Dev Patnaik

Dev Patnaik

Founder and CEO, Jump Associates

Dev Patnaik is founder and chief executive of Jump Associates, a growth strategy firm. He is also the co-author of "Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy" (written with Peter Mortensen).  Patnaik is a designer and strategic planner with experience in engineering, art design and business theory. He has worked with Fortune 500 firms and fledgling startups in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Australia. An assistant faculty member at Stanford University, Patnaik teaches design research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. He also speaks frequently at leading industry forums on product development, marketing and innovation.

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Dev Patnaik raves about his big ideas: an “empathy dashboard” and–tongue firmly in cheek–a hand pug dog.
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A conversation with Jump Associates CEO and author of “Wired to Care.”
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Jump Associates CEO Dev Patnaik claims the web-based collaborative encyclopedia is the ultimate argument solver.
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Strategic planner Dev Patnaik cautions companies about adopting an open innovation strategy.
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Learning from his mistakes, the author of “Wired to Care” explores how managers can become leaders.
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Jump Associates CEO Dev Patnaik debunks the corporate America myth that some products are only valuable if they’re cheap.
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Strategic planner Dev Patnaik explains why younger generations view goods as disposable, why older generations view them as durable, and how businesses need to re-orient themselves accordingly–or lose teenage consumers […]