Opinions & Perspectives
Thought leadership and insights on innovation, technology transformation, and the future of work
2025
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2024
The Anatomy of Corporate Culture: How to Build and Sustain What Truly Matters
Corporate culture is often heralded as the backbone of organizational success, yet it remains an elusive concept for many leaders. It's more than just a buzzword or an abstract ideal—it's the driving force behind how people work, interact, and grow within an organization.
Change Management - The Most Prominent Member of the Corporate Vocabulary Landfill!!
For far too long, "change management" has been the go-to buzzword in corporate corridors. It's a shimmering smokescreen, a verbal tap dance that leaders deploy to explain away stagnant performance and calm frustrated employees. But let's be honest: in its current state, "change management" is less of a tool and more of a permanent resident in the corporate vocabulary landfill.
2023
Generative AI: The frontiers of Next Generation User Experience!!
Throughout my extensive career in digital and human interactions, centered around empathy-driven approaches, I have developed a thought-provoking hypothesis. This hypothesis categorizes individuals into three distinct brain preferences when it comes to consuming information and data. The three categories are Analytical Thinkers, Abstract Thinkers, and Visual Learners. These preferences, I believe, have been shaped by the user experience limitations we have encountered in the digital landscape. However, with the advent of conversational possibilities enabled by Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), a massive shift in enterprise experiences is on the horizon.
Industry 5.0: The realization of adaptive problem solving in manufacturing
Industry 4.0 sought to revolutionize the manufacturing sector by integrating advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data. However, the implementation and realization of these innovations have been slow, particularly in existing legacy capital assets that dominate global manufacturing shop floors.
Navigating Paradox: The Foundation of Leadership
All Leaders are responsible for leading their team towards success. However, the path to success is not always clear-cut. In fact, it is often filled with paradoxes that can be difficult to navigate. But, as a leader, it is your job to not only navigate these paradoxes but to also use them to your advantage.
Paradoxical Reality: Majority of Startups fail to scale and Majority of Big Corporations fail to Innovate at accelerated pace like a startup!!
It is a paradoxical challenge for every large companies to drive innovation in their organization. The majority of startups fail to scale, while the majority of big corporations fail to innovate at an accelerated pace like a startup.
Lead with first principles instead of narratives!
First Principle Based Leadership is a method of decision-making that involves breaking down complex problems into fundamental truths or principles. By doing this, leaders can make decisions based on the most basic and essential elements of a situation.
2022
Consumer Digital has been Transformational by all means, but Enterprise Digital has been a Story of Hype at many corporations!!
The rapid pace of digital experience innovations keeping in pace with exponential commoditization of computing, storage and network(cloud & edge) has resulted in a world of users with real time access to information and insights like never before! These technology fascinated users- the knowledge workers, executives and C-suite members- started asking the question, "why can't we have the same consumer experience at work" ??
2021
2021: Stakeholder Capitalism Converging with Decentralization- Powered by Cryptography
The new year started with the continued crisis state due to COVID-19 from 2020 followed by a "not conceded election" of the highest office in the oldest democracy in the world! The strongest democracy and super power in the world witnessed riots in the nation's capital which tarnished the heritage of peaceful power transfer. The year continued with less than perfect political and governance systems around the world including United States. Many unfortunate and disappointing incidents of violence, hatred and intolerance took place around the world. For many, it felt like the world is becoming more and more divided based on ideologies!
2019
Does AI can potentially solve world hunger ???
Imagine the world where we can predict everything in advance! Indeed, the first thought is, it would be a fascinating world!. But if you think again for a moment, it is a boring world with no excitement of unknowns!
Technology & Transformation without social inclusion drives the world to be a better place for the lucky minority!
As we pass the first half of 2019, I was just reflecting on an article I wrote at the end of 2018. Unfortunately there is only deterioration in governance and leadership in Washington. This has fostered a world with strain on long standing alliances and has allowed to create a "new normal" of unethical and criminal behaviors by many countries and leaders, normalized by the so called "leader of the free world"!
2018
2018: An extraordinary year filled with fear of disruption by technology, fear of breakage of world alliances and chaos in Washington!!
The year 2018 has already earned its place in history books yet to be written with certainty. We have witnessed noticeable cracks in the rock solid multinational alliances, built on common convictions and survived for decades irrespective of the political ideologies. An exponential level of dysfunction in Washington which has been at its peak with constant revolving door for cabinet members and other officials. Social media is effectively used to shame, bully, make national security decisions and fire political appointees like never before!. The sanctity of the most admired elected office in the world has been erased and is filled with lies, media circus and propaganda to satisfy the relentless self admiration like a little child!!
The Digital Hype of 2018- Blockchain, AI, ML,Quantum Computing and Crazy Prediction of Singularity!!
We live in a world of fascination and admiration of digital innovations simply because of the reasonable progress and innovations around digital has been very much scalable to humanity in a very visible way through the internet, unlike other branches of science.
2017
What IBM and GE have in common?
Many of us perhaps remember the book "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. He is remembered as a leader who shook the "Elephant" that was losing ~8 billion annually and transformed IBM into a services company.
Cloud Computing: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly . . . and the Potentially Great..
In the world of technology today, cloud computing is front and center of every discussion. The marketplace is dominated by three major digital leaders: Amazon, Microsoft and Google, with a number of other conventional technology companies still racing to compete and not giving up easily.
2016
Globalization wasn't without flaws but Digitalization can be worse if the government and society are not prepared..
Most of us are truly thankful for being alive in this century to experience the fast pace change in information technology and amazing advancements in science which has applications in every aspects of human life. These advancements have a profound positive impact in all of our life one way or other.
Digitalization Frenzy in Board Rooms!
We have been living in a market which is under extreme pressure to begin or accelerate the digitization and digitalization journey within the enterprise. Many organizations are creating new C level titles for digitalization and creating senior leadership focus committees to incubate and scout for digital technology startups. Recently, this trend has been increasing than ever.