The New Age of Innovation
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Permanent link to this post
Finally it is here - three years in the making - it will make its debut on May 16th 2008. What is it you ask? It is the book that is destined to become a bestseller (and I know 'cause I have read it :-) - check out the Amazon page of The New Age of Innovation by Prof C K Prahalad and Prof M S Krishnan.
I have seen this book take shape for more than three years now. Prof Krishnan is of course my PhD advisor and I had the opportunity to do some background research for the book for him. This also meant that I could read all the work-in-progress manuscripts. At the end of this process, now that the book is finished and about to be launched, I have this immense sense of pride that comes from a job well done. Prof Prahalad and Prof Krishnan have achieved the holy grail of business books in this one - marry the top level vision with an implementable roadmap. This book is not just about the lofty ideas and strategic foresight (which it has in plenty, as you would expect of any book with Prahalad on the cover), it also goes deep in IT and Operations issues of how to implement the strategy - how to get the value and not just talk about it.
The book is available for pre-order on Amazon for 20 bucks. Run and reserve your copy. Now!
Labels: Books, Krishnan, Prahalad
That's quite interesting actually, i'll have to check your site again in order to see what else you come up with now. ;)
I worked at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and then went on to freelance. It really is interesting seeing how a book comes to life, and being able to see the work published and know you had a hand in it, even if your name doesn't show. Good post, I'll have to look around for this one.
Cataloging my library
Monday, November 20, 2006 Permanent link to this post
I came across this really nice website that helps catalog personal libraries: LibraryThing. I always wanted something like these to keep a record of all the books I buy or read. I am slowly indexing all my books. You can check my library at this link.
The site also provides this wonderful widget to put in blogs. You can configure this widget to show many interesting things. Right now if you look on the right hand column of this blog - you will see a random selection of books from my library. You can click on them and that takes you to Amazon, where you can read about the book.
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The site also provides this wonderful widget to put in blogs. You can configure this widget to show many interesting things. Right now if you look on the right hand column of this blog - you will see a random selection of books from my library. You can click on them and that takes you to Amazon, where you can read about the book.
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