Business Transformation Planning for Leaders: A Tactical Roadmap for Achieving Profitable Growth with the Highest Return on Capital

This book provides an analytical and a systematic roadmap to achieve profitable growth with the highest return on capital. To achieve this objective consistently in a company, the book lays out a simple roadmap that aligns all functions and departments. Most business leaders have "experience bias," which refers to focusing on actions around their own respective strengths and background. For example, a business leader with a marketing background tends to look for ways to revive the company’s performance through marketing activities such as strategic planning, product positioning, and advertising. The problem with this approach is that a business is a labyrinth of cross-functional activities -- therefore, narrowing on only one area does not provide the expected results and sometimes forces all the efforts in an area of comfort for the business leader. This hides the real challenges of the business and the problem only continues to escalate. This book provides a holistic approach to transform your business.

Kiran Gurumurthy is a senior business executive that has led

business turnarounds in multiple industries. He has driven significant

improvements in both public and private equity space.

Kiran’ s strength— being able to look at complex problems, simplify

them, and then engage others to solve them— has been the secret to his

success. Kiran is leveraging this strength to document his lessons learned

at various companies into simple content for readers to learn and develop

their skills. Over the course of his career, Kiran has always trained and

developed others along the way. This development of people has given him

the confidence to document his approach and share with others. Over the

course of the next few years, Kiran plans to write books related to business

transformation, pricing, global supply chain management, global footprint

optimization, establishing centers of excellence, and talent identification

and development.

Kiran has held various roles and is currently the vice president of

operations and supply chain for an $8 billion Fortune 500 company.

He is well connected to senior business leaders across the globe. Kiran’ s

educational background includes having earned an MBA, an MS

(Industrial Engineering), and a BS (Mechanical Engineering). He is a

certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean expert.