Myth-Busting Trailblazers by Pradeep Anand

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The common belief is that trailblazers fail in business. This presentation is about those successful trailblazers I knew personally. I enumerate some of their personal characteristics and highlight a market characteristic that helped them.

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Introduction

The Myth

Myth Busters I Experienced

Characteristics of Myth Busters

A Market Characteristic that Helps Myth Busters

Close

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1978

1994

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1. Take Advantage of Market Activity

2. ImprovePricing 

Effectiveness

5. IntroduceNew Products

4. EnterNew Markets

3. IncreaseMarket Share

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Competition

Customers

Company

Climate

Strategy&

Tactics

Where are we? Where can we go?       How do we get there?

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“You take it on the teeth”

“The first one guy through the wall…it always gets bloody. Always.”

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Research into the history of 66 industries found that companies get limited rewards from being pioneers

Many companies believed to be trailblazers were in fact late arrivals: Kodak in cameras, Xerox in photocopiers, Apple in personal computers 

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Blazes a trail to guide others 

Explores untraversed regions to mark out a new route

Member of a military unit usually of construction engineers

Originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development

First to settle in a territory

Plant or animal establishing itself in a bare, barren, or open area and initiating an ecological cycle

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My Friends from IIT Bombay

Robert E. Brooker, Jr. (NL Industries)

The Landmark Graphics Team

Rich Neuffer (Harsco)

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Hindu College Cultural Festival

Beat St. Stephens (and Shashi Tharoor)

on home turf

Me

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IIMAIIMC

Me

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AmarBhide

JairamRamesh

BharatDesai

Bernard D’Mello

NandanNilekani

Hemant Kanakia

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Opens up new line of thought

Explores untraversed 

regions

Opens up a new line of activity

Blazes a trail to guide others

Opens up a new line of technical 

development

Opens up a new line of activity

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He was intoDisruptive Technology

beforeDisruptive Technology

was cool

We went fromDisruptive Technology

toDisruptive Behavior

RobertE.

Brooker Jr.

Helped open up a technical development

with a new line of thought, activity and new methods

>$2 Billion division 

@ Halliburton

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John Mouton

Roice Nelson

Andy HildebrandOpened up a technical development

with new thought and new methods

Opened up a technical development

with new thought and new methods

Opened up a technical development

with new thought and new methods

Twice;Second Act: AutoTune

>$800 Million division 

@ Halliburton

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Initiated an ecological cycle in barren areas

Aggressive Growthof

Mature Technologies

Client since 1996

RichardNeuffer

As a teenager, participated in the Satyagraha movement; jailedWorking woman at eighteenStarted in market research in early 1950sLed field research teams for most major consumer products through the 1970sModel example of balancing work and homeIrony: She was an introvert!

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Bhanumathi Anand

Blazed a trail to guide others

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Perceive World Differently

Imagine a Different Reality

Overcome Fear of Failure

Possess Social Skills

Patient and Persistent

Continuously Improve Expertise

Ethics/Integrity

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Trailblaze

rs’ S

ucce

ss

Venturesomeness* of  CustomersHigh Low

High

Low

In the gamefor the long haul

*Concept borrowed from Amar Bhide

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You may be sitting/standing next to a successful trailblazer 

Or his father

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