Applied Collective Wisdom - the wise and otherwise in management
'All order - no chaos' is a Utopian dream Sometime in early 1990s, at the very beginning of my employment in business, I came across...
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Nilesh Pandit
May 4, 20236 min
Purpose - the oft-unseen foundation of business improvement
It was a small company auditorium with some three hundred employees in audience. The managing director of the organisation, a polished...
Nilesh Pandit
Mar 23, 20235 min
Experience - a vice and a virtue
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. - Lord Tennyson...
Nilesh Pandit
Mar 9, 20235 min
Problems - wicked or tame
A typical conversation: Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Our inventory has gone through the roof! It turns only 3 times! That means we...
Nilesh Pandit
Feb 9, 20234 min
4 ways to minimize bias & improve faster through teams
Bias is not uncommon. Biases are not necessarily good or bad either. It is highly contextual whether a bias is detrimental or helpful....
Nilesh Pandit
Jan 26, 20236 min
The first step to excellence
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it", Thomas Edison. In spite of it often being just a cliché, the concept of value itself...
Nilesh Pandit
Jan 12, 20235 min
4 areas that define management
The more I studied, thought about, and wrote about the scope of collective wisdom maximization, the more did I realize that it is simply...
Nilesh Pandit
Dec 15, 20225 min
Operational Excellence - what it is and is not
As Roger Martin, Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto, says, a strategy is basically a choice. "Making strategy choices is never...
Nilesh Pandit
Dec 8, 20227 min
Introspection - the first step to operational excellence
A typical coaching conversation Coach (me): What are the daily pain points? The client (Let us call him Peter - the General Manager): My...
Nilesh Pandit
Dec 1, 20225 min
Imbalance in management - being reactive or proactive
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." - Alan Lakein Introduction Take a random...
Nilesh Pandit
Nov 24, 20225 min
5 imperatives of visual systems in continuous improvement
A pertinent question As a continuous improvement and change management coach, I have often faced a question from the skeptical or...
Nilesh Pandit
Nov 17, 20226 min
The 3 levels of Continuous Improvement system
Macro - Meso - Micro In every walk of management, macro and micro are two levels often talked about as are the two pictures. The big...
Nilesh Pandit
Nov 10, 20225 min
Lean system - the PPPT view
The system perspective While it is acknowledged, agreed in principle by all and reflected in the broad holistic plans on the projects...
Nilesh Pandit
Nov 3, 20225 min
Simple power tips for A3 - the magical CI tool for lean
A3 methodology, which emanated originally from the Toyota work practices, is a powerful tool for small and medium sized industries too....
Nilesh Pandit
Oct 5, 20226 min
Collective Wisdom - The foundation for lean, six-sigma or any constructive change
Skepticism and probability of success Skepticism is not new to a coach or consultant. Isn’t lean just a fad? Isn’t Just in Time just a...
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