• book review , Business Thinking , change management , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Organization Transformation , People Management , Problem Solving , Sales ,
• Tags: buy in, HBR Press, iim bangalore, John P. Kotter, kotter, Lorne A Whitefield
• 28 Jul

During past couple of months the library at IIM Bangalore got a large set of books from HBR Press. Last week when I walked in, I picked up ‘Buy*in’ by John P. Kotter and Lorne A Whitefield. Kotter is an authority on change management and has made significant contribution in ‘speeding up’ change management in

• book review , Breakthrough Performance , Focused Execution , Operations , productivity ,
• Tags: productivity and quality publishing, Quality, quality management
• 16 Jun

After a longtime, I thought of reviewing books on Quality Management. The 2009 version of the book, is a pretty handy guidebook based on Dr. Kume’s vast experience with the TQM movement. He recognizes, the more rapidly changing characteristics of marketplace better than when he wrote the first edition. Thus he places 1.effective response to

• Breakthrough Performance , Business Model , Business Thinking , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Managing Growth , Operations , Organization Transformation , Problem Solving ,
• Tags: business model canvas, Business Model Generation, business model innovation, dilemma, leverage point, LongTail, operations, rationale of business, thinking process
• 15 May

Costly mistakes are not necessarily made in complex terrain. We find it repeatedly that organizations make simple decision making errors that have catastrophic impact on their business. This post connects to a caselet that gives a glimpse of such a simplistic error, that is not uncommon. It then, tends to expose a larger issue of