Shyam Talawadekar (1955): A Business-Doctor!

Management Author, Blogger & (Masaaki-'IMAI'-Award winning) Business Coach 

(on World-Class Lean-Management: The TOYOTA Approach)

In medical terms, Shyam is a 'business-doctor' as fondly called by the industry-fraternity. Shyam has helped national & international corporate houses to solve & prevent business-problems while helping them to become leaner, better, speedier & agile.

ROI (Return On Investment) of his 'treatment' is more than 50-to-500 percent at the minimum, in tranches of less than a week to a few weeks (the payback from the day of implementing the investment, if at all any). This of course depends upon the nature (chronicity) and the size of the problem.

*You may be surprised to know that, this Japanese-origin treatment, in one-word called as "Kaizen!" (The Corporate 'Yoga-cum-Ayurveda-cum-Homeopathy-cum-Allopathy'!), is almost a zero-investment one. Only investment is your commitment to learn it, adapt/adopt it as advised while implementing it & keep him in the feedback loop. Although he calls himself an idiosyncratic-Kaizenee, he has over a dozen (do-it-yourself) DIY-books & hundreds of blogposts to his credit on the subject.

'Medicines' he uses are a well-brewed blend of exercises in the 'Kaizen-Gym!': - 5-S, TPM, Pokayoke, Nichijo-Kanri, etc. for prevention, first-aid, rehabilitation, alongside adding value to business itself in general. - Kaku-shin, Hoshin-Kanri for crisis management, strategic improvements, creating moats as competitive-advantages & business-benchmarks. - SMED, MISER, etc. for business-agility. - Behavior Modulation Technique (BMT) for behavioral improvements & to create continual improvement culture through employee-engagement.

Shyam, a Juror for Business-Excellence-Awards at national level & the Masaaki-Imai awardee himself, is an alumnus of prestigious institutes such as JBIMS & VJTI. Apart from, reading, writing,; he keeps interest in singing, origami, self-watering vertical-gardening, cycling & carom as well. You may Google for the rest of the Shyam's idiosyncrasies, if this is not interesting enough.