Inspiring Leadership

Innovative Strategies
Process Driven
Execution
Win-win
Relationship

Presented by:
Yashpal Patel
Varun Agarwal
Ashwin Reddy
Rohit Gupta
Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Nov 4, 2008
 Inspiring Leadership

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Guess who is this…
• He born in Oklahoma on March 29,
1918 in family of poor farmer father
and mother.
• He milked family cows, bottled the
surplus and drove it to customers.
• Afterwards, he would deliver
newspaper on paper route.
• He joined JCPenney in Iowa as
management trainee and left it to
join U.S. military for World War II.
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 Sam Walton…
…the
legendary leader
How did he inspire
others?
• Simplicity in veins
• Leadership starts at childhood
• Energetic
• Eyes on competition
• Negotiation skill
• Strong Strategic Focus

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Continued…

• Keep trying new things

• Vision and Communication
• Risk Taker
• Accessible
• Involve everybody
• Walk with changing technology: Largest
pvt. satelite communication system in 1987

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Continued…
• Having Fun

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Innovative Strategies
 What is a Strategy?
Strategy is a direction and scope of
an organization over the long term
which achieves advantage for an
organization through its
configuration of resources in a
challenging environment, to meet the
needs of market and to fulfill
stakeholders expectations.
• Strategy at different levels of
business:
Strategies exists at several levels in any
• Corporate Strategy: Concerned with
overall purpose and scope of business
to meet stakeholders expectations.

• Business Unit Strategy: Concerned

more with how a business competes
successfully in a particular market. Eg
choice of product.

• Operational strategy: Made to deliver

Corporate and BUS. Focuses on issues
of resources, processes, people etc.
How strategies become
Innovative?
By their base- Vision and Mission…

Example: Wal-Mart
• “We want to discount everything we
carry”- Corporate Strategy.
• We will open Discount Stores- Business
Unit Strategy.
• Procure inventory from cheapest
sources- Operational Strategy.
Process Driven Execution

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Process-Driven
• Process-Driven describes the passion
for driving business performance
through process innovation.
• Process-Driven organizations out-
execute their rivals by using process
as a weapon of competitive
advantage.
• Process-Driven individuals truly
understand how their work is getting
done and they are committed to
finding opportunities to do it better.
Process Driven Execution
• Process-Driven companies obtain
significant improvements in the
efficiency and effectiveness of
delivering customer value.
• They align Business and IT in a shared
dialogue around process improvement.
• Larger companies can appear as nimble
as smaller ones.
• Process-Driven organizations perform
better because they know what is
happening in real time.
Implementation
• Understand processes that create customer
value, and which can gain competitive
advantage.
• Identify the metrics and objectives for key
processes.
• Model and automate key business
processes - documentation is not enough.
• Understand and control processes, so you
can optimize through metrics and anticipate
and correct future problems.
• Ensure effective communication between
everyone who is involved with the process.
• Innovate continuously to keep pace with
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What do you understand from this
picture???
Introduction
• Win/Win is the frame of mind and heart
that constantly seeks mutual benefit in
ALL human interactions.
• Win/Win means that agreements and
solutions are mutually beneficial, mutually
satisfying.
• With a Win/Win solution, ALL parties feel
good about the decision and feel
committed to the plan.
• Win/Win sees life as a cooperative, not
competitive arena…there is plenty for
Organization scenario
In a win-win situation organization
tend to employ the cultivation
strategies of
• Positivity
• Assurance of legitimacy
• Being unconditionally constructive .
Effect
In goal of fostering win-win
relationship, organizations reported
that they tend to be willing to
engage
• in dialogue with public ,
• listen to public,
• treat public as "partners", give
positive feedbacks to public and
• be unconditionally constructive to
publics.
Benefits

• On going cost reductions.

• Quality improvements.
• Increased operating flexibility
• More value for customer's customer
• Enhanced leverage with technology
• More powerful competitive strategies
 Thank you
Presented by:
Yashpal Patel
Varun Agarwal
Ashwin Reddy
Rohit Gupta
Abhishek Bhattacharjee

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