• Business Model , Business Thinking , Focused Execution , Industry Problem , Problem Solving , Theory of Constraints ,
• Tags: business model innovation, Control Panel Industry, Diversification, Electrical Industry, Jugaad, Operations Management, Strategy, Vertical Integration
• 13 Mar

Good times or bad times, there is a tendency to jump at every opportunity without doing full justice to a big enough business in hand. Often organizations try to diversify or open up a link to vertical integration at the first sign of constraint in the current business, only to face bad consequences. Diversification, expansion

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• Business Thinking , Education , Industry Problem , Problem Solving ,
• Tags: higher education, jobs, NMP
• 18 Jun

Pre-2008, India’s GDP grew at 9-10% but during past decade the intake in its engineering colleges has been growing at 100k per year. So we now have 1.5 million engineering seats per year; compare this with 550 thousand seats in 2006-07. While the supply of graduate engineers is too much more than the capacity of

• Breakthrough Performance , Building Manufacturing Competitiveness , Business Thinking , change management , Manufacturing , Operations , Production Engineering , The Path , Theory of Constraints , TOC ,
• Tags: measurement, OTIF, supply reliability
• 06 May

Last Monday when I visited Michael, he said, “We have a big problem… We fared awfully bad in the customer satisfaction survey conducted by a third party. This is despite our OTIF being at 97%.” And then he said, “Unfortunately, an investigation revealed that the OTIF calculated by our customers was between 30 to 44%.”