2. Crafitti Consulting: Background
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• Crafitti is an innovation research and consulting firm and facilitates innovation in
business, science and technology contexts
• Crafitti is a young firm (started in June last year) and is currently incubated at the NSR
centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM Bangalore
• Navneet Bhushan and Karthikeyan Iyer, the founding directors of the firm, have close
to 30 years of collective industry experience and have been focused on researching
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and facilitating innovation in diverse enterprise contexts over the past decade
• Crafitti’s frameworks are a distillation of this experience and provide a potent platform
to accelerate innovation in contexts as diverse as building innovative business
strategies, conceptualizing and designing new breakthrough products and services,
designing technological alternatives, intellectual property portfolio management,
process innovation and embedding innovation DNA in organizations.
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3. Key Spheres of Influence
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Embedding Innovation
Enabling open DNA , Technology and
innovation, Technology Industry & business strategy,
and business evolution Ecosystem process productivity and
research value generation, IPR
advisory services, Patent
analysis and portfolio
Organization management
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Idea generation,
People Problem solving,
Lean Thinking, Decision making
Systems Thinking, Continuous learning
Value Crafting,
Design Thinking,
Inventive Thinking,
Decision Crafting
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7. What does Crafitti bring
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• Structured and scientific approach to innovation
• Proven methodologies, techniques, frameworks and tools for global
innovation needs
• Innovative business strategies for new ventures – including a unique “invest in
the client” model
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• Research orientation on “Innovation Science”, feeding new and relevant
inputs into emerging technology and business needs
• Holistic offering uniquely positioned to synergize technology, business
strategy, people capabilities and intellectual property
• Rich combination of diverse practical experience in different facets of
innovation in a variety of domains
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8. Directors’ Profile
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M.Tech. Computer Science, M.Sc. Software Science, B.Sc. Physics,
Diploma Intellectual Property Rights Law, Diploma Patent Information
Authored more than forty papers in various journals, and a book on
strategic decision making.
Close to two decades of experience spanning myriad fields like
Navneet Bhushan defense research, innovation consulting, intellectual property
Navneet.bhushan@crafitti.com management, decision engineering and productivity and value
management
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in
Intellectual Property Rights Law
Authored several articles and papers on creativity, product and process
innovation, intellectual property and value engineering in various
journals
Close to a decade of industry experience with impetus on grassroots
Karthikeyan Iyer consulting on product and process innovation, business and technology
strategy and intellectual property management.
Karthikeyan.iyer@crafitti.com
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