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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Articles by Mithun A. Sridharan

Winter Reading Economist Insights

Covid-19, Chinese retail, 5G auctions, infrastructure spending and cheap money shaped early 2021.

Thinking On Your Feet

Impromptu speaking reveals judgment. Leaders can improve off-the-cuff answers by practicing simple structures, disciplined listening and faster decisions under varied prompts

Strategy: Poker Not Chess

Imperfect information, luck and bluffing make poker the better analogy for strategy.

Data Visualization From The Economist

Simple, informative charts from The Economist model effective data communication.

Digitization Drives Schumpeterian Change

Digitization boosts profits and wages but rewards only the prepared industries.

Twelve Forces Reshaping Banking

Organizing forty pages of banking trends into one cause-and-effect skeleton.

Your Strategy for McDonald's

Teamwork, scoping and storytelling produce presentations that persuade executives.

ERP - a Love-Hate Relationship

Enterprise resource planning runs big business, costs fortunes and fails spectacularly.

Corporate Training Usefulness Questioned

Companies spend billions on training yet most learning never reaches the job. Disciplined design changes that.

Strategy Class: 175 Questions

A comprehensive question set spanning value creation, industry structure and innovation.

Geek Out, Become the Mini-Expert

Digging deeper than required turns reliable consultants into indispensable mini-experts.

The DuPont Method

One formula splits ROE into profitability, asset efficiency and leverage.

Winter Reading Economist Insights

Covid-19, Chinese retail, 5G auctions, infrastructure spending and cheap money shaped early 2021.

Thinking On Your Feet

Impromptu speaking reveals judgment. Leaders can improve off-the-cuff answers by practicing simple structures, disciplined listening and faster decisions under varied prompts

Strategy: Poker Not Chess

Imperfect information, luck and bluffing make poker the better analogy for strategy.

Data Visualization From The Economist

Simple, informative charts from The Economist model effective data communication.

Digitization Drives Schumpeterian Change

Digitization boosts profits and wages but rewards only the prepared industries.

Twelve Forces Reshaping Banking

Organizing forty pages of banking trends into one cause-and-effect skeleton.

Your Strategy for McDonald's

Teamwork, scoping and storytelling produce presentations that persuade executives.

ERP - a Love-Hate Relationship

Enterprise resource planning runs big business, costs fortunes and fails spectacularly.

Corporate Training Usefulness Questioned

Companies spend billions on training yet most learning never reaches the job. Disciplined design changes that.

Strategy Class: 175 Questions

A comprehensive question set spanning value creation, industry structure and innovation.

Geek Out, Become the Mini-Expert

Digging deeper than required turns reliable consultants into indispensable mini-experts.

The DuPont Method

One formula splits ROE into profitability, asset efficiency and leverage.