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Three Innovation Lessons From India's Titan Watches

Harvard Business Review

The world's fifth largest watchmaker, it owns 60% of the Indian market, and has been growing robustly. As Bhat went through his presentation, I wrote down the following lessons: "Live" new markets. It would be easy for Titan to focus most of its efforts on deepening its penetration in its strongest market segments.

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How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

The RACI framework offers an excellent real-world instantiation of Jensen’s decision rights approach: Responsible. That is, digitally linking the relevant individuals and teams identified in a RACI review should be straightforward. That transformed the RACI decision rights template. Who is completing the task? Accountable.

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A Bad Reputation Costs a Company at Least 10% More Per Hire

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago, domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy was known for its racy ads featuring NASCAR driver Danica Patrick and The Biggest Loser star Jillian Michaels. Recruiters say that today’s job market is increasingly candidate-driven, for one thing. Today, nearly 40% of GoDaddy’s tech hires are female.