Kamalini Ramdas is an expert in innovation. Kamalini’s research, teaching and consulting focus is on examining new ways to create value through service delivery innovation, operational innovation and business model innovation. Another stream of her research examines how entrepreneurial opportunities can be moved from seed to implemented product or service. She has served as co-principal investigator on a $1.2M grant to model and implement profitable cardiac preventive care via delivery innovation. She has also examined delivery innovation in an array of service industries supported by a grant from the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Kamalini’s research has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard Business Review, and other journals. She has served as Departmental Editor of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Department of Management Science. She teaches Business Model Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management and Healthcare. She has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin, and has visited the Wharton School and the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum Davos, TEDx London Business School and at a variety of other executive and professional audiences.
In this session you will gain hands-on exposure to what it takes to develop and pitch innovative new business models. I will share a framework for business model innovation that is based on challenging business fundamentals. You will have the opportunity to start thinking about how to apply this framework to unearth new business models. You will gain hands-on exposure on what it takes to develop a winning pitch by assessing new business pitches from multiple perspectives. From this session you will gain insights on:
- How to challenge the fundamentals of existing business models to unearth radically new business models
- How to develop a compelling new business idea
- How to develop a compelling new business pitch
- Disruptive Innovation, New Business Models & Lean Startup
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