At Link, we have been working closely with multiple corporates and startups to build an agile, innovative and customer-centric culture within their organizations. We believe in the power of collective intelligence and our wish is to create a community of HR and L&D leaders coming from various backgrounds and industries to brainstorm and share best practices on the future of organizations.
Corporates and startups are often put on extreme polarities when it comes to ways of working, hierarchies, resource utilisation and business potential. In reality, these worlds are merging at a fast pace. This owes to the fact that there is a growing interdependence between the two sides. Knowledge exchange is the need of the hour and there is a phenomenal release of innovation energy creating fruitful interactions when this collaboration happens.
There can be few bigger influences on our national life and prosperity than the effectiveness of water and wastewater management services. Water utilities are progressively faced with the ongoing challenge of doing more with less against a backdrop of powerful regulatory forces, ageing assets, and little interaction with the end consumer. The focus on accurate, relevant, timely information and greater stickiness with the customer is of paramount importance.
HealthTech is the approaching frontier for innovation. The products range from apps and social networks to robots and complex simulators, all sharing a common goal-to leverage new technology to revolutionize an old industry.
Individuals and organizations need to appropriate the cultural and business changes that were born from the digital transformation. To do so, NUMA has developed a series of modules, events and trainings aimed at understanding, and taking advantage of the technological developments impacting us all. Our Learning Expeditions are the most comprehensive way of staying abreast of the latest innovation trends, connecting with the digital leaders of tomorrow and learning how to apply the new working methodologies which will foster your competitive advantage.
In the past few months, as a Growth Hacker at NUMA Bengaluru, I’ve been experimenting with cold emailing. I’m telling you, email is still one of the most effective ways to reach out and leverage a community. I developed a 5-step process to go from cold to warm emails:
In the past few months, I have met many entrepreneurs and startups so passionate about what they are doing, I could feel it. When it comes to explaining what they are up to however, it’s another story — from entrepreneurs who take ten minutes to share their ideas, to startuppers who don’t even share the name of their startups. Ultimately, the worst would be if your audience just doesn’t get what you are doing. It’s really simple to make something complicated, but very complicated to make something simple.
In June 2017, I joined the Google Team France as a Digital Coach for 2 events: Le salon des entrepreneurs in Lyon and Vivatechnology in Paris. I spent 5 fantastic days meeting entrepreneurs, startups and like-minded people. My role was to dive deep into their digital strategy to show them how to master it using Google Tools as well as giving them my insights.
As a startuper or entrepreneur, you may be familiar with this concept more than anyone else, though it’s quite another thing to explain it to people. At NUMA, we have seen so many entrepreneurs driven by their ideas but failed at the exercise of pitching. Therefore we thought we would share a couple of tips we learnt over the years while listening to startup pitches to make a kick-ass pitch.
One of the intriguing aspects of interaction design is the rapidly changing landscape and the overlaps with other disciplines and complex systems. To test and iterate ideas within this milieu, we design our prototyping process as much as we design final products and services.