Farmers & Existing Agri-chain Players: Strategic Options under Changing Agriculture Landscape

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Farmers & Existing Agri-chain Players: Strategic Options under Changing Agriculture Landscape Farmers & Existing Agri-chain Players: Strategic Options under Changing Agriculture Landscape  Prologue In a free market economy theoretically, price is determined by demand-supply situation, but in reality, the story is slightly different. Let us take an example, demand of…

Mental Models: How do they help navigate Indeterminate Situations?

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Mental Models: How do they help navigate Indeterminate Situations? Mental Models: How do they help navigate Indeterminate Situations? Learning and reasoning are among the two most important contributors to the evolution of human society. We learn and reason often consciously, but many a times unconsciously and sub-consciously.  Our choices and…

Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Summary The paper seeks to explore strategic choices available to firms in the post Covid-19 lockdown period. Using Schön’s approach, this paper characterises the post lockdown as an indeterminate situation,…

Managing Business Portfolio at the time of Crisis

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Managing Business Portfolio at the time of Crisis Managing Business Portfolio at the time of Crisis Both spread of nCOVID-19 virus and governments’ response to contain its spread are having a big toll on economic activities. With the passage of time it is becoming amply clear that fight against the…

Strategy – The Journey from Thinking to Execution

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Strategy – The Journey from Thinking to Execution Strategy – The Journey from Thinking to Execution Derived from the Greek word stratēgia[i] which means “the function of a general”, strategy is often used to describe a high-level path to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty and was…

Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper  Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper The seemingly simple questions of what and how to compensate employees form the core of how employees and indeed the firms and economic systems perform. They are also at the intersection of human nature (what motivates…

The Growth Paradox: Resolution through Change in ‘Frames for Choices’

Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies The Growth Paradox: Resolution through Change in ‘Frames for Choices’ The Growth Paradox: Resolution through Change in ‘Frames for Choices’ Our inaugural Conclave last year had focused on making choices in a growth-constrained, information-age economy. Senior business and academic leaders had discussed about the structural and cyclical factors…

Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma Entrepreneurship and a well-functioning start-up eco-system is an essential part of an innovative and competitive economy, and the society.  They…

Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration into the Assumptions and Biases in Understanding Leadership

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration into the Assumptions and Biases in Understanding Leadership Leadership is considered an essential feature of any collective human endeavour whether organized informally, or in a more formal way, as in organizations.  It…