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
And so Verticalization is the buzz word, as quite a few Indian IT companies undertake corporate restructuring exercises in order to do something about the pessimistic situation they are into. And it is fairly busy time for management consultants like me to lend some insights. So, the problem (or the symptom?) is about too many
Most Business Improvements Need No more than Good Thinking It is normal for organizations to project their growth, based on their past performance. However, this projection is often done blind-foldedly, without realizing the real extent of performance the organization can influence. The inevitable result, therefore, is that organizations fall pray to unexpected poor performance, very
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