Vijay Govindarajan

Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, supercomputing, and...

How to innovate and execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different...

At the intersection of reverse innovation and design thinking, you can find opportunities to create innovations that are Global by Design. We are living in an era when innovators must turn their sights to the global stage as never before, to both solve wicked problems facing the world and...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan, comes a new, comprehensive playbook for developing your corporate strategy for the future. In his seminal book The Three-Box Solution, Vijay Govindarajan offered an amazingly simple and highly effective...

To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the...

Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation are changing-and if you want your firm to survive, you'd better pay attention. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book. Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are...

How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen. Written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. This story resonates in organizations of all types—public...

Change is constant—so become great at it. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on change management, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review  articles that will help you lead initiatives effectively, avoid common mistakes, and...