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Prepared with Hari Abburi

7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -

Conversations that prepare you for a future yet to be discovered.

In this podcast series, Hari Abburi, Managing Partner, The Preparation Company engages with ideators and thought leaders on a range of topics at the intersection of strategy, technology, leadership and people.

Hari consults with CEOs, CHROs and chief transformation officers on strategy and leadership, people strategy and HR, organization and change. Hari believes that strategy in this new world has to be driven by multi-industry influences. This makes every company a technology, data and a platform business.

Hari is now the Managing Partner for a niche agility-focused consulting firm, The Preparation Company. He is a board advisor of a conversational science start up from San Francisco and teaches his agility-based strategy framework at Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education.
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Episodes

Ep 06: Richard Browning on the Magic of Flying

April 23, 2020 00:36 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

In this episode, Richard Browning, British Inventor, Founder of Gravity Industries and the Jet Pack talk on his journey from imagination, design to making the idea fly. He relates to his inspirations in his life and ideas for the future for the jet pack.    Weblink:https://gravity.co

Ep 05: Irving Wladawsky-Berger on Ai, Intangible Investments and Imagination

April 15, 2020 06:22 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB

Dr Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a Fellow of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and of MIT Connection Science and Adjunct  Professor  at the Imperial College Business School. He was with IBM for 37 years to their internet strategy. He has been an advisor to Citibank, HBO and MasterCard. In this wide ranging conversation, Irvin talks about life in year 2050, predictions Vs decision making in Ai, how human limitations make up for tech...

Ep 04: Dennis Kirwan on why the first and last mile for consumers have merged

April 10, 2020 22:39 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

Dennis Kirwan is the CEO of Dymic Digital, a marketing and branding agency in California. In this episode, we discuss why the current crisis is accelerating innovation and forcing consumers to order just about everything from home... Did Amazon have the last laugh?    Weblink: https://www.dymic.com

Ep 03: Conversational AI - The Future is here, are you in the past? With Saurabh Kumar and Manish Sharma

April 07, 2020 06:53 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB

 Conversations are fundamental human behaviour and building a human-Ai interface that can serve and anticipate needs transform the roles across functions in a company. Saurabh Kumar, CEO and Manish Sharma, CMO are Co-Founders of Actionable Science. In this conversation, Saurabh and Manish take us into the world of conversational AI, applications and its future.   Weblink: https://www.actionable-science.com

Ep 02: Ravin Jesuthasan on Future of Work

March 31, 2020 08:35 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

Ravin is the Managing Director at Willis Towers Watson and recognised as one of the 25 influential consultants in the world. In this conversation he shares his thinking on a range of topics; impact of Covid-19 on jobs, decoding Future of Work, shifts needed in government approach, the need to re-imagine performance management and how to get started thinking on Future of Work. Weblink: https://www.amazon.com/Ravin-Jesuthasan/e/B07JDDGY9W?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

Ep 01: Sesil Pir on Decoding Transformations: Experience to Value

March 31, 2020 08:15 - 24 minutes - 22 MB

Sesil Pir is the Principal Consultant of Sesil Pir Consulting, a leading global thinker on transformations and Future of Work.  She consults with companies on transformations in the new disruptive world and tears down traditional views. In this episode, she decodes transformation in a world of continuous disruption and why human centred leadership is so important.  Weblink: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sesilpir/#2aa28823667f

Ep 00: "Prepared with Hari Abburi" (a brief introduction)

February 21, 2020 11:18 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MB

A sneak peak as to what you can expect from the first season of "Prepared". Your Host, Hari Abburi, Managing Partner of the Global Consulting Firm "The Preparation Company" is excited to share these insightful conversations with you. Thank You for stopping by!