Author Archives: chintan

“Strategy cannot be developed in vacuum. Understanding the competition landscape is critical.” - Avinash Bhandari Not only a serious understanding about your own competencies but also a very detailed understanding of competitor’s key strengths is necessary to build a robust strategy. What has each competitor done in the recent past

“Opportunity sizing is a much under-utilized and under-rated business projection and goal setting tool, especially in small and mid-sized businesses in India” - Avinash Bhandari When setting goals, companies typically look at the rates at which they have grown in the past and extrapolate/ improvise [in some manner] to project

“Strategy is not about copying. It is not even about being better. It is about being different.” - Avinash Bhandari More and more companies are looking at what the nearest competitor is doing and trying to replicate that or better that. That is not strategy. Strategy is about occupying a

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cells.” - Edward Abbey “Organizations, therefore, must seek and learn to grow profitably” Gain market share and profitability will follow – was the thumb-rule for most of the industries in the old economy. However, in the last 20 years,

“If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” - Henry Kissinger The above quote highlights the importance of goal setting. However, I believe that goal setting itself is not enough. It is important that the top management sets the goals for the organization, but