Mithun A. Sridharan

I'm Mithun A. Sridharan, Founder of this website - Think Insights - on Strategy, Management Consulting, Leadership, Digital Transformation, and Data Literacy. Follow me on social media or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates.
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November 2024 Member since

Articles by Mithun A. Sridharan

Why the Whiteboard Still Wins

A whiteboard offers a neutral, flexible tool for resetting difficult meetings and reaching agreement.

Bain Global PE Report

Buyout firms outperformed public equities but the spread is shrinking.

How New Teams Become Productive

A classic team-development framework explains why new teams need time before reaching real productivity.

VRIO

VRIO framework is a strategic tool that helps organizations identify the resources and capabilities that give them a sustainable competitive advantage

Etsy's Handmade Marketplace Model

How Etsy turned crafts into commerce

Build Trust, It's Rare

Five properties of trust explain why it outperforms every management tool.

eCommerce Revenue Models

Revenue model is a critical component of business strategy that helps create sustainable business models along the eCommerce value chain

Competitive Analysis and Positioning

Competitive analysis and positioning are structured methodologies that help articulate an educated strategy using key factors in a competitive ecosystem

Leading Through Chat

Making written micro-messages in Slack/Teams feel like real leadership

How a Famous Strategy Firm Collapsed

A once-elite strategy consulting firm's bankruptcy shows how prestige alone cannot prevent collapse.

Data Storytelling

Data storytelling requires a structured approach for organizing and communicating the insights from data using three core components - data analysis, visualization, and narrative

Mindmap

Mind Mapping is a visualization technique to graphically establish connections between several ideas or pieces of information in line with the brain's natural way of doing things

Why the Whiteboard Still Wins

A whiteboard offers a neutral, flexible tool for resetting difficult meetings and reaching agreement.

Bain Global PE Report

Buyout firms outperformed public equities but the spread is shrinking.

How New Teams Become Productive

A classic team-development framework explains why new teams need time before reaching real productivity.

VRIO

VRIO framework is a strategic tool that helps organizations identify the resources and capabilities that give them a sustainable competitive advantage

Etsy's Handmade Marketplace Model

How Etsy turned crafts into commerce

Build Trust, It's Rare

Five properties of trust explain why it outperforms every management tool.

eCommerce Revenue Models

Revenue model is a critical component of business strategy that helps create sustainable business models along the eCommerce value chain

Competitive Analysis and Positioning

Competitive analysis and positioning are structured methodologies that help articulate an educated strategy using key factors in a competitive ecosystem

Leading Through Chat

Making written micro-messages in Slack/Teams feel like real leadership

How a Famous Strategy Firm Collapsed

A once-elite strategy consulting firm's bankruptcy shows how prestige alone cannot prevent collapse.

Data Storytelling

Data storytelling requires a structured approach for organizing and communicating the insights from data using three core components - data analysis, visualization, and narrative

Mindmap

Mind Mapping is a visualization technique to graphically establish connections between several ideas or pieces of information in line with the brain's natural way of doing things