Vijay Govindarajan, appointed by General Electric to guide its innovation strategy, is also Professor of International Business and Director of the Tuck Centre for Global　Leadership. An expert on strategy and innovation, he has been cited by Business Week, Forbes, and The Times as one of the world’s top strategy and innovation thinkers. GE appointed him for his expertise in balancing innovation with maintaining the best existing practices.

Professor Govindarajan has gained international attention for helping organisations deal with the downside of total quality management and other excellence frameworks: how building in ‘repeatable excellence’ can stifle creative thinking and get you stuck in the moment.

He has identified five barriers that prevent large companies engaging in breakthrough innovations. He teaches how to overcome them and sustain big growth with clever but simple practices that he calls ‘adjacency innovation'.

‘VG’, as he is known, is Winner of the 2006 Accenture Award for his work on Organizational DNA for Strategic Innovation. His recent book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, is a Wall Street Journal Top Ten Recommended Read.