Category: Strategy

Innovation, Strategy, transformation

The 10 Rules of Digital Transformation

Premise: In my work at SAP, I support a community of SAP customers in India – INDUS. One of the initiatives of this community is a micro-community of people who are working in their respective organisations around the topic of digital transformation. Members of this community are from organisations of all sizes, differ in their positions in the organisations and also come from varying functions. The passion for digital transformation is what unites them. They come together on a virtual meeting every month for about 90 minutes to listen to a thought leader or a practitioner and their approach to […]

Strategy

Game Theory – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust by Haim Shapira

I recently finished reading a book by Haim Shapira – Gladiators, Pirates and Games of trust. I must say that is probably the best introduction that I could have got to the field of game theory. Game theory is all about interactive decision making – which is what we do in life day in and day out. So, I believe that it makes sense to learn about the topic and get some insights about games people play and learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes we end up doing and in the process learn about some strategies […]

Ideas, Personal Growth, Strategy

Book Review – Indistractable by Nir Eyal

Overview: I got a digital preview copy of this book via NetGalley. This book is all about how to handle distractions that are hurled at us from all directions. What is the book about: In his previous book – Hooked, Nir shared the framework that could be used to build habit forming products and in this book he shares strategies for consumers to avoid getting sucked into the habit forming products that were built using the framework he shared in his previous work 🙂 He is candid in sharing that he found himself constantly distracted by all the things that […]

Strategy

Book Review – Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read. The stories and the insights from the stories follow one after the other. The stories keep the reader interested and the insights from the stories allows us to learn from these stories. What I loved about the book: We are living in a world where there are inflection points coming […]

Strategy

Strategy to Execution to enable Intelligent Enterprise

Premise All organisation have a stated strategy – one that they would like to execute on. However, most organisations are not able to execute the stated strategy, which leads to the organisation not being able to live up to its potential and deliver what they promise to their stakeholders. So, where do things go wrong?   For any strategy to get executed, there are a series of things need to happen: Strategy definition process (ongoing): The process used to define the strategy needs to take into account the current reality of the organisation – its strengths and weaknesses, the prevalent […]