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Book Review: Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Gopinath

There are 3 main challenges in scaling up a business once you get past the start up stage: 1) Growing the capabilities of the leadership team 2) Installing a scalable infrastructure to manage the complexities that keep increasing with growth … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Gopinath

Traditional product development approach does not work well in a complex, uncertain and volatile business environment. The tendency to increase the efficiency of each step in the development process by working with big batch sizes of work items (specifications, design, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: High Performance Operations

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Hillel Glazer Published: 2011 Publisher: FT Press Buy from Flipkart Acknowledgement : I thank the author and the publisher for sending me a free pre-publication copy of this book and seeking an honest opinion of mine through this blog … Continue reading →

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What The Customer Wants You To Know

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Ram Charan Published: 2007 Publisher: Penguin Group Buy from Flipkart This book by Ram Charan, an internationally acclaimed management consultant, is primarily targeted at Sales function in organizations. The book highlights what is wrong with conventional approach of selling … Continue reading →

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The Goal II – It’s Not Luck

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt Published: 2005 Publisher: Productivity & Quality Publishing This business novel is a sequel to the book The Goal which had introduced the concepts of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and shown its application in a manufacturing scenario. … Continue reading →

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Six Sigma Pricing

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Gopinath

Authors: ManMohan S. Sodhi and Navdeep S. Sodhi Published: 2008 Publisher: Pearson Education This book is very relevant for the product companies. Product companies set a list price for their products. However they also allow their sales team to offer … Continue reading →

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