Pradeep Henry standing before the Grand Canyon | From an expansive perspective, uncovering surprising connections and aligning them to create transformative impact

Innovation-led business transformer behind key industry shifts

eWeek "Great Mind"
Cognizant "Wizard of Cognizant"
IEEE "Distinguished Professional"
Forrester Interview
CIO Interview
TheWeek Interview
TrendHunter Interview
Info-Tech-Research Interview
Times of India Interview
Financial Express Interview
ACM Critical acclaim
eWeek "Great Mind"
Cognizant "Wizard of Cognizant"
IEEE "Distinguished Professional"
Forrester Interview
CIO Interview
TheWeek Interview
TrendHunter Interview
Info-Tech-Research Interview
Times of India Interview
Financial Express Interview
ACM Critical acclaim

INDIA'S NATIONAL TREASURE

Ilaiyaraaja

Valiant is Ilaiyaraaja's full Western classical symphony, recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, then performed live in London by Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.

Ilaiyaraaja is the most prolific song composer in human history — 7000 songs for 1500 movies. Since the 70s, his timeless songs have been touching hundreds of millions of people in India.

Elon & Ilaiyaraaja are aliens given their unmatched contributions

3 high-stakes transformations CEOs valued

 Transformed a low-value TCS practice into a customer-satisfying, new revenue stream Transformed India's software industry by pioneering customer-centric development

As CEO, you value hard truth —
As Advisor, I delivered a $25 million hard truth

Pradeep Henry appointed Advisor for US startup seeking $25M funding

3 published innovations global CEOs valued
Innovations overview Over 200 global customers across hundreds of projects European university does further research on my innovation App GoodScore

Creativity or cryptomnesia 🤷


Developing contributors CEOs value

 US patented inventor: Kshama Vijayakumar People developed: via direct training of team members, via global thought leadership, via university course, via conference hosting Invited to review international conferences by Strategic Management Socity, USA App CredPad

Sharing business logic CEOs value

 The Corporate Gift: Walt Wikman, CCC Information Services Chicago VP, receives my 1998 US-published book from a Cognizant CEO The Executive Chapter: Get Technology to Contribute to Business Strategy The Strategy Translation Series: 28 articles about turning situational challenges and opportunities into transformation initiatives

Columbia & Berkeley

University professional training University professional training

Recognition

 Interview, biographies, positive book reviews

PHenry08@gsb.columbia.edu

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