At around 1100am on Sunday 29th July 2012,
My thoughts keep revolving around two sets of information bytes that I was fortunate to receive during the week that went by. While there is no apparent connect between the two sets, I continue to doubt if they are indeed unrelated.
The first set of information relates to, how the world of commerce, especially the Indian part, is managing to acquire and manage intellectual property, and what challenges it continues to face in the process. Impressive indeed, when one listens to the systems being evolved or adopted, especially the collaborative work between the regulators, government agencies, judicial agencies, the legal communities and the innovators, themselves! And the second set of information relates to the failure of monsoons and the resulting prospects of a drought situation in India. Media reports paint a gloomy picture of an adverse economic impact as well as dire sustenance nightmares for millions of marginal farmers.
So where do I see the link between the two? To me the connection is the unevenness of institutionalised innovations happening in the government and corporate segments.
For starters, the need to innovate and ensure that the 24x7 systems that are being established to institutionalise innovation, in most of the leading corporate businesses in India, are also replicated within the entire hierarchical pyramids within Indian government agencies.
Why cannot industry captains such as Adi Godrej, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Kiran Mazumdar, Anand Mahindra, Ratan Tata, Azim Premji, Chanda Kochar, and others spend 1 fortnight every quarter adopting “non-related” government departments or agencies to mentor young bureaucrats to become 360 degree leaders and enthuse them to be more innovative? Perhaps they can also encourage their own senior colleagues to actively scout for similar roles with performance appraisals being tagged to such initiatives.
Any takers? Any rebuttals? Happy to know your views, so please share them with me.
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