The cover theme of the November-December issue is ‘Troubled Times, Telltale Signs’. Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes, Accenture executives, present a new approach to innovation management in the face of rapid disruption. Muniinder K Anand, Managing Director India & South Asia of Center for Creative Leadership, explains how employee morale and productivity are vital indicators of organizational health. Henk W Volberda, Professor at Amsterdam Business School and Director of Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation, and Kevin Heij, senior researcher at Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation, make the case for business model replication or renewal. Professor Satish Modh, Director of VESIM Business School, deconstructs how resilience can hold an organization together during a crisis. An exclusive interview with Rita McGrath, Associate Professor at Columbia Business School, delves into the art of spotting inflection points before they happen.
The Smart Manager, India's first world-class management magazine, was founded in 2002 by eminent business historian Dr Gita Piramal with Harvard Business School Dean, Prof. Nitin Nohria with the mission of updating managers and business practitioners in India with the latest thought-provoking strategic ideas from experienced, world-class managers, academics and consultants from across the globe. Over the years, the magazine has carried articles authored by illustrious management gurus such as the late CK Prahalad and Sumantra Ghoshal, Jack Trout, Ram Charan, Gary Hamel, Gay Haskins, Jagdish Seth and Lynda Gratton. We believe that "managers are the best teachers of managers" and most of our articles are written in the first person by top-tier CEOs such as Kumaramangalam Birla, Sunil Mittal, Aditya Birla, KV Kamath, Santrupt Mitra, Rajeev Dubey and S Ramadorai. We also have relationships with a number of B-schools around the world, apart from most top-level schools in India. The Smart Manager hosts the Tata Consultancy Services Smart Manager Case Contest, the most prestigious competition of its kind in the Indian print media. The contest, with a cash prize of INR50,000 per issue, sees wide participation from national and international business managers and students. The 'Smart" in The Smart Manager is an acronym for Strategy, Marketing, Analysis, Resources and Technology. Truly useful knowledge when you need it 24 x 365, year after year.
