BIG IDEA Video Library

Anil Gupta talks about this next decade's gamechangers, from economics to climate change to individuals, in his Thinkers50 Big Idea.

Niraj Dawar, author of the book "Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers", discusses the shift in focus from products to customers and brands.

Quality’s Impact on A Nation’s Economy

Home Creation of Brands

The Future of Pricing

Small Data

Arenas

Intelligent Failure

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Game Changers – Companies changing the world in their own vision.

Strategy is problem solving, not charts and plans.

Integrative Thinking. Create a solution that combines elements.

Distinguishing between expectations and reality.

Erica Dhawan, author of the book "Get Big Things Done", talks about the power of connectional intelligence in her Thinkers50 Big Idea.

Steven D'Souza, the author of "Not Knowing" (with Diana Renner), discusses unknowing and uncertainty and what it means for business.

Conducting Business with Other Cultures

Executives need to be self-aware.

40% of people work outside organizations – how can organizations respond? Implications for how can they organize people? Leadership.

Understand the core ingredients for game changing companies. They need 3 capabilities: be purpose driven,  have performance edge, guided by a set of enduring principles.  Putting the three together is the next big idea. 

Laurent Muzellec, Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, explains his research in brand to consumer interaction and the history of “moment of truth”.

Enrique Dans, professor at IE Business School and author, discusses how to utilize social media and social cycles to inspire company innovation.

Relationships are to the social era what efficiency was to the industrial era. Onlyness. That place where only you are standing and can create anything.

Mark Esposito, a professor at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, discusses a new way to measure economic growth across the business spectrum in his Thinkers50 Big Idea.

How technology and globalization are reshaping the world economy. Executives – be smart, be open.

Navi Radjou talks about frugal innovation and how companies can profit from developing high-quality products with fewer resources.

Alf Rehn, the Chair of Management and Organization at the Abo Akademi University, discusses the nomenclature that revolves around "innovation" and how it might be changing the way we view it.

Juan Pablo Vazquez, a professor from the IE Business School, talks about making entrepreneurship more predictable and successful.

Alessandro di Fiore, the founder and CEO of the European Center for Strategic Innovation, talks about his Thinkers50 big idea: companies that continuously innovate and are able to earn more revenue than their competitors.

Design Thinking (combines analytical and intuitive thinking) to keep on innovating

Jugaad Innovation. For difficult conditions. More value, less cost.

Change actions to create innovative ideas.

As we get enthused about business analytics, we must be aware of the limitations of science in business. You cannot use analytics to create or predict a future, other than to extrapolate from the past.

Brian Robertson, author of Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, discusses his Thinkers50 Big Idea: how we can restructure companies to leave behind the management hierarchy.

Subir Chowdhury, author of The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Business Results, talks about how organizations can save money and improve efficiency through a simple acronym.