Insights

Welcome to our Insights!

It’s your space to explore latest insights from our on the ground experiences with our clients, in-depth thinking and practical solutions to various challenges faced by business leaders like you.

We bring in new perspectives, differentiated, innovative thinking, learnings, minute observations & information from our own practical experiences that you will find valuable while you strive for excellence and growth in your business.

Our objective is to provide you grounded and practical knowhow that you can apply in your business environment and reap its benefits.

So stay tuned and visit us on this page for building your arsenal to stay ahead in your game.

ThoughtWorks

Pivoting your Annual Operating Plan around Performance, Pays Better!

“Creation of Annual Operating Plan involves tedious templates, endless financial forecasts, haggling over targets, and struggling for data and resources. This article emphasizes the need for business leaders to pivot their annual planning around performance not around forecasted earnings.”

Redesigning your Organization around the Decision Needs of your Strategy!

“Companies often under appreciate or misapply the power of reorganization, a critical tool for success. As the business landscape evolves rapidly, adapting to external changes becomes paramount. This article emphasizes the need for organizations to align their operations, structures, and leadership with the ever-shifting context.”

Rethinking Performance Management for Achieving Higher Alignment & Trust!

“Traditional performance management, rooted in a century-old paradigm, has undergone changes but no longer aligns with contemporary employee expectations, the dynamics of modern work, and the pace of change. This article emphasizes the need for a re-evaluation of your performance management process and offer practical insights to drive higher engagement, alignment & trust.”

Crafting an Effective & Enduring Employee Value Proposition!

In contemporary times, as business leaders we are coping with the need to improving employee experience, enhancing the skills of the workforce, expediting digital transformation, and comprehending and integrating a younger generation of employees with distinct values. This article offers insights and key pointers to designing and implementing an attractive employee value proposition.

Transitioning a Family Run into a Successful Professional Run Business!

Multigenerational family businesses often face a crucial moment where the current generation recognizes the need for a non-family leader. This article offers insights and experiential knowhow on defining key foundational elements to enhance the success of the transition to a professional run business

Weaving a string of Strategic Initiatives can reduce the gap between your ambition and achievement!

Most companies have ambitious plans for growth. Few ever realise them. There is a persistent gap between ambition and performance achieved. One of the tools to reduce this gap is to weave a string of strategic initiatives.

Should you be interested, you can learn in a step by step manner in this article on how to develop your strategic initiatives that delivers significantly improved business performance.

Set the foundation of your transformational change with Strategic Alignment!

Often, organisations are faced with the challenges of ensuring strategic alignment across levels of the organisation that impacts its overall performance.

Establishing strategic alignment in place to propel a well-defined strategy is the foundation for any transformational change

This article talks about to steps you need to take to establish a structured approach to ensuring your strategic alignment & solving alignment issues at different levels within your organisation.

This article offers insights and key pointers to designing and implementing an attractive employee value proposition.

How to conduct Performance Appraisal effectively to foster meritocracy!

If you’re an executive, manager, or team leader, one of your toughest responsibilities is managing your people’s performance. How do you appraise just how well your direct report has carried out his/her job?

This article provides recommendations on how to conduct it effectively and drive positive change

Developing Manufacturing Strategy with Alignment & Resonance!

Business leaders heading manufacturing face unique problems and pressures to successfully meet the business objectives.

Unfortunately, the problems in company’s manufacturing departments frequently surface at the same time as the problems in the rest of the company. In most cases, there is a manufacturing change complexity coupled by respective business leader’s reluctance to change.

This article provides recommendations on how to develop manufacturing strategy with Alignment & Resonance.

Should you be interested, you can learn in a step by step manner in this article on how to develop your strategic initiatives that delivers significantly improved business performance.

Your Functional Strategy is finding the Unique Role Your Functions Require to Play!

The need for strategy at a functional level is less widely understood. Most business leaders accept the notion that corporate and SBU’s only need strategies.

In-fact in many firms, functions just exist, serving the company in whatever manner and at whatever scale the business unit demand.

This article provides clarity on why you should develop your functional strategy and how do you go about it.

Measures you choose to evaluate your business performance has an impact on your Business. Here’s how!

Choosing the measures to evaluate the performance of the business goes hand in hand with the business strategy. Having said that, business leaders struggle to match their strategy design with their performance measurement.

In this article, we have covered common traps that you may fall into and how to avoid them?

Arresting the Growth Decline & Reversing Stall-Outs!

Managing the dynamics of rapid growth is an enormous challenge for business leaders—especially in young enterprises and the initiatives within enterprises alike.

Most successful companies eventually face a predictable crisis that is called Stall Out—

This article provides recommendations on how to deal with Growth Stall-Outs and what steps to take to reverse your company’s fortunes.

Culture is your Flywheel of Performance!

A company’s culture significantly influences its success, value, and approach to change, emphasising ethical behaviour and employee well-being. Altering this culture can empower a company to attain seemingly unattainable objectives.

This article mentions how can you aim for meaningfully change your organization’s culture in a defined time period.

Building New Capabilities is Building New Engines of Growth & Competitive Advantage!

Beneath the surface, it’s evident that attaining robust and continuous top-line growth is becoming more challenging. The strategies employed in recent years to boost revenue are losing effectiveness, signalling an end to their role as the cornerstone for sustained, double-digit growth.

This article talks about to be able to unlock your growth, you will have to identify capabilities that can propel your growth forward. How do you go about it?

Business Performance is accelerated when Individuals are aligned with the goals of the organization to drive continued growth and success!

Most CEO’s and Business Owners arrive at a solid plan that takes advantage of market opportunities, technology advances etc.

They get their board and the leadership team aligned around it.

They have also reorganized the structure- new divisions, revised roles, redesigned processes to support their strategy.

Still there is a lingering worry. Yes, it is about their People.

This article provides an actionable process called “Bold AIM” as one of the approaches can help you improve alignment.

Case Studies

Transformation Through Performance Management

This client had grown with > 33% CAGR for a decade. Now they have reached a critical stage where they prepared their minds for bigger jumps. They knew that a bigger jump needs a stronger foundation. Here’s what they chose to build as their first organizational initiative that touched all their business processes. Read their journey as they took the step towards building a stronger foundation.

Reviving Organisation through Structure Transformation

The client, one of the most reputed sports clubs incorporated in the early 1930’s over last decade lost its purpose and the senior most respected signatories and members were creating a lot of noise on deteriorating member services, thereby impacting the image of the club. Read this transformative case study to know what did the club do to restore its image and fulfill its member needs!!