I was talking with my friend John, and he casually said, “Venu, I have put our team dinner photos on our fridge!” and I see them every day”. “You stuck them to the fridge? they were so many, and perhaps all over the fridge, no wonder you don’t miss us?” I said affectionately. “No, my […]

Big data means more information – more information with the additional objective of providing it at a greater speed than before. We already complain that we suffer from too much data and while failing to use it effectively. So, big data alone isn’t necessarily the answer to a more successful outcome. There are many challenges with […]

Many organizations that attempt to transform their business, follow the business-IT alignment path to shape business capabilities to match market dynamics; mostly with a plan to manage it with the rigor of program or project management discipline, avoid time delays, cost over-runs, or even if they find earned value through the efforts. This is perhaps […]

After extensive experience in Senior Executive Leadership roles in Business Development, Marketing and Pricing, and IT functions in India and Asia, I was offered an opportunity in the US in the late nineties to work for global firms in areas of Business & Technology intersection & Strategy Consulting. I knew it meant re-inventing myself if […]

A country’s ability to manage its debt justifies its certainty of growth. But that certainty often becomes a question as several variable forces that will ultimately influence the speed of the economic ascend or descend of that economy. As the public deficit becomes too big, then the degree of personal confidence declines, and we just […]

Many have written about “Jugaad” the Indian art of ‘smart work – which means the art of improvising to develop an effective solution using limited resources to make things work. Yes – make things work! The significance of this phrase goes far beyond the simple definition. It is a ‘mindset’ that has become the foundation […]

When NEWSWEEK asked 1,000 U.S. citizens in 2011 to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar. Please don’t […]

I received this following story of lifetime value via a forwarded email almost 15 years ago. I have preserved it for the value it always gave me whenever I have read it. While I can not acknowledge the anonymous writer, I do thank him. Read on … A well-known speaker started off his seminar by […]

There was an article in New York Times not long ago where they made reference to the world’s famous business leaders, successful CEOs, and the types of books contained on their bookshelves. What were they reading – Classics, management, leadership, biographies, or for therapeutic reasons, novels? Steve Jobs was one of the profiles. Most imagined […]