Alok K. Sinha’s pathbreaking book on
business strategy now launched -
Achieving Successful Business Outcomes
Alok K. Sinha’s pathbreaking book on business strategy now launched -
Achieving Successful Business Outcomes
Alok K Sinha has held multiple CXO positions in global companies in the immediate past, including Chairman and CEO of a listed software company with entities around the globe. He has worked with large and prestigious global companies. A hands-on leader in the Technology and Software industry with nearly 35 years of track record in driving successful outcomes in the areas of leadership, business management and strategy, he has profitably ramped and managed many end-to-end businesses, from seeding enterprises, turning around and growing organizations, managing global sales, engineering and delivery teams, in the Manufacturing (Automotive and Aerospace), Software Product Engineering, Logistics, BFSI, Government, Foods & Beverages, and Education domains. He is as an active investor and advisor to several start-ups.
Sinha has been credited with creating a highly successful innovation program in his previous companies, which generated multiple thousands of man-days of cutting-edge innovation outputs and patents every year. He instituted a unique ‘reverse’ mentoring programs for his top management by the millennial workforce. Sinha has also been actively engaged in teaching and devising management development programs. He formulated and implemented a very successful mini-CEO program that has helped turnaround sinking, negative EBIT firms into high growth and highly profitable organizations. He has contributed to articles in local and global media with perspectives on life, management, leadership and areas of growth like Organizational Blueprinting & Strategy, Engineering Services, IoT and Education. He is also a Visiting Professor at various Business Schools.
Sinha is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Punjab Engineering college, Chandigarh and a post graduate in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India.
Alok K Sinha has held multiple CXO positions in global companies in the immediate past, including Chairman and CEO of a listed software company with entities around the globe. He has worked with large and prestigious global companies. A hands-on leader in the Technology and Software industry with nearly 35 years of track record in driving successful outcomes in the areas of leadership, business management and strategy, he has profitably ramped and managed many end-to-end businesses, from seeding enterprises, turning around and growing organizations, managing global sales, engineering and delivery teams, in the Manufacturing (Automotive and Aerospace), Software Product Engineering, Logistics, BFSI, Government, Foods & Beverages, and Education domains. He is as an active investor and advisor to several start-ups.
Sinha has been credited with creating a highly successful innovation program in his previous companies, which generated multiple thousands of man-days of cutting-edge innovation outputs and patents every year. He instituted a unique ‘reverse’ mentoring programs for his top management by the millennial workforce. Sinha has also been actively engaged in teaching and devising management development programs. He formulated and implemented a very successful mini-CEO program that has helped turnaround sinking, negative EBIT firms into high growth and highly profitable organizations. He has contributed to articles in local and global media with perspectives on life, management, leadership and areas of growth like Organizational Blueprinting & Strategy, Engineering Services, IoT and Education. He is also a Visiting Professor at various Business Schools.
Sinha is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Punjab Engineering college, Chandigarh and a post graduate in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India.
This book is about achieving successful business outcomes. Just like an aircraft has a rich dashboard of dials but only a critical few need to be monitored continuously, a well modelled business can be managed successfully using a similar strategy. The author uses a simple but a well-researched STA-Triangle model to achieve this purpose. The core of the STA Model is to help navigate effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. Unlike traditional business studies that use a single lens to define business rules or organisational practices, it uses the combination of space, time and action – and hence abbreviated STA, as the driver of outcomes.
This combination of the fundamental dimensions of space, time and action provide a powerful business strategy framework, where space represents firm’s operational territory hence strengths, time represents market state and operating conditions, hence opportunities, and action represents execution thus mimicking lifecycle. Each axis of the STA triangle is represented by a triad of three atomic states – Space (own, known and unknown), Time (recession, stable and growth) and Action (creation, sustenance and deletion). This gives rise to 27 different space-time-action-strategy combinations, representing a wide range of possible occurrences of business environment, ranging from worst to best. It helps in identifying the lowest minimum or ‘normal’ strategy in each combination.
This book is about achieving successful business outcomes. Just like an aircraft has a rich dashboard of dials but only a critical few need to be monitored continuously, a well modelled business can be managed successfully using a similar strategy. The author uses a simple but a well-researched STA-Triangle model to achieve this purpose. The core of the STA Model is to help navigate effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. Unlike traditional business studies that use a single lens to define business rules or organisational practices, it uses the combination of space, time and action – and hence abbreviated STA, as the driver of outcomes.
This combination of the fundamental dimensions of space, time and action provide a powerful business strategy framework, where space represents firm’s operational territory hence strengths, time represents market state and operating conditions, hence opportunities, and action represents execution thus mimicking lifecycle. Each axis of the STA triangle is represented by a triad of three atomic states – Space (own, known and unknown), Time (recession, stable and growth) and Action (creation, sustenance and deletion). This gives rise to 27 different space-time-action-strategy combinations, representing a wide range of possible occurrences of business environment, ranging from worst to best. It helps in identifying the lowest minimum or ‘normal’ strategy in each combination.
The revolutionary Unified Space-Time-Action Strategy-Triangles for evaluating business strategies and driving execution for successful outcomes in diverse environments.
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Integrates generation and selection of strategy from multiple options, quantifiable with the associated degree of risk - Elastic coefficient, into a universal model.
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Examines a new developing relationship between the producers and the consumers beyond the supply or demand side - the community enabled attitudinal economics that is redefining the doctrines of competitive advantage and its impact on pricing.
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Closely binds strategy, execution, decision making and inhibitors, and their inter-relationships.
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Defines transformations accurately - currently extremely diffused, why is it necessary and how to drive it successfully?
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Combines and extends multi-dimensionally, existing management models and frameworks.
The revolutionary Unified Space-Time-Action Strategy-Triangles for evaluating business strategies and driving execution for successful outcomes in diverse environments.
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Integrates generation and selection of strategy from multiple options, quantifiable with the associated degree of risk - Elastic coefficient, into a universal model.
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Examines a new developing relationship between the producers and the consumers beyond the supply or demand side - the community enabled attitudinal economics that is redefining the doctrines of competitive advantage and its impact on pricing.
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Closely binds strategy, execution, decision making and inhibitors, and their inter-relationships.
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Defines transformations accurately - currently extremely diffused, why is it necessary and how to drive it successfully?
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Combines and extends multi-dimensionally, existing management models and frameworks.
The revolutionary Unified Space-Time-Action Strategy-Triangles for evaluating business strategies and driving execution for successful outcomes in diverse environments.
-
Integrates generation and selection of strategy from multiple options, quantifiable with the associated degree of risk - Elastic coefficient, into a universal model.
-
Examines a new developing relationship between the producers and the consumers beyond the supply or demand side - the community enabled attitudinal economics that is redefining the doctrines of competitive advantage and its impact on pricing.
-
Closely binds strategy, execution, decision making and inhibitors, and their inter-relationships.
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Defines transformations accurately - currently extremely diffused, why is it necessary and how to drive it successfully?
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Combines and extends multi-dimensionally, existing management models and frameworks.
Book reading: Achieving Successful Business Outcomes
Book reading: Achieving Successful Business Outcomes
Book reading: Achieving Successful Business Outcomes
A Lightning Conversation with Alok K Sinha & Sinan Si Alhir
A Lightning Conversation with Alok K Sinha & Sinan Si Alhir
A Lightning Conversation with Alok K Sinha & Sinan Si Alhir
The Operating Environments - Volatile vs. Complex: Where does Complexity fit in?
The Operating Environments - Volatile vs. Complex: Where does Complexity fit in?
The Operating Environments - Volatile vs. Complex: Where does Complexity fit in?
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 3 - The Ambiguous
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 3 - The Ambiguous
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 3 - The Ambiguous
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 2 - The Unknown
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 2 - The Unknown
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 2 - The Unknown
What To Do Now?
ADD, AMEND, DELETE
(Lessons from Alok K Sinha)
What To Do Now?
ADD, AMEND, DELETE
(Lessons from Alok K Sinha)
What To Do Now?
ADD, AMEND, DELETE
(Lessons from Alok K Sinha)
Volatile, Uncertain, Unknown and Ambiguous - The New VUUA World and how to deal with it - Part 1 - The Uncertain
Managing the two Sides of a #Volatile and #Crisis Situation
Managing the two Sides of a #Volatile and #Crisis Situation
Managing the two Sides of a #Volatile and #Crisis Situation
Leadership during Extreme Crisis & Chaos
Leadership during Extreme Crisis & Chaos
Leadership during Extreme Crisis & Chaos
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Drawing Drawing on his extensive leadership and business experience, distilling his learning, Alok K Sinha offers wise counsel for leaders, managers and educators for managing business and growth. Through a simple and an impactful organising framework comprising of three core elements–Space, Time and Action (STA), the framework captures core elements and the interactional effects of these elements in any business scenario. Leaders and managers invariably have to exercise choices at the interface or one or more of these elements, to sustain and grow their business. Alok K Sinha lucidly explains each of the framework's components from a vast set of real-life case studies, including his own direct and observed leadership and managerial experiences. The inner workings of success or indeed failures of choices exercised by business leaders and managers are analysed reflectively through the lens of this, bringing to life the power of the organising framework. An engaging read, theoretically informed and reflexively presented. A must-read for existing and aspiring leaders!format_quote
A/Prof. Ashish Malik,
Newcastle Business School,
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Newcastle, Australia
Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Business Research, Journal of Knowledge Management & Human Resource Management Review
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Alok Alok K. Sinha is a name to remember, and Achieving Successful Business Outcomes is a tour-de-force. The book is Sinha’s impressive intellectual take on essential corporate strategies for the 21st century. Distilled from decades of Sinha’s pragmatic business experience, reinventing enterprise after enterprise, this book is not for the faint-hearted. It’s the missing manual for CXOs who want to understand the reasons their growth strategies are faltering and how to reinvigorate them.format_quote
Steven Sonsino,
London Business School, author of Leadership Unplugged and The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders
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Alok has hit the nail on the head! The future demands an entirely new approach to strategic thinking – and MUST be multi-dimensional, multi- faceted and exponential! This does not mean it is devoid of structure ... quite the opposite; in fact, he offers us a comprehensive, relevant and structured way to synthesize the complex forces shaping our future world. It is crucial for leaders to comprehend the interdependencies between a wide range of forces that impact on our future choices and options. More importantly, how these can be used to create optionality and market differentiation. This is a valuable and important contribution to our future relevance toolkit!format_quote
Anton Musgrave,
Futurist and Senior Partner, Future World International
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A timely and compelling book that demystifies what it takes to drive change in a volatile and turbulent business environment. Sinha draws on his rich experience and uses simple and effective tools that can be used by anyone who is looking for a clear and workable business strategy framework to transform your business.format_quote
Sudhanshu Palsule,
author of Rehumanizing Leadership, The Social Leader and Managing in Four Worlds
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Achieving Successful Business Outcomes by Alok K. Sinha offers a well-structured step-by-step guide to help both current and aspiring senior managers develop high performance cultures and transform their organizations to face the challenges and opportunities offered by the continuously evolving global business environment. It is not just a compendium of practical business lessons but also offers a powerful extendable model that can be used to evolve, evaluate and execute risk-calibrated business strategies. Interestingly, it also helps understand why some strategies fail and how to avoid or handle such failures!format_quote
Prof. Piyush Sharma,
School School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, Australia & Associate Editor (Marketing) – Journal of Business Research, Regional Editor – Journal of Knowledge Management
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Drawing on his extensive corporate experience, Alok Sinha has written a must read book for managers. Alok clearly outlines the challenges organizations face in achieving successful business outcomes and what can be done to deal with these challenges. The book develops the key concepts of time, space, and action and how these concepts can be integrated to improve performance. The framework and ideas advanced are very innovative, thought provoking, and relevant in today’s highly competitive business environments. This is an important and valuable contribution to improving managerial and organizational effectiveness.format_quote
Vinod Singhal,
Charles W. Brady Chair, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Drawing on his extensive leadership and business experience, distilling his learning, Alok K Sinha offers wise counsel for leaders, managers and educators for managing business and growth. Through a simple and an impactful organising framework comprising of three core elements–Space, Time and Action (STA), the framework captures core elements and the interactional effects of these elements in any business scenario. Leaders and managers invariably have to exercise choices at the interface or one or more of these elements, to sustain and grow their business. Alok K Sinha lucidly explains each of the framework's components from a vast set of real-life case studies, including his own direct and observed leadership and managerial experiences. The inner workings of success or indeed failures of choices exercised by business leaders and managers are analysed reflectively through the lens of this, bringing to life the power of the organising framework. An engaging read, theoretically informed and reflexively presented. A must-read for existing and aspiring leaders!format_quote
A/Prof. Ashish Malik,
Newcastle Business School,
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Newcastle, Australia
Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Business Research, Journal of Knowledge Management & Human Resource Management Review
edit
Alok Alok K. Sinha is a name to remember, and Achieving Successful Business Outcomes is a tour-de-force. The book is Sinha’s impressive intellectual take on essential corporate strategies for the 21st century. Distilled from decades of Sinha’s pragmatic business experience, reinventing enterprise after enterprise, this book is not for the faint-hearted. It’s the missing manual for CXOs who want to understand the reasons their growth strategies are faltering and how to reinvigorate them.format_quote
Steven Sonsino,
London Business School, author of Leadership Unplugged and The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders
edit
Alok has hit the nail on the head! The future demands an entirely new approach to strategic thinking – and MUST be multi-dimensional, multi- faceted and exponential! This does not mean it is devoid of structure ... quite the opposite; in fact, he offers us a comprehensive, relevant and structured way to synthesize the complex forces shaping our future world. It is crucial for leaders to comprehend the interdependencies between a wide range of forces that impact on our future choices and options. More importantly, how these can be used to create optionality and market differentiation. This is a valuable and important contribution to our future relevance toolkit!format_quote
Anton Musgrave,
Futurist and Senior Partner, Future World International
edit
A timely and compelling book that demystifies what it takes to drive change in a volatile and turbulent business environment. Sinha draws on his rich experience and uses simple and effective tools that can be used by anyone who is looking for a clear and workable business strategy framework to transform your business.format_quote
Sudhanshu Palsule,
author of Rehumanizing Leadership, The Social Leader and Managing in Four Worlds
edit
Achieving Successful Business Outcomes by Alok K. Sinha offers a well-structured step-by-step guide to help both current and aspiring senior managers develop high performance cultures and transform their organizations to face the challenges and opportunities offered by the continuously evolving global business environment. It is not just a compendium of practical business lessons but also offers a powerful extendable model that can be used to evolve, evaluate and execute risk-calibrated business strategies. Interestingly, it also helps understand why some strategies fail and how to avoid or handle such failures!format_quote
Prof. Piyush Sharma,
School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, Australia & Associate Editor (Marketing) – Journal of Business Research, Regional Editor – Journal of Knowledge Management
edit
Drawing on his extensive corporate experience, Alok Sinha has written a must read book for managers. Alok clearly outlines the challenges organizations face in achieving successful business outcomes and what can be done to deal with these challenges. The book develops the key concepts of time, space, and action and how these concepts can be integrated to improve performance. The framework and ideas advanced are very innovative, thought provoking, and relevant in today’s highly competitive business environments. This is an important and valuable contribution to improving managerial and organizational effectiveness.format_quote
Vinod Singhal,
Charles W. Brady Chair, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
edit
Drawing on his extensive leadership and business experience, distilling his learning, Alok K Sinha offers wise counsel for leaders, managers and educators for managing business and growth. Through a simple and an impactful organising framework comprising of three core elements–Space, Time and Action (STA), the framework captures core elements and the interactional effects of these elements in any business scenario. Leaders and managers invariably have to exercise choices at the interface or one or more of these elements, to sustain and grow their business. Alok K Sinha lucidly explains each of the framework's components from a vast set of real-life case studies, including his own direct and observed leadership and managerial experiences. The inner workings of success or indeed failures of choices exercised by business leaders and managers are analysed reflectively through the lens of this, bringing to life the power of the organising framework. An engaging read, theoretically informed and reflexively presented. A must-read for existing and aspiring leaders!format_quote
A/Prof. Ashish Malik,
Newcastle Business School,
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Newcastle, Australia
Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Business Research, Journal of Knowledge Management & Human Resource Management Review
edit
Alok K. Sinha is a name to remember, and Achieving Successful Business Outcomes is a tour-de-force. The book is Sinha’s impressive intellectual take on essential corporate strategies for the 21st century. Distilled from decades of Sinha’s pragmatic business experience, reinventing enterprise after enterprise, this book is not for the faint-hearted. It’s the missing manual for CXOs who want to understand the reasons their growth strategies are faltering and how to reinvigorate them.format_quote
Steven Sonsino,
London Business School, author of Leadership Unplugged and The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders
edit
Alok has hit the nail on the head! The future demands an entirely new approach to strategic thinking – and MUST be multi-dimensional, multi- faceted and exponential! This does not mean it is devoid of structure ... quite the opposite; in fact, he offers us a comprehensive, relevant and structured way to synthesize the complex forces shaping our future world. It is crucial for leaders to comprehend the interdependencies between a wide range of forces that impact on our future choices and options. More importantly, how these can be used to create optionality and market differentiation. This is a valuable and important contribution to our future relevance toolkit!format_quote
Anton Musgrave,
Futurist and Senior Partner, Future World International
edit
A timely and compelling book that demystifies what it takes to drive change in a volatile and turbulent business environment. Sinha draws on his rich experience and uses simple and effective tools that can be used by anyone who is looking for a clear and workable business strategy framework to transform your business.format_quote
Sudhanshu Palsule,
author of Rehumanizing Leadership, The Social Leader and Managing in Four Worlds
edit
Achieving Successful Business Outcomes by Alok K. Sinha offers a well-structured step-by-step guide to help both current and aspiring senior managers develop high performance cultures and transform their organizations to face the challenges and opportunities offered by the continuously evolving global business environment. It is not just a compendium of practical business lessons but also offers a powerful extendable model that can be used to evolve, evaluate and execute risk-calibrated business strategies. Interestingly, it also helps understand why some strategies fail and how to avoid or handle such failures!format_quote
Prof. Piyush Sharma,
School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, Australia & Associate Editor (Marketing) – Journal of Business Research, Regional Editor – Journal of Knowledge Management
edit
Drawing on his extensive corporate experience, Alok Sinha has written a must read book for managers. Alok clearly outlines the challenges organizations face in achieving successful business outcomes and what can be done to deal with these challenges. The book develops the key concepts of time, space, and action and how these concepts can be integrated to improve performance. The framework and ideas advanced are very innovative, thought provoking, and relevant in today’s highly competitive business environments. This is an important and valuable contribution to improving managerial and organizational effectiveness.format_quote
Vinod Singhal,
Charles W. Brady Chair, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
