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Dev Patnaik

CEO, Jump Associates LLC
Dev Patnaik is the CEO of Jump Associates, a hybrid strategy firm focused on growth that helps companies create new businesses and reinvent existing ones. When Dev is not at Jump, he moonlights down the road at Stanford University as an adjunct professor, where he teaches innovation methods to design and business school students. A frequent speaker at business forums, Dev was featured on CNBC's "The Business of Innovation." And his articles on strategy and innovation have appeared in several leading publications, including BusinessWeek, CNN, Fast Company, and Forbes. He is also the author of Wired to Care, a critically acclaimed book about the connection between empathy and business growth.

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Reinventing the MBA: 4 Reasons to Mix Business With Design Thinking A conversation with the author and dean of Rotman School of Management Roger Martin reveals why schools need to include design when teaching business. Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009
Embrace Your Small Ideas for Big Impacts Nothing can kill innovation faster than the performance anxiety that results from outsized ambition. An ode to the little ideas that matter. Posted Fri Aug 28, 2009
Widespread Empathy: Rewiring Your Corporation for Intuition Companies that make empathy an easy, everyday, and experiential part of work inevitably outperform their peers. Posted Thu Aug 27, 2009
Crafting Your Own Innovation Strategy: The Who, What, and How If companies seek to innovate sustainably over time, they need to understand who they focus on, what they should make, and how they actually conceive and develop new products and services. Posted Wed Aug 26, 2009
Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking The true secret to innovation can be found in "hybridity," the conscious blending of different and disperse fields of thought--which doesn't always have to include design. Posted Tue Aug 25, 2009
How Real Innovation Moves the Needle In the wake of the financial disaster, it’s entirely legitimate to wonder: Is innovation relevant anymore? Posted Mon Aug 24, 2009

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