Bøker av Vivek Kale

It is well known that high-tech startups need to innovate to survive, yet the failure rate for innovation is shockingly high. Nearly three out of four new products or services, i.e., their startups, miss their revenue and profit goals-or fail entirely.It's a misconception that high-tech startups fail only because of the failing products or finances. The failures could also be because of erroneous choice of technology platforms, development teams or methodology, or even the project execution. Accordingly, this book takes a holistic view of a startups' aesthetics that enables it to become attractive for all stakeholders especially investors in all aspects of its operations at all stages of its lifecycle.This book: Looks at aspects of venture capital financing and what investors look for in a contemporary startup.Shows how only an overarching aspiration for a startup to become a Unicorn is sufficient to explain the typical characteristics of legendry Silicon Valley Unicorns like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.Covers major application areas of current/future interest, namely, intelligent systems, intelligent assistants, wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain systems.Introduces the contemporary skills-set in demand for Startups.To succinctly cover all aspects of a contemporary startup, Unleashing the Startup Unicorn is organized to reflect the natural grouping of competencies that are essential for entrepreneurial ventures-from conception to successful exit. To understand and analyze these competencies, the book uses an extended 9S model inspired by the pioneering McKinsey 7S model.

This book guides IT and business executives through the technologies that create an intelligent, agile, and competitive enterprise. It examines social, contextual, search, and physical intelligence, and the technologies that emulate them. Each technology is covered in-depth and shown how at work in an intelligent enterprise.

In today''s competitive business environment, most companies realize that the better they can manage their customer relationships, the more successful they will become. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software systems are key tools for companies to manage the customer-facing processes of their businesses. However, many companies have resisted implementing this most critical customer-oriented application due in large part to the lack of a single-point resource on implementing a CRM system. This book attempts to fill that gap.Implementing SAP® CRM will help technologists and managers come to grips with the vision, concept, and technology of CRM. It begins by laying out the groundwork for understanding CRM. It explains the concept and context of CRM and the tangible business benefits of CRM adoption. Demonstrating a professional approach to the evaluation and selection of SAP, it details the critical success factors (CSFs), patterns, and anti-patterns of a successful SAP CRM implementation.CRM implementations can add significant benefit to the company’s bottom line only if the company first transforms itself into a customer-centric and customer-responsive enterprise. This book explains what it means to be a customer-centric and responsive enterprise, and provides a framework for business operations based on customer relationships, rather than the traditional four Ps (product, positioning, price, promotion). It further spells out business process reengineering (BPR) strategies to configure internal business processes and operations with SAP CRM to improve customer-facing strategies, services, and relationships.

This book guides IT and business executives through the technologies that create an intelligent, agile, and competitive enterprise. It examines social, contextual, search, and physical intelligence, and the technologies that emulate them. Each technology is covered in-depth and shown how at work in an intelligent enterprise.

Enhancing Enterprise Intelligence: Leveraging ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, BPM, and BI takes a fresh look at the benefits of enterprise systems (ES), focusing on the fact that ES collectively contribute to enhancing the intelligence quotient of an enterprise. The book provides an overview of the characteristics and essential strengths of various categories of ES, namely, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply-Chain Management (SCM), Product LifeCycle Management (PLM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Business Intelligence (BI).

Drawing lessons from one of the best models of success, the evolutionary model, this book explains why an organization must actively monitor the market environment and competitors to ascertain excellence and reconfigure and reframe continuously. It introduces the patterns and anti-patterns of excellence and includes detailed case studies based on different variations, including structure variations, shared values variations, and staff variations. The book includes case history segments from Toyota, Acer, eBay, Cisco, Blackberry, Samsung, Volvo, Charles Schwab, McDonald's, Starbucks, Google, Disney, and NUMMI; as well as detailed case histories of GE, IBM, and UPS.