Percolating Obstacles: Overcoming Business Value Challenges in the Coffee Trade

In today’s episode, we will continue our conversation with Lisa Yala and Mitalee Bhardwaj, women entrepreneurs transcending their way into the coffee business. We discuss the various obstacles and challenges these entrepreneurs faced while establishing their coffee syrup business. We highlight the specific hurdles they encountered and how they overcame them using their engineering backgrounds....

From Engineering to Espresso: Unveiling the Value Motivation

In this episode, which is the first of two parts, we delve into the personal stories of the two young women entrepreneurs who transitioned from engineering careers to the coffee business. Transcendence coffee was founded by two women engineers who met working as baristas in college. Derived from their caffeine addiction and love for specialty...

Good for the Planet. Good for the Business

In today’s episode, which is second on the topic of ESG, we will discuss how it is good for the planet and good for the business. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It is a framework that helps stakeholders understand how an organization is managing risks and opportunities related to environmental, social, and governance...

Adopting Methodologies & Frameworks to Accelerate Time to Value of Digital Transformation

Guest Andrew Wolff discusses how adopting an operating methodology accelerates time to value of a digital transformation program. Frameworks and Methodologies are defined and a distinction is made between them. Time to value is reduced between 40-60% when compared to non-methodology driven programs which results in an additional increase in IRR of at least 20%....

Digital Transformation Acceleration through Transformation Leadership Teams

In today’s episode, former Microsoft CTO of customer transformation discusses how to accelerate digital transformation (or DT) using various enablement programs. He talks about various factors influencing the success of DT programs especially using Transformation Leadership Teams (TLT). He also talks about the benefits of using TLT by organizations aspiring to successfully execute a DT...

Business Value Implications of ESG

Arie Polichuk, digital advisor at Microsoft, talks to us about the business value of ESG. He gives a background on this topic and why it is important today. He provides details on typical benefits and costs to be expected along with some illustrative returns in key industries. He also discusses best practices for companies just...

Ensuring Adoption of Business Value Analysis – A conversation with Bill Hubbell

In a conversation with economist Bill Hubbell, he gives us an understanding of business value analysis and why it needs to be iterative. We then delve into why, despite being straightforward, leaders are hesitant to use the analysis to assist them in making their decisions.

Premiere Episode – What is Valufication of Things

In this premiere episode, host Sree Sundaram talks about value, especially business value. He begins by giving a fundamental definition of value and what the study of value is called. Then, he defines “Valufication” in the context of this podcast. Because this is a first episode, he also lays the groundwork by talking about the...

Communicating Business Value Through Story Telling

It is not just enough to develop a credible value model but telling a compelling is equally important. As mentioned many times earlier, value is very subjective and is perceived by each of the personas differently. Many times, it is not just the number but the benchmarks and the metrics in the value model that...

A Value Model for ESG – Part III

This is the last of three parts of this article which was originally published with Arie Polichuk on LinkedIn. The full pdf of the article can be found here: ESG_Business_Value_Model Part I: Introduction Part II: Value Model Development   Illustrative Value Model For the purposes of describing the value model, we developed a hypothetical case...