Management Team

Dr. Ashutosh Khanna

Dr. Ashutosh Khanna
Founding Partner, Strategy

Dr. Ashutosh Khanna

Dr. Khanna holds a PhD in Innovation and Information Systems from the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, U.K. He further has an MSc in Analysis Design & Management of Information Systems from the LSE, U.K. and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University. He has over 20 years of rich experience in consulting, academia and entrepreneurship in U.K., Europe and India including Technology-Startups, Innovation Strategy, Intellectual Property & Rights Management.

 

Currently as Chairman – Center for Disruptive Innovation and Enterprise [CDIE] and Associate Professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the International Management Institute – New Delhi, he is pioneering the Innovation Audit Framework along with various other projects. He is part of the core team of the SSOL@IIT-Kanpur; and is involved in developing innovative solutions focusing on Economic, Food, Water, & Energy Security. He is popular as a reader of contemporary Corporate & Business Strategy and Business Modeling.

 

He is passionate about promoting Entrepreneurship; the use of mobile phones as a service and governance delivery platform for its potential reach and providing a possible solution to the problem of “access” in the digital divide debate; and issue of data, privacy, intelligent & learning systems in this the age of networked intelligence.

 

Research, Consulting & Training

Innovation Audit; Idea Management Systems; Corporate Start-up (/Innovation) Fund; Strategic Innovation; Business Models & Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship (Corporate and Start-up), Physical & Social Technology Innovation; Governance; Value & Growth

 

Collaboration; Overlay networks; Socio-economic networks; Corporate Peer Networks; Information & Prediction markets; Personalization; Activity Systems & Commoditization

 

Intellectual Assets & IPR, the Public Domain & the Commons; IP Strategy.

 

Some themes / narratives being developed:

  • Currency & Capital creation and distribution in India: local & Decentralized
  • Business as a sub-set of Culture.
  • Bharat: A cultural-economic network of production and innovation in need for multiple productivity enhancing interventions: like technology, management & reasonably priced and abundantly available capital

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