'All order - no chaos' is a Utopian dream Sometime in early 1990s, at the very beginning of my employment in business, I came across...

It was a small company auditorium with some three hundred employees in audience. The managing director of the organisation, a polished...

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. - Lord Tennyson...

A typical conversation: Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Our inventory has gone through the roof! It turns only 3 times! That means we...

Bias is not uncommon. Biases are not necessarily good or bad either. It is highly contextual whether a bias is detrimental or helpful....

"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...

The more I studied, thought about, and wrote about the scope of collective wisdom maximization, the more did I realize that it is simply...

As Roger Martin, Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto, says, a strategy is basically a choice. "Making strategy choices is never...

A typical coaching conversation Coach (me): What are the daily pain points? The client (Let us call him Peter - the General Manager): My...

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." - Alan Lakein Introduction Take a random...

A pertinent question As a continuous improvement and change management coach, I have often faced a question from the skeptical or...

Macro - Meso - Micro In every walk of management, macro and micro are two levels often talked about as are the two pictures. The big...

The system perspective While it is acknowledged, agreed in principle by all and reflected in the broad holistic plans on the projects...

A3 methodology, which emanated originally from the Toyota work practices, is a powerful tool for small and medium sized industries too....

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...