- Navi Radjou
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Navi Radjou Born Navi Radjou
August 14, 1970
Pondicherry, IndiaOccupation Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Website www.india.jbs.cam.ac.uk Navi Radjou is presently the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, where Jaideep Prabhu is the Director. Navi is also a strategy consultant to leading organizations worldwide on topics related to leadership, innovation and emerging markets.
Prior to Cambridge, Radjou spent ten years in the US, primarily as Vice President at Forrester Research,a leading US-based technology research and consulting firm. At Forrester, he investigated how globalized innovation — with the rise of India and China as both a source and market for innovations — is driving new market structures and organizational models called "Global Innovation Networks".[1]
During his tenure at Forrester, Navi advised senior executives around the world on technology-enabled best practices to drive collaborative innovation, global supply chain integration, and proactive customer service. At Forrester, Navi published more than a hundred thought-leadership reports on business topics related to innovation and emerging markets.[2] Based on his extensive field research in India Navi published in 2008 a ten-part report series titled "India: The Innovation Giant (Re)Awakens," which explores the innovative business models pioneered by large corporations and grassroots entrepreneurs in India.[3]
Navi has had wide exposure in national and international media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, Le Monde, and Nikkei Shimbun.[4] He is a frequent speaker to senior executive groups and has spoken on the topics of innovation and globalization at leading conferences organised by the World Economic Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, The Conference Board, TiE (Indus Entrepreneurs), Milken Institute, Asia Society, Harvard University, and MIT.[5] For several consecutive years, Navi has served on the international panel of judges for The Economist’s Innovation Awards.[6] In addition to regularly writing columns in Bloomberg Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal, Navi also blogs on HarvardBusinessReview.org.[7]
Named by BusinessWeek as an “expert in corporate innovation,” Navi was also honoured by the Financial Times, which called his co-authored work on National Innovation Networks — the first-ever ranking of countries by their collaborative aptitude to integrate innovation capabilities across multiple regions — as "ambitious" and "sophisticated".[8] Navi’s latest research on "polycentric innovation" — a new approach that multinationals can use to integrate globally distributed R&D and innovation capabilities — has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Global Intelligence for the CIO, and Le Monde.[9] Similarly, Navi’s concept of "indovation"—the unique process by which innovations are developed in India to serve a large number of people affordably and sustainably—has been featured in Financial Times and in several conferences organized by Asia Society.[10]
An Indian-born French national, Navi earned his MS degree in information systems from Ecole Centrale Paris, and also attended the Yale School of Management.
References
- ^ Client Demand Drives Innovation Tie-Ups, Robert Weisman, 4 August 2004, The Financial Express, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/client-demand-drives-innovation-tieups/111961/0
- ^ How Can India Boost Its Tech Economy's Global Competitiveness?, Navi Radjou, 6 October 2008, Forrester Research, http://www.forrester.co.uk/rb/search/results.jsp?N=0&Ntk=MainSearch&Ntx=mode+MatchAllPartial&s=1&Ntt=radjou
- ^ India: The Emerging Innovation Giant, Navi Radjou, 14 October 2008, Forrester Research, http://www.cfr.org/content/thinktank/Radjou_India_Oct14.ppt
- ^ India's Next Global Export: Innovation, Reena Jana, 2 December 2009, Bloomberg Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2009/id2009121_864965.htm
- ^ Cambridge Academics Showcase Expertise at World Economic Forum, University of Cambridge Office of External Affairs and Communication, 6 November 2009, University of Cambridge, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009110501
- ^ The Economist's Innovation Awards, The Economist, October 2009, Economist Conferences, //http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/innovation/judges2009
- ^ More for Less For More: How to Disrupt in the Age of Scarcity, Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja, 22 February 2010, Harvard Business Review, http://hbr.org/search/radjou/
- ^ Countries and companies need to band together in networks, Financial Times, 2007-01-24.
- ^ The New Shape of Innovation, James Lawrence, 19 July 2010, I Global intelligence for the CIO, http://www.i-cio.com/blog/july-2010/polycentric-innovation
- ^ The Age of 'Indovation' Dawns, James Lamont, 14 June 2010, Financial Times
Notes
- Made in India for the 21st Century, Navi Radjou, 28 January 2010, Asia Society New York, [1]]
- Transforming R & D To Win in Global Innovation Networks, Navi Radjou, 1 March 2007, PARC Forum,[2]
- Turbocharging the Franco-Indian Partnership, Navi Radjou, 15 July 2009, Bloomberg Businessweek,[3]
- Polycentric Innovation: A New mandate for Multinationas, Navi Radjou, 2 November 2009, The Wall Street Journal, [4]
- INDOvations, moderated by Navi Radjou, 28 January 2010, Asia Society, New York, [5]
- Managing the New Trajectory of Global Innovation, Navi Radjou, 14 October 2009, Council on Foreign Relations, [6]
- India's Decade of Innovation, Navi Radjou, 16 February 2010, Cambridge Judge Business School, [7]
- Polycentric Innovation Video Interview, IBM, 27 May 2010, Cambridge Judge Business School,[8]
- Creating the Next "Indovations", Navi Radjou, 27 November 2009, India Economic Summit 2009, World Economic Forum,Panel on YouTube
- Made in India, for the world, N Madhavan,12 May 2010, Business Today, [9]
- Do Multinationals Really Understand Globalization?, Navi Radjou, Prasad kaipa, 6 August 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek, [10]
- Talking about Indovations, Nisha Kumar, Kulkarni, 2.12.10, Beyond Profit [11]
Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Puducherry
- Indian business theorists
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
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