Biography
Dr. Simone Ahuja is a strategist, bestselling author, speaker, and entrepreneur— she is the CEO of Blood Orange, a consulting company which helps firms address disruption, and behave like startups by leveraging a fast ans frugal innovation methodology for moving ideas to execution. Simone co-authored the international bestseller, Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth (2012), called “one of the most comprehensive books yet” on the subject of frugal innovation by The Economist. She also is an Harvard Business Review HBR.org columnist and serves as an advisor to MIT’s Practical Impact Alliance.
Simone has advised dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and her work has been featured in top media outlets, such as Fast Company, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Strategy + Business, Entrepreneur, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Business Week, The Economist, and Economic Times.
She provides keynotes, consulting services and interactive innovation labs to organizations in including P & G, 3M, Stanley Black and Decker and the World Economic Forum.
Her new book, Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways To Hack A Better Business – Before The Competition Does (Harper Collins Leadership), will be published on January 2019. In this book, Dr. Ahuja delivers a clear set of tools and a practical playbook for cultivating the essential practice of intrapreneurship and describes the competencies of successful intrapreneurs —and the ready-to-implement principles of organizations that know how to support them to unlock a spectrum of organic innovation.
Simone and her family live in Minneapolis, USA.
Expertises
- Stratégie business
- Innovation
- Leadership
Languages
- English