Shareathon 2018: Celebrating Business Storytelling

Shareathon 2018: Celebrating Business Storytelling The Institute of Product Leadership’s annual business storytelling event, Shareathon, sees enthusiastic participation from executives across the board every year. This year, 150+ professionals and students came together at the CMRIT Bangalore campus to celebrate the power of effective storytelling for business. The event began with a workshop on Mastering […]
Rise of the Data Engineer

Rise of the Data Engineer Metamorphosis of an Engineer to a Data Engineer The life of an average Indian student is caught in the web of traditional engineering. In the anticipation of building a comfortable life, all hopes are placed on an engineering degree. So much so that an engineer in the family is like […]
Faculty Focus – Shaleel Nalakath

It’s All About The Person in Front of Me… “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities” – Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot Someone who loves to work with people, rather than with things or numbers couldn’t have chosen a better profession. Shaleel Nalakath is a seasoned Coach who conducts sessions […]
Why Has Business Education Failed Business

Why Has Business Education Failed Business This article [Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers] by Rana Foroohar based on her book “Makers & Takers: The Rise of Finance and Fall of American Business” talks about the state of business education in the US. For my friends in India, I am […]
The Rise of the Data Smart Manager

The Rise of the Data Smart Manager The next generation of business leaders will be ones who master business, technology and data. Data Smart Professionals are much in demand, with McKinsey&Company predicting 1.5 million open positions for Data Smart Professionals in 2018 for US alone. Let’s face it, not everyone can or should become a […]
Essential Skills of Data Science professionals

Essential Skills of Data Science professionals If you are new to this post, please read our previous blog here before continuing further. In the previous blog we saw how Data Science is the century’s hottest career. But how to break in to this intimidating space? Asking questions is easy. But the answers are not always […]
Building A Career In Data Science

Building a Career in Data Science If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine, said Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO. We have data and we have it in abundance. The world has just realized the importance of looking at it closely. Data overload or information […]
The Problem We Solve is the Question We Ask

The Problem We Solve is the Question We Ask Just before 2017 came to an end, a Google Internet connectivity balloon crashed in Kenyaand landed on a farm. As the article states, it caused a little panic. Fortunately, there was no damage to life or property. Most of us are familiar with what Google has been […]
Design Thinking Is A Key For Product Management

Design Thinking Is A Key For Product Management Muthuraj Thangavel, a Product Manager at SAP Labs and a senior coach and mentor for the topics of Design Thinking, Customer Engagement & Business Model Innovation. Passionate about new product development and business innovation, he holds a USPTO patent and is a recognized speaker who has delivered […]