Sriram Narayan Quotes & Sayings

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. — Sriram Narayan

Good business outcomes are testable, valuable, independently achievable, and negotiable (TVIN). As — Sriram Narayan

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. — Sriram Narayan

Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings). — Sriram Narayan

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 — Sriram Narayan

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. — Sriram Narayan

tools that blur boundaries between specialists are better than those that reinforce them. — Sriram Narayan