Tag Archives: Innovation

Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Life of Steven Paul Jobs (popularly called Steve Jobs), the co-founder, former Chairman and CEO of Apple Computers, who died recently has been described in glorious terms. In the past few days, much has been written about his life and legacy, and I don’t think I can add anything new to what has already been said. [...]

Should Companies restrict Employees’ Social Media use?

It is not uncommon to see companies restricting (or even worse, banning) use of Social Networking sites by their employees. I don’t think that this is a step in the right direction. If companies can trust their employees to run business, can’t they be trusted when it comes to using Social Media in an acceptable [...]

Social Media: Platform or Provocation for Innovation?

Wanted to share two great panel discussion videos on “Social Media: Platform or Provocation for Innovation?” organized by USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. Both are “long” videos, first one is 1 hour and 25 minutes and second one is 1 hour and 40 minutes. So without wasting any additional time on intro, I [...]

Social Media and Employee Engagement: Case Studies

Social Media can be effectively used “internally” within an organization to engage employees, the way it is used externally to engage customers. I want to share with you a good Slideshare presentation by Polly Pearson of EMC on Social Media: Strategy & Execution that has several good case studies on internal Social Networks. Notice the [...]

What DARPA’s Red balloon contest can teach Social Media Pros

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. This challenge required participants to discover exact position of 10 large, red weather balloons that DARPA placed at undisclosed locations across continental United States. The first person or team that identified all the locations correctly [...]

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

Excellent TED talk by Kevin Kelly on the World Wide Web. WWW, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Kelly asks how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days? View the video for more:

Howard Rheingold on collaboration

Excellent TED talk by Howard Rheingold on coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action. Very relevant in the context of Social Media

Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

Excellent Video: TED talk by Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity. Must watch given Social Media Collaboration context.

What is your Tribe and will it change the world?

Excellent TED talk by David Logan on “Tribal Leadership”

TED talk: Seth Godin on the tribes we lead

Excellent TED talk by Seth Godin on “The tribes we lead”:

  • About Dr. Harish Kotadia


  • Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.

  • Dr. Harish Kotadia has more than twelve years’ work experience as a hands-on CRM Program and Project Manager implementing CRM and Analytics solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the US.

    He also has about five years’ work experience as a Research Executive in Marketing Research and Consulting industry working for leading MR organizations.

    Dr. Harish currently lives in Dallas, Texas, USA and works as Social CRM/CRM and Analytics Consulting Lead for Infosys Technologies. Views and opinion expressed in this blog are his own.




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