Innovation - Collaboration With the Global Poor

The game is changing. The convergence of rapid advancements in technology, shifting demographic trends and global ism are creating new methods of achieving great outcomes. Professor and author C. K. Prahalad explores how G.E. took a local innovation, designed to help those in the poorest and most remote villages in India and China, and turned it into a global, game-changing product. In his book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, he argues that this is no anomaly, but rather the future of innovation. Watch !

Read Competing for the Future & Create Value

With Competing for the Future, managers have seen how they can reshape their industries. Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for what YOU must be doing today to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. The key to future industry leadership is to develop an INDEPENDENT point of view about tomorrow's opportunities and build capabilities that exploit them. Authors Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic-and successful. Watch Prahalad's talk on Build a Bear and Pace makers as examples of creating value in the "experience" economy. Can we transform our businesses and industries ? We must because there are new fundamental dynamics around creating value that demand rethinking what we believe and how we do things.