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THE KNOWLEDGE ADVANTAGE
Performance matters! It has to be demonstrated consistently, sustainably. Unique knowledge capabilities drive business performance. These must be built up to align with the strategic priorities. Leaders and managers have to convert known concepts into ‘business-first’ solutions to create vital sustainable competitive advantages.
‘The Knowledge Advantage’ helps you achieve it using a practical solutions approach to Strategic Knowledge Management. It offers a comprehensive roadmap for managers and professionals to understand, design, and lead strategic knowledge solutions that drive real business results. Moving beyond theory, it presents a structured approach to discovering knowledge gaps, designing effective solutions, actualizing initiatives, and realizing tangible benefits.
* Essential knowledge concepts for business performance
* Application insights into strategic knowledge initiatives
* Five-stage knowledge solutions lifecycle
* Overarching knowledge architecture for knowledge solutions
* Managing return on knowledge investments
* Knowledge strategy for sustainable competitive advantage
‘Transforming knowledge into the fuel of business success’
Sandeep Khedkar is a Strategic Management and Process Transformation specialist with over three decades of global, multi-industry experience spanning consulting, academia, and enterprise leadership. His work integrates the worlds of applied management, business process excellence, business-technology solutions, systematic innovation, knowledge management, and managerial capability development, offering thought leadership towards integrated solutions that help organizations achieve sustained performance improvement.
A seasoned educator, consultant, and conceptual thinker, Sandeep has served in wide range of roles with leading organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, KPIT, SSA Global, Baan Satyam and Praj, in addition to advising numerous business-technology driven transformation initiatives across industries.
As a faculty member and mentor at premier business schools including NMIMS and Symbiosis International University, he has shaped the strategic and operational thinking of hundreds of MBA students and executives through courses on strategy, innovation, and operations.
He specializes in the innovative application of known management concepts, tools, and best practices to address specific business challenges and generate robust solutions through abstraction and logical deduction. His specialty is the simplification of complex, interlinked concepts using intuitive diagrams, lucidly explaining their real-life application for developing practical solutions with relevant examples, while maintaining a sharp focus on the integrated and interdependent nature of business processes within organizations.
An accomplished author, Sandeep has authored three books.
1. Boundary Rediscovered – An Elemental Rethink of the People Services Supply Chain
2. A Tryst with Time – The Subtle Art of Process Transformation.
3. The Knowledge Advantage - A Solutions Approach for Strategic Knowledge Management
These books present novel approaches to strategic business analysis, performance management, solution development, creation of business models, and their successful implementation to ensure strategic business transformation. He seeks to make management thought both practical and human-centred, blending analytical rigor with creative insight.
He obtained his Master of Financial Management degree from NMIMS, Mumbai University, India and the Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) degree from Pune University, India.
Sandeep also paints evocative watercolor landscapes and abstracts, plus writes poetry inspired by nature and spirituality.