Janaki Mythily Kumar
Janaki Mythily Kumar

Janaki Mythily Kumar

Design leader experienced in building, coaching, inspiring high-performance design teams and driving design-led transformation in the enterprise.

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Designing the Future we Want — Tech Trends from #SXSW2018

The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed

Apr 13, 2018 · 8 min read

Moment or Movement?

Wisdom from the Watermark Conference for Women 2018

Mar 6, 2018 · 10 min read

Human Impact of Biased AI in Business — and How to go Beyond

As Andrew Ng, adjunct professor at Stanford, describes it, “AI is the next electricity, and there is no going back.” Just as electricity…

Feb 13, 2018 · 7 min read

Ten Tips to Design Better Bots for Business

On Nov 30th, I was invited to CXxAI — an interactive roundtable for Customer Experience leaders in enterprise organizations. During the…

Dec 17, 2017 · 11 min read

Countdown to 2041: Small steps for big impact

Famed polar explorer, environmental leader, and public speaker Sir Robert Swan and his son, Barney Swan, spoke with the SAP Silicon Valley…

Sep 10, 2017 · 6 min read

Innovation is a journey, not a destination

Successful design-driven companies go beyond using design as a service, and see it instead as a catalyst for culture change and as a tool…

Feb 14, 2017 · 5 min read

What does it take to Innovate?

We like to think of innovation as being at the confluence of technical feasibility, business viability, and human values.

Feb 1, 2017 · 5 min read

Don’t Wait, Innovate!

What is Innovation?

Jan 17, 2017 · 3 min read

Innovation at the Intersection of Art, Neuroscience and Design

If you happened to wander into SAP’s AppHaus Palo Alto on Sept 29th, you may have wondered if you were in the right place. Scattered around…

Oct 5, 2016 · 5 min read

Design Thinking Meets Sketch Comedy

Design thinking is not just a big joke…or is it? I wondered about this recently when I attended a sketch comedy writing workshop led by our…

Aug 22, 2016 · 3 min read

3 Tips to Foster a Culture of Innovation at Work

Wish your organization was more innovative? Here are three tips that could help you be an effective change agent at work.

Jun 30, 2016 · 5 min read

Video & slides from my talk Diversity by Design

Adaptive Path’s Managing Experience Conference 2016

May 2, 2016 · 2 min read

A Recipe for Leadership

If you ask people around you who their favorite/most inspirational leaders are, most likely you will hear names like Steve Jobs, Mark…

Jan 16, 2016 · 4 min read

Empathy at Work

When I was a little girl in India, I used to play this game with my sister. I would mirror everything she did or said, much to her…

Jan 10, 2016 · 4 min read

Innovation in Unexpected Places

A conversation with David Kelley

Nov 16, 2015 · 4 min read

Indian PM Modi’s vision of

Digital India in the

Oct 4, 2015 · 2 min read

Creativity at work

Lets begin with a question:

Sep 25, 2015 · 3 min read

10 Paradoxes of the Creative Person

Most people and organizations value creativity but very few understand it. In this blog post, I will talk about one reason for this…

Jun 5, 2015 · 2 min read

Five Steps to Diversity by Design

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin

May 14, 2015 · 4 min read

Delight in Diversity

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together” — Malcolm Forbes

May 7, 2015 · 5 min read