Comments on: What and where is innovation in India? http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/ Hello World ! What are the hacks that you need today ? Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ajitesh http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/#comment-60790 ajitesh Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:13:49 +0000 http://rajan.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-60790 Rajan, your post sounds interesting. Word "innovation" has off late lost its meaning. And "Innovation" to produce "Compelling value creation" is a lot more difficult. As, innovation at times could be self-centered and look geart idea in itself but does not have much capability to create compelling value for society in general. For me "innovation" should not only get initiated with absolutely fresh out of the world idea. However, I also see innovation as "existing things done in a different manner" ultimately to make users life simple. For that matter, cell phone does the same thing as land line, but creates a compelling value owing to its nature of being mobile. Anyways, as pointed by Jaya, most of the sessions....:) AND, Innovation is easier said than done..We all have a tendency to fall in love with our idea..which is truely human! However, a real innovator keeps in mind "Can I bring smile on users face" and truely innovates! cheers Rajan, your post sounds interesting. Word “innovation” has off late lost its meaning. And “Innovation” to produce “Compelling value creation” is a lot more difficult. As, innovation at times could be self-centered and look geart idea in itself but does not have much capability to create compelling value for society in general.

For me “innovation” should not only get initiated with absolutely fresh out of the world idea. However, I also see innovation as “existing things done in a different manner” ultimately to make users life simple. For that matter, cell phone does the same thing as land line, but creates a compelling value owing to its nature of being mobile.

Anyways, as pointed by Jaya, most of the sessions….:) AND, Innovation is easier said than done..We all have a tendency to fall in love with our idea..which is truely human! However, a real innovator keeps in mind “Can I bring smile on users face” and truely innovates! cheers

]]> By: Jayakumar http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/#comment-59839 Jayakumar Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:25:40 +0000 http://rajan.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-59839 Thats a very interesting post Rajan! Most of the sessions/panel-discussions/communities are doing nothing but "intellectual-masturbation" (sorry for the term here. I didn't find better one to describe the current situation of tech industry). Many of the folks don't even have clue about what does it take to innovate in the tech industry. This is mainly because nobody "been-there-done-that"! On the other end, the tech industry need look on other businesses (Example: TVS motors) and learn how to do "real" stuff. Thats a very interesting post Rajan!

Most of the sessions/panel-discussions/communities are doing nothing but “intellectual-masturbation” (sorry for the term here. I didn’t find better one to describe the current situation of tech industry). Many of the folks don’t even have clue about what does it take to innovate in the tech industry. This is mainly because nobody “been-there-done-that”!

On the other end, the tech industry need look on other businesses (Example: TVS motors) and learn how to do “real” stuff.

]]> By: Sangfroid http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/#comment-59838 Sangfroid Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:11:26 +0000 http://rajan.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-59838 hehe ... that resolution would be difficult to stick to :-P hehe … that resolution would be difficult to stick to :-P

]]> By: Ashish http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/#comment-59832 Ashish Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:59:45 +0000 http://rajan.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-59832 Hey Rajan "I am going to pledge that I am going to walk out of any discussion/meet where the words ‘Innovation’, ‘Community’ , ‘Value creation’ & Mobility is going to be used where the group discussing this has no idea of what these words are." - so that means you will be out of TiE, Nasscom, Proto, Headstart, and whole lot of other events !! :) Jokes aside, I completely agree with you and infact, I would rather say that innovation (be it technical or business process) is not at all happening in tech scene (max 10 companies one can count who are doing some interesting work)...and the real 'stuff' is happening elsewhere! -Ashish Hey Rajan
“I am going to pledge that I am going to walk out of any discussion/meet where the words ‘Innovation’, ‘Community’ , ‘Value creation’ & Mobility is going to be used where the group discussing this has no idea of what these words are.” – so that means you will be out of TiE, Nasscom, Proto, Headstart, and whole lot of other events !! :)

Jokes aside, I completely agree with you and infact, I would rather say that innovation (be it technical or business process) is not at all happening in tech scene (max 10 companies one can count who are doing some interesting work)…and the real ’stuff’ is happening elsewhere!

-Ashish

]]> By: Attended Proto 08 « Living on the Edge http://rajan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/what-and-where-is-innovation-in-india/#comment-59830 Attended Proto 08 « Living on the Edge Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:55:18 +0000 http://rajan.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-59830 [...] Proto 08 I could finally make it proto. Despite my general disappointment about the innovation scene in the technology space I think that events such as Proto and Headstart [...] [...] Proto 08 I could finally make it proto. Despite my general disappointment about the innovation scene in the technology space I think that events such as Proto and Headstart [...]

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