Paradox of Excellence. Introduction. Patterns of Excellence. Antipatterns of Excellence. Evolution of Excellence. Variations and Theories of Excellence. Dimensions of Excellence. Variations and Enterprise Excellence. Sources of Variations. Dimension of Variations. Business Excellence through Variations. General Electric. IBM. UPS. Industry Excellence Through Variations. Automobile Industry. Business Excellence and Sap. Business Excellence at SAP. Understanding SAP ERP. Business Excellence through Variations Using SAP.
Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and, e-business architectures. He has been Group CIO of Essar Group, the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as, Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in transforming the business of IT, facilitating business agility and enabling the Process Oriented Enterprise. He is the author of Implementing SAP R/3: The Guide for Business and Technology Managers, Sams (2000), A Guide to Implementing the Oracle Siebel CRM 8.x, McGraw-Hill India (2009) and Guide to Cloud Computing for Business and Technology Managers: From Distributed Computing to Cloudware Applications, Chapman and Hall (2014).
Inverting the Paradox of Excellence is a very comprehensive
analysis of why good companies fail; and to maintain excellence,
the company must be in a constant state of flux! Very convincingly,
Vivek Kale demonstrates that competitiveness is not a state of
being but a process of becoming excellent by monitoring and
continuously adapting to the changing market realities.
—Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing,
Goizueta Business School, Emory University, U.S.A
Vivek Kale offers many invaluable insights in his book, Inverting
the Paradox of Excellence. Rather than proposing intuitively
appealing prescriptions that can easily lead many firms astray, he
advances a much more insightful perspective. That is, leaders must
embrace the inherent tensions between stability and change;
managing for the short-term and creating the future; as well as
leveraging (or exploiting) an existing resource base and exploring
for new opportunities. Failure is not to be avoided—it can lead to
future success! He combines a sound conceptual rationale with many
exciting examples of how to engage and benefit from the ‘paradox’
that he expertly communicates to the reader.
—Gregory Dess, Professor of Management, University of Texas at
Dallas
Vivek Kale has written a ‘must-read’ book that tackles a
challenging subject – what contributes to excellence in an
organization and is sustaining. Vivek is very well qualified as an
author and cognizant of the difficulty of the formidable task to
write this book. He recognizes that previous books on this topic
have showcased organizations that have subsequently failed,
including bankruptcies. His approach to understand the contributors
to business excellence includes a rarely written blend of executive
leadership, business architecture, human nature, and
technology.
—Gary Cokins, President, Analytics-Based Performance Management
LLC; and author of Performance Management – Integrating Strategy
Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
The book Inverting the Paradox of Excellence offers a compelling
look into why even the best companies fail, how the very reasons
for their success can also lead to their eventual downfall. This
well-researched and enlightening book cites example after example
of how companies that maintain excellence have embraced variations
as they adapt to a changing market.
—Greg Niemann, author of Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS
Vivek Kale goes to the heart of the paradoxes of management and
business. He draws together many theories and concepts from
different disciplines to show how businesses are constantly
evolving and changing. Success, as Darwin said, goes to those who
can adapt best to their environment. This excellent book shows why
adaptation is necessary, and how to do it. Further, taking SAP as a
specific example, he shows how enterprise systems enable variations
essential for business excellence.—Morgen Witzel, Fellow, Centre
for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter; and author of A
History of Management Thought
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