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. Visit his website at: www.alokksinha.com

• Preface. Acknowledgements. About the Author. Section I - In Search of Successful Outcomes. Chapter 1: The Never-Ending Cycle of Creation, Sustenance, Destruction and Transformation. Chapter 2: Time, Space and Action – Experience, Boundary and Force. Chapter 3: Integrating Time, Space and Action – Charting Pathways to Successful Outcomes. Section II - Strategy Triangles: Driving Successful Outcomes. Chapter 4: Driving Business in Multiple Frames of Decision-Making. Chapter 5: Strategy-Triangle Encirclements – Traps, Inhibitors and Competition Changers. Section III - Strategy-Triangles: Driving Business Performance and Transformations in a Continuously Evolving Business Environment. Chapter 6: Strategy-Triangles and the Evolutionary Cycles on the Earth. Chapter 7: Driving Business Performance – The Progression of Continual Improvement, Re-Engineering and Innovation. Chapter 8: Driving Business Transformation - The Cycle of Simplification and Re-creation. Section IV - Tying it all Together - Developing Elastic Strategy Options with STA Triangles. Chapter 9: Strategy-Triangles in its Entirety - Formulating Elastic Business Strategies. Index.

"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."Steven Sonsino, author of ‘Leadership Unplugged’ and ‘The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders’"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 synthesise 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!"Anton Musgrave, Futurist and Senior Partner, Future World International"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 any of you who is looking for a clear and workable business strategy framework to transform your business."Sudhanshu Palsule, author of ‘The Social Leader’ and ‘Managing in Four Worlds’"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."Vinod SinghalCharles W. Brady ChairScheller College of BusinessGeorgia Institute of Technology