Ranjani

Ugly baby and the Beast – The story of balancing innovation and business value

The Ugly Baby and the Beast.Innovation drives growth. Run-the-business, the bottom-line.So, what should you focus on? One of the conundrum’s leaders face is ‘how do we balance innovation with driving business value’? We all know the very famous founder of Pixar – Steve Jobs but we might not have heard of the co-founder, Ed Catmull. One …

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Web 3 – How to win the future : a16z 2021 report

“2020 for web3 was the year 2000 in internet terms” in terms of user growth. Web3 is “group of technologies that encompasses blockchain, cryptographic protocols, digital assets, decentralized finance and social platforms, NFTs, and DAOs—is the third generation of the internet” This A16z report makes some great points about the future we are headed, role …

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Trust. Web 3.0. Metaverse and the Future of Human Race – Part 1

Trust. Web 3.0. Metaverse and the Future of Human Race A Thread – Part 1 #1 If you think about it deeply, co-operation is the basis of the rise of human civilization. #2 As nomadic hunter-gatherers, our trust to watch out for each other was primarily social. Over time, this translated into ‘institutional trust’. Think …

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[Podcast] – Roadmap to Analytics and Data science with IIM – Visakhapatnam

Honored to chat with students at IIM – Visakhapatnam on the landmark 10th episode of ‘V-POD’ – IIMV Podcast Series Best wishes to the Business Cluster of IIM Visakhapatnam on successfully completing the 10th Episode. The series is available on Spotify, Jio Saavn, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts! Link here – https://anchor.fm/v-pod1/episodes/Episode-10–Ranjani-Mani-e15s1ja  

[Fire side Chat] – On Analytics, AI and the future of tech with IIM – Ahmedabad

It’s always exciting to talk to students. And nostalgic too. I come away hopeful and enthused about the future of tech. In this free-wheeling conversation we discussed a gamut of themes – from understanding what analytics in real-life looks like, does everything require AI, how folks from PM/consulting backgrounds can add value to data science …

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Understanding Butterfly Effect – A new perspective to markets, behavior and life

‘In one of Stephen King’s greatest books, 11/22/63, a young man named Jake discovers a time travel portal which leads back to 1958. Jake deduces that altering history is possible. However long he stays in the past, only two minutes go by in the present. He decides to live in the past until 1963 so …

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Owning the Customer Experience Value Chain – End to End Operators

Owning the Customer Experience Value Chain – End to End Operators Do you remember contacting people with Yellow Pages? This evolved further where you could find a carpenter online but the process of contacting them remained largely offline. Then came the marketplaces that allows the transactions to occur online. Battery Ventures has this brilliant article …

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