Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Retrospective of Shyam's Writing 04-28

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Retrospective of Shyam's Writings.





Image credit : Shyam's Imagination Library


Here is a mini retrospective of my writings for my new followers and friends. These are  the
articles that have earned immense respect for me from my audience over the years. I have segmented the articles domain wise for reader convenience. Hope you like it.

Here the most viewed and adulated articles.

Some of my best articles on Mindfulness are








Technology advance and Humanism


One miss and South Korea gets demolished, South Korea has right to dignified existence, especially when it has done no wrong.


The Kalam I knew and worked with (About Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Lead India 2020 Foundation.)









































Capacity Building and development












































Social Entrepreneurship and Social Media 












































 













WHEN YOU COMMENT ON LinkedIn POST OR COMMENT PLEASE 'mention'
 Social Media Posts

























 
Human Resources, Career, Hiring, Manpower Management


  



























































 
Self Esteem and Motivation


 








Building Self Esteem from a state of despondency& frustration, and how it adds to your performance













 



Learning Teaching Comprehension Education




























 

Strategy, Innovation, Management, B-Schools, MBA, CEO, Others




















 

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation 04 -14

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The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation






This book is about Strategy Innovation and Business Models.

This book is a must for you, whether you are a Business School, Management Faculty, Management Professional or a Business owner.

The author Professor Vijay Govindarajan (VG) has requested me to promote this book among my friends and contacts. I am trying to do my bit, firstly because it is an excellent tool to practice innovation and strategy and secondly because I owe a lot to VG by way of the learning I have received through his works and lectures.

Prof. Vijay Govindarajan serves on both Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business faculty. He is Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School and Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business Hanover.

About “The Three Box Solution”

We need critical and some times even competitive skills sets to keep a thriving business growing and still keep reinventing it. Doing both simultaneously is a challenge, that many executives find it hard to cope with.

Even Ambidexterity falls short of making an executive capable of handling both. A simple tool is needed to equip managers to work on both the aspects on day to basis. VG thinks that there is a third equally big problem which is highly intractable, and that is to forget the yesterday’s values and beliefs that make the organization stuck with the past. VG feels that “The Three Box solution” is a strategic solution for these problems. It also aligns the organizations and teams on the same plane for innovation.

 How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business--one that is still thriving--while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization's energy, time, and resources--in balanced measure--across what he calls "the three boxes": Box 1: The present--Manage the core business at peak profitability;



Box 1 :  This deals with the process of running the core business efficiently at peak and using linear innovation within the business model to extend brands and /or offer new products.

Box 2: The past--Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation; Box 3: The future--Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses. The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples--GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services--and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.



Box 3 :  This deals with the methodology for generating breakthrough ideas and converting them into products and  businesses. The non linear future is built by experiments that tests assumptions and resolves uncertainties. New thinking either strengthens the idea or reveals its weakness.



With the three boxes kept in balance a business can change dynamically in time.  By controlling the behavior of the boxes, organizations can make inventing future a daily activity over a period of time rather than making it a one time do or die activity. Simply put the future is shaped by what is done or not done today. 

Inspiration from Hindu mythology and the Trimurti of Brahma Vishnu and Mahesh. VG links very interestingly to Hindu  mythology to "The Three Box Solution

 Please read further to find it out for yourself.

 "In Hindu faith, the three main gods are Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma. Vishnu is the god of preservation, Shiva is the god of destruction, and Brahma is the god of creation. The triumvirate of familiar Hindu deities corresponds to the work of sustaining a thriving business. Like Vishnu, the firm must preserve its existing core; like Shiva, it must destroy unproductive vestige of the past; and like Brahma, it must create a potent new future that will replenish what time and circumstances have destroyed.

Hindu myth makers paired each of the three gods with symbolically relevant wives. Vishnu whose wife is Lakshmi, who bestows wealth, just as Box 1 produces current profits. Shiva's wife is Parvathi, who symbolises power, a vital Box 2 necessity when selectively destroying the past. Brahma is betrothed to Saraswti, who symbolizes creativity and knowledge-the critical inputs for Box 3 innovations and wellspring of future profits.

According to Hindu philosophy, creation-preservation and destruction is a continues cycle without beginning or end. Each of three gods plays an equally important role creating and maintaining all forms of life.

Further the Hinduism states that, while the changes can be quite dramatic, the processes leading to those changes are quite evolutionary involving many smaller steps. Consistent with this philosophy, the work of sustaining an enterprise is a rhythmic and dynamic process on that never ends.

I have never before encountered an organization that has encoded the Three-Box Solution is not its organization scheme as Mu Sigma, a rapidly growing decision science and big data firm with head quarters in Chicago and development center in Bangalore. Inspired by the stories from Grandmother from mythologies, Mu Sigma founder and CEO Dhiraj Rajaram has used the three main deities of the Hindu faith to conceive a sustainably harmonized approach to the cycles of preservation, destruction and creation."


A Tool Kit is also provided for the implementation of “The three Box Solution”








The book is published Harvard Publishing



In India the book is available at www.amazon.in



Price : 

hard Cover :   Rs. 746

Kindle edition : Rs. 1,310



In United states it is available  at  www.amazon.com



Price :

Hard cover: USD 20.71

Kindle : USD  19.72




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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Mckinsey award for HBR article.

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As a member of Advisory Panel Harvard Business Review, I was requested to select my choice of article for the Mckinsey award among the four nominated articles and place the four articles in the order of merit as per my perspective. I have already sent my opinion to them.

I am now sharing the articles with my friends and contacts. I have a large of number management professionals among the 2500 followers & friends on LinkedIn. I am just sharing this articles with them to know their insights on the articles and as to how they will rate them. My listing of the articles is random and does not give any indication of merit.

About the awards

The HBR McKinsey Awards, judged by an independent panel of business and academic leaders, commend outstanding articles published each year in Harvard Business Review. The awards were established in 1959 to recognize practical and ground breaking management thinking.

The opinions will of course not go the HBR.

My friends can express their opinion with reasons through comments on LinkedIn or on  this page. Your opinions will be very valuable for me. You can just write the numbers like No. 4 is first, No.1 is second etc.


Thank You and now the articles. Just click the title to read the article.


1. Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge

Authors Martin Ihrig and Ian MacMillan


2. Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust

 Authors Timothy Morey, Theodore “Theo” Forbath, and Allison Schoop


3. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 2.0

Author  Guhan Subramanian


4. Engineering Reverse Innovations

Authors  Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
Please read the articles and give your opinions. Your views can be as long as you deem necessary. I will read every opinion.

 Thanks and Best Wishes,

 Shyam
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Available For Guest Lectures from March 2016 onward 12-12

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I am now available for Guest Lectures in India and other countries.
I have returned to India from Canada.. I will be in India at Hyderabad for the academic session 2016 – 2017.

Academic Institutions can contact me for Guest Lectures.

It is a well-known fact that I have been participating in the research projects of Harvard Business Review, MIT, Mckinsey & Co, Deloitte, and other organization.

Based on my participation in research on subjects like Digitization, Business Analytics, Digital Branding, and Customer Engagement, Strategic and Design Thinking and other topics. I am totally updated with the latest trends in relation to these subjects.

I have created curated and shared many articles on these and other subjects on my career blog. You can view the different topics in my knowledge domain at my virtual library Knowledge Korridor

You can have details about  some of the premier institutions where I have delivered the guest lectures on my LinkedIn profile @  https://ca.linkedin.com/in/fouress

The broad list of topics on which I can deliver Guest Lectures are

Business Analytics

Mindfulness & Human Values

Digitization

Design Thinking

Strategy

Balance Score Card

 Project Management

Social Entrepreneurship

Business Models

And other management topics.

 Teaching, Learning, Metacognition, Comprehension.

I am prepared to travel to small towns and rural places in India.

I am prepared to accept invitations from institutions in other countries also. However, the institutions have to arrange for Visa and other travel documents. I hold an Indian Passport.

For more information, you can contact me at the following email id. cbdsee@gmail.com . Please write details about your institution. Please attach images and media files if you feel necessary. 


I will try to reply within one week.

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