Technology Storytelling

16 Jan

There are stories we tell ourselves and our worldview is formed based on those stories. Recently, I worked with a digital and innovation team of a leading multinational corporation and one of the story the team told themselves was, SAP the multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations stands for Suffer After Purchase. Obviously, this…

10 Jan

Storytelling: How Scott Guthrie Handled a Situation in Microsoft ?

Not until you feel the problem, you feel the urge to find the right solution. In their new book The Power of Moments Dan and Chip Heath recommend a strategy Tripping Over The Truth to make people feel the problem. To trip over the truth is to endure an emotional wallop. When you have a sudden realization, one that you didn’t see…

08 Nov

Storytelling: Taking You In To Familiar Experiences

There is senior management meeting coming up and a fairly strong presenter has been chosen to lead the presentation. A day before the presentation I am sitting with the entire team who is responsible for managing the upcoming presentation to the management The presentation serves the purpose of making a case on why the organisation needs to curate a Change Story for…

01 Nov

Business Storytelling: Tech Talk About Connections But Lacks a Human Connection

This blog is part 2 of my blog Tech Talk About Connections But Lacks a Human Connection. In this blog series I am decoding ( decoding = what makes it great ) one of the best IOT presentations I found via online research. The presentation is by Scott Hanselman. The first 5 mins of the presentation decode can be found here…

27 Sep

A couple of weeks ago I worked with a leading technology company on Business Storytelling. I gave a 90 min talk in which I shared some basic principles of Business Storytelling. After my talk the audiences had to take an existing case study they had and convert that in to a story. I heard story after story. Despite an amazing effort by…