs and angel investors have all but abandoned the industry, and those private companies that exist find it difficult to create lucrative exits, a phenomenon that

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping Can Be Successful

Joanne Lang with AboutOne posted the following about Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 2) on Amazon.com: “I was not sure what to expect from this book; however, I read it cover to cover on a flight. It was interesting and provided some useful tips and quotes for a team meeting.

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Fostering Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Another good review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 on Amazon.com: “An excellent book by Sramana on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries, notably India. The author’s first hand experience in education and professional pursuits lend credibility to the lessons enumerated in the book. It should be a useful and enlightening guideline for India’s

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