Advance Praise for Execution Dynamics

The book is currently out for early review. We will update this section as the quotes trickle in.

"This book gives business managers a powerful, systematic process for improving their businesses. Adam Garfein and Anil Menawat combine the important perspectives of Business Methods, Systems Thinking, and Dynamic Analysis to provide a comprehensive methodology that spans a business from its strategy to its operational components. Execution Dynamics offers a very understandable blend of analytical insights with practical change management."

- Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, Senior Lecturer, MIT and author of Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink

"In this age of speed, complexity and uncertainty, it is imperative to make effective decisions to ensure future business success. Execution Dynamics provides an excellent tool set and approach to guide these decisions with an analytical foundation that enables the user to deal with the enormous complexity in the modern business environment. "Gut-feel" and qualitative thinking are just not good enough anymore. Garfein and Menawat have provided an invaluable methodology to aid effective decisions and facilitate optimization in the smallest business unit to the overall organization."

- David E. Cole, Chairman, Auto Harvest and Chairman Emeritus, Center for Automotive Research

"Profit Mapping gives our managers, engineers, and operators a way of thinking about the bottom line, not just processes. In my experience, not enough attention goes to the tradeoffs between operational costs and capital investments. Profit Mapping provides a framework to strike the right balance. It helps us to consider things that we might not otherwise. As a result, savings are real and not a transfer of cost from one bucket to another. The data helps move the cultural resistance needle for change."

- Kevin R. Jacko, Plant Manager, Diversified Machine, Inc.

Remarkable thesis about applying systems dynamics to execute business strategies. The book provides insights into the process of business optimization--by taking a holistic yet granular look at all the interconnected operations which contribute to the end result--instead of suboptimization based on intuition and gut feel. A complete and thorough guide to perpetual continuous improvement process.

- Sujit Jain, Robert Bosch, LLC.

"Profit Mapping is an excellent guide to the concept of decision-making with the end in mind. Actions you take have consequences that can be analyzed by integrating financial and scenario information. Action choices in more real time based upon current facts as related to processes, resources and finances can prove to be most important in outcomes desired and improvements demanded."

- Ron May, Senior Vice President, DTE Energy

"There is a fundamental difference between complication-which is waste to be eliminated-and complexity-which is an unavoidable reality in the modern, global business environment. Future business success will be largely defined by a firm's ability to capitalize on this complexity by understanding the dynamics and executing faster and better than anyone else. Execution Dynamics provides excellent frameworks and relevant examples to enable your organization to master complexity and achieve profitable growth."

- Bob Parker, Group Vice President, IDC Industry Insights

"In the course of my work I see the need for tools that offer a holistic and systematic approach for greater and sustainable performance.  Adam and Anil have done a magnificent job in giving us valuable insight into new methods of improvement. Instead of applying a reductionist approach, which is short-sighted and limits the user to a "one-eye-look," they present a better solution. This is a well thought out book and absolutely essential for anyone in the business world."

- Zerihun R. Shumye, Ambassador, Consulate General of Ethiopia, Los Angeles

Execution Dynamics

Align to the Customer Quantum for the Best Possible Business Performance (coming early 2012)

This book is about operational and business transformation. More specifically, it is about the process of radically improving processes and policies using granular as well as holistic insights to create precise actions for the best possible customer and financial performance. Leading organizations understand the importance of competing on more than just their structural capabilities; they also master time-based competition. Often and without realizing it, organizations are immersed in improvement efforts that only harvest the lower hanging fruit when much more is within grasp. Superior business execution calls for more than the status quo of process improvement as product flows and financials are integrally tied to customer, process, and supply chain dynamics. 

Although ripe with opportunity execution dynamics are inherently more difficult to exploit without the aid of the right business methods, integrated thinking, and analytical tools. While it is imperative to pursue the easier targets, senior managers and stakeholders continue to ratchet up their improvement expectations. They demand bottom-line results now and have less tolerance for risk. To proactively address these challenges, we demonstrate in this book how to translate customer requirements into optimal space and time configurations throughout the value creation and delivery process. This requires on-demand adjustment to execution to gain competitive advantage, increase agility, and reduce risk. As a result, this approach simultaneously accelerates customer satisfaction and financial competitiveness. Moreover, using a holistic process is faster than conventional solutions and often yields hidden gems-simple actions that produce immediate and dramatic results.

This book is designed to be a reference-book on Profit Mapping-encompassing business methods, systems thinking, and dynamic analysis tools. The purpose is not simply to drive profitability but to pursue all of the business objectives in unison to out-compete others and win in the marketplace through superior customer focus and business execution.

Who Should Read This Book

• Top Managers - CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, Chief Strategy Officers, Presidents, Vice Presidents, General Managers
• Financial Roles - CFOs, Corporate Planners, Controllers, Business Analysts
• Operations Roles - Operations Managers, Plant Managers, Maintenance Managers, Supply Chain Managers, Directors, Department Heads
• Continuous Improvement - Lean, Six Sigma, Toyota Product System 
• Marketing and Sales
• Information Technology - Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Business Process Management, Supply Chain Management
• Government, Military, and Non-Profit Organizations
• Innovation
• Business Process Mapping
• Startups and Small Business Managers
• Systems Thinkers
• Students