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Future happens at the Fringes

What if your next big growth opportunity isn’t hiding in your average customer—but at the edges?

Businesses focus on their largest segments and most common behaviours. But the future often shows up elsewhere first—in the workarounds, unusual use cases and “niche” customers that are easy to dismiss.

Because today’s outlier may just be tomorrow’s mainstream customer.

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Prakash Nedungadi Prakash Nedungadi

Transparency Creates Pressure. Action Creates Better Customer Service.

Making customer feedback public can increase transparency and accountability—but visibility alone does not improve customer experience. The real opportunity lies in turning feedback into meaningful, actionable insights that empower employees to improve customer service every day.

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What One Entrepreneur Taught Me About Becoming AI-Native

What does it really take to become an AI-native business? Lessons from entrepreneur Sonal Shah show how purpose, hands-on leadership, employee development and redesigned processes can make AI a driver of customer value, individual capability and business growth.

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Customer Happiness: The Next Competitive Advantage for Banks

Most organisations focus on reducing customer complaints. The leaders go much further. They create customer happiness—and in doing so, build employee pride, stronger loyalty, and a self-reinforcing cycle of better business performance.

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Will a 5-Star Rating Make Customers Choose Your Brand?

Do industry star-ratings really help brands grow?

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency just announced a proposed 5-star rating system for electric two-wheelers.But for a business or brand in a new category, there is a larger question:

Will a better star rating make your brand more preferred?

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Beyond India, Digital and AI: The Real Growth Opportunities for CEOs

Growth is becoming harder for many businesses. Demand is uneven. Competition is intense. Capital is more selective. And yet, three powerful growth drivers are already shaping the next decade: India’s growth, Digital and GenAI. These trends were clearly outlined in an outstanding talk on the India Opportunity by @NandanNilekani at a session to @FiresideVentures Investors.

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Back to Basics-1 FBV Ladder

“Let’s get back to basics.” When growth starts getting difficult, business leaders often go looking for sophisticated answers. But very often, growth comes from something far simpler: Fixing the fundamentals. In this episode of RedVent: Your Growth Story, Prakash Nedungadi revisits one such basic that many brands and businesses still get wrong — the Features–Benefits–Values (FBV) Ladder.

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When Growth is Challenging, Insights are the Answer

When markets are challenging, what separates the growth-winning companies from the others? Not just execution excellence, but the ability to spot and uncover hidden customer value....through INSIGHT!

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Unlock Hidden Growth in your Value Chain

In this episode of RedVent: Your Growth Story, Prakash Nedungadi explains why one of the most powerful—and most under-leveraged—growth opportunities lies in an unexpected place: your value chain.

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Union Budget Key Takeaways- 3 big growth implications

The Indian Union Government’s Budget announced earlier this week sends a clear, if understated, signal to business leaders: This is not a Budget driven by an extraordinary government-led growth push. It is one that prioritises stability, fiscal discipline, and steady momentum. What does this mean for businesses who want to ACCELERATE Growth?

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Beyond 10x Productivity: A CEO’s Guide to GenAI Strategy

We are in the middle of a transformation in human capability that we have not seen before.

GenAI doesn’t transform capability by merely “using GenAI”. It demands new routines, redesigned workflows, changed habits, and shifts in structures and culture.

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