New Delhi: “Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels” by authors Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Mashelkar illustrates the real-life examples from diverse worlds – manufacturing giants, environmental firms, NASA, toy manufacturers – to explain how companies achieve what the authors term “exprovement” or radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that change the very parameters of a problem.
The authors give the readers an insight into how the application of parallels to their own organisation could create exponential improvement, breakthroughs, new solutions, new markets and even entirely new industries in some cases.
The book celebrates the concept that diversity of perspectives is the key to extraordinary breakthroughs and has come together to conceptualise, develop and share the idea of “exprovement”.
Covering areas as diverse as healthcare, architecture, eldercare, space exploration, sports team management and gastronomy, to name just a few, the scope of exprovement isn’t by any means limited to just a few industries or areas of study – the cases explored in the book highlight how the concept can be applied to any organization by drawing parallels.
Mukesh D. Ambani, chairman and managing director, Reliance Industries, said, “Dr Mashelkar has always provided the vision to achieve innovation-led exponential growth for India. This new Haladker-Mashelkar book gives a fascinating new path to achieving disruptive game-changing innovation.
For Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group, it’s a richly illustrated, inspiring book that shows how the unexpected connection is more powerful than the obvious. “Businesses can achieve exponential, not just incremental improvement if they adopt the new insightful innovation strategies emanating from this book,” he adds.
Raghunath Mashelkar, Fellow of the Royal Society, London (FRS), is one of India’s foremost science and innovation leaders. He gave transformative leadership to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as its director general.
Hersh Haladker – an innovation practitioner – is the founder of InstillMotion, an innovation lab and consulting firm that has worked with several Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries to enable the “exprovement” of unique business challenges.
“Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels” outlines the ways in which one can begin to develop an “exprovement mindset”, with tips, thoughts and practical tools as guides.
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