Sriram Narayan Quotes

#1. Good business outcomes are testable, valuable, independently achievable, and negotiable (TVIN). As

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#2. Instead of a central finance function tracking if funds are utilized as per plan, we have outcome owners accountable for realizing value out of pre-approved funds tied to outcomes rather than plans.

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#3. Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings).

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#4. tools that blur boundaries between specialists are better than those that reinforce them.

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#5. Handoffs are mostly a result of specialization. Organization design cannot reduce these handoffs, but it can make them faster and cheaper by making them occur inside a single team.

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#6. An organizational norm that says, "We value practice over theory but we value theory-informed practice over ad-hoc practice" helps to restore some respect for theory. We

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#7. Thus, a mindset of responsiveness considers time efficiency from the customer's or requestor's point of view rather than cost-efficiency from the service provider's point of view.

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