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Welcome to my personal blog.  Opinions expressed here are mine and mine alone, unless otherwise stated.

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Full disclosure: I used to work in corporate strategy at Dell Inc, advising on software, cloud computing and mergers & acquisitions. I now work at Rackspace.

I have an on-going “garage project” kanban2go (a task management/productivity application) built by a talented team.  I also serve as an adviser to an innovative technology start-up in the Bay Area that is solving a complex problem in cloud computing – Cliqr Technologies.  Besides this blog, OnProductManagement.net is a place I post regularly with a few others on product leadership.  My presentations and talks are here:  http://slideshare.net/prabhakar

 

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Why firms fail?

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The answer to this question is, surprisingly, simple.  It isn’t lack of any of these:  innovation, new gadgets, time to market or bad customer experience.  It is simply this: when majority of a firm’s employees fail to see the big picture, firms fail.

When was the last time you heard any of this in your office: “But we have done it this way for a long time”, “this is the way it works here”, “we reject anything that doesn’t work our way”, “our culture will reject this”, “we don’t like disruption”, “we are believers in incremental change, not disruptive change”, “we know how to do it, we have been successful before”.

When you are caught in the weeds, in your own silos, it’s easy to miss the big picture.  Seeing the big picture helps answer why do something different.  It gives us the reason for change.  A few employees hacking away on the side on incremental changes is good but that doesn’t replace the big picture thinking that everyone in the firm needs.  Change has to come from within, from everywhere.

 
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