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Businesses live and die based on the attention to detail the management pays. The more purposefully and deeply you can dig into an activity or a train of thought, the better it is for all stakeholders. For instance, consider McDonald’s. In the developing world, they measure the size of the potatoes they buy for their […]

Comparisons and contrasts are a way of life. The business world knows this well, as no two companies make the same version of any product or service. One company charges customers extra for ketchup with its burger; another offers two types of condiments for free. One business specializes in offering comfort wear, and another offers […]

The power of business review is immense. Without it, people can continue to work in silos within their departments. Depending on the domain of the business, reviews can be daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Operationally, these are timeframes. A yearly review is imperative for strategic purposes and in times of crisis.   Examples include quarterly […]

The US News & World Report, a major news magazine in the US, compared 87 countries based on a survey of 17,000 global citizens just six months ago, in September 2023. Respondents gave views on dozens of variables, with sub-rankings of about a dozen. These included perceptions of power, influence, social purpose, and even something […]

“That’s a percentage shot,” we hear this in sports commentary on baseball, American football, lawn tennis, and other popular sports as well. Translated into English, it means the shot was played after considering the chances of success. Businesses need this skill of acing their ‘percentage shots’ every time. For them, this means getting the growth […]

In the business world, two things are critical for survival. Have you delivered the value you promised, and is that comfort or demand fulfillment within a reasonable time range for the user? If the answer to both these questions hidden into one is YES, voila, we have a business to celebrate. Otherwise, it is curtains! […]

Three years or 1,000 Days! A long time in business or life. Yet, without a clear timeline with milestones, goals and objectives, the days can whittle way with nothing significant being achieved. As they say, “One page a day is a book in a year, you will never write a book in a day.”   […]

Forbes has done a very-recent cover story headline, Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Replace Consultants? The answer to the provocative title will be revealed just a few paragraphs from now. Yet, business consulting, a $900 billion industry, as we speak, remains strong. Everything appears to come down to consultants, from expansion plans to tapping the market […]

What happens next?   This eternal question always has humanity excited and curious. From the next second to the next decade, we want to know the future, not then, but now! So, can you forecast the future now? Consider the case of Paul, The Octopus, who predicted football matches ahead of the 2010 World Cup. The […]

Finnish company Nokia losing ground in the mobile phone manufacturing space in the first decade of this century is a prime example of ignoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), leading to a complete business collapse. Decades before Nokia, we had camera filmmaker Kodak living in a self-imposed silo of not monitoring KPIs at all, and it […]