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‘Lean’ is a strategic organization development intervention that aims to improve the Return On Investment (ROI) of any enterprise in addition to consolidating its competitiveness. It is a transformation vehicle for revisiting customer value and re-engineer the entire organizational value stream by eliminating waste to improve the velocity of information and material flow. The author aims to demystify the myths of Lean and guides its systematic application.
N C Narayanan
NC Narayanan, fondly known as ‘NC’, is the founder-chairman of SSA Business Solutions (P) Ltd., a global management consulting company headquartered in India. He founded SSA in 1999 with a personal mission to transform Indian industries to world-class – a goal that he has pursued passionately throughout his career spanning more than five decades. NC travels across the globe sharing his experience in various forums. As a CEO coach and mentor for leadership teams, NC has made significant contributions to hundreds of industries and thousands of individuals across Asia, the Middle East and Africa where he has earned the reputation of a ‘Transformation Catalyst’.
He is a voracious reader and also the author of many books. The most popular one is Pragmatic Leadership published by McGraw Hill Education which was well-received for human resource development. In this book, NC shared many tips for developing leadership skills through personal, team and organizational leadership in progression. This book has been translated into a regional language of India recently. Apart from self-development topics, NC has authored many management topics such as Enigma of Lean, Six Sigma in a Nutshell and Statistical Guide. He is an avid blogger who shares his knowledge and wisdom through many subjects in social media covering spirituality, music and many leadership development topics. His YouTube channel has many of his resources for public consumptions.
NC is a gold medallist in Mechanical Engineering, holds an MS (Research) degree in Computer-Aided Design from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, popularly known as IIT. He has also done his management program on Change Management.
