IIMA: Mysteries in Management & Elephants and Cheetahs: The Beauty of Operations (Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.Do systems have souls?This book based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad examines the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models to look for answers. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions does the organization that I am managing have a soul and if so what are the strategic choices that enable its synthesis (external orientation) and do I have a soul and if so who am I (internal orientation)? In the process it uncovers a beauty inherent in patterns of strategic choices that enables an organizational soul to emerge and an appreciation of the diversity of such souls. About the Author Saral Mukherjee is an associate professor in the production and quantitative methods area at IIM Ahmedabad. He specializes in Operations management and is involved in research teaching and consulting in the area of supply chain redesign operations strategy marketing-operations interface and managing platform businesses. He is the recipient of the 'Marti Mannariah Gurunath Outstanding Teacher Award' at IIMA in 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 and 2020 and the 'SRK Distinguished PGPX Faculty Award' at IIMA in 2017 and 2020. A production engineer from Jadavpur University he has worked on production shop floors before joining IIM Calcutta as a doctoral student. His academic career spans close to two decades at IIM Ahmedabad during which he has taught core courses on Operations Marketing and Ethics for MBA students as well as working executives.Can managerial productivity be measured?In management we continue to take many things for granted and not question the ‘unthought unexplained knowns’. Why are women under-represented in parliament and in several corporate boards? Is management an art a science or a craft? Most practitioners merely skim over these conundrums without ever delving into it.Professor Ajeet N. Mathur has designed an exciting new course titled ‘Mysteries in Management’ for the flagship MBA (PGP) programme at IIM Ahmedabad in which selected mysteries that continue to persist in the field of management are discussed.This book includes ten carefully selected mysteries and the author armed with credible research and revealing examples tries to demystify them. Accessible and eminently readable the logic behind these will surprise and delight readers in equal measure.