A to Z of Meshed Organization

The book is all about creating a new organization AB INITIO. An organisation which is EMPOWERED & ENABLED.

The book is written by Jolly J Sen who has Corporate world Experience of over 25 years and then as Entrepreneur of about 10 years. He has worked in Top Indian and MNC companies sand has a first hand experience of CXO level decision making. He has handled large Business as Business Head. He has experience in both Indian Management decision making process as well as American MNCs. Jolly is an MBA of 1983 batch. This book has been written drawing all his experience across multiple geographies and multiple functional areas of Operations and Sales/Marketing.

While the whole world is afraid of the Pandemic and the economic fallout of disruption of businesses, the book looks at the opportunity this offers for rebuilding the organization as per market needs. It considers doing away with all functional heads calling them as Enablers. This removes all the boxes in business and allows seamless decision making. However it will be done with a human face. Retraining and Reskilling will dominate the next few years. 

The book is written with positivity and compassion. It is an all encompassing way forward to handle the post Covid Health Pandemic. While the whole world will go through huge churn and business dislocation, our integrity and wider sense of camaraderie will enable all of us to come out successfully.

The book proposes just a 3 layer organization Geography based. All Functional Heads and the CEO using their skills create a Decision Management System using AI/XL and IoT/Block Chain or any other technology of tomorrow to completely automate all business process. Right from Product finalization to manufacturing and all sales interaction to final payments to be based on an Intelligent System that will drive all businesses. Virtual Showrooms, Virtual Trial Rooms, User Controlled Remote Product Display etc will receive the focus of Business and hence Customers.

The CEO as Magellan of his business will have to chart out new ways for business revival. Things need to start Ab Initio. New market dynamics, new customer insights and new product needs would make the CEO think differently. The book guides how he can forget the past and use his skills to create a new and relevant new Mission and Vision and how he can really create a Meshed Organization by bring his Functional Heads as enablers. This is real enablement as the Functional Heads will no longer need to be defocussed by Operational issues. They just need to work on the vision of the CEO and along with other Functional Enablers create a business environment which becomes the foundation of all decision making processes.

The Geography Heads manage the complete business of his Geography: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing, Training & Development, and all HR and Customer processes. The CEO and Functional Heads enables the Geography Heads to drive the Geography P&L.

Frontline of all functional areas will be the real EMPOWERED people in the system. They with their supervisors called FACILITATOR will form the core business drivers. Real empowerment comes when customers are given the highest priority and all products, services and process are aligned to enhance their ORGANIZATION. THE MESHED ORGANIZATION PROPOSES AN ENABLED & EMPOWERED ORGANIZATION. AN ORGANIZATION WHERE THERE ARE NO DECISION MAKING BOXES. WHERE THERE ARE  NO EXCUSES. ALL PROCESSES ARE TRANSPARENT. A meshed organization operates like the Ants. They coalesce together to achieve a task and then rearrange for another task forming a system driven team. They need no bosses. They are simply task oriented. The production orders, supply chain and finishing of delivery process are  AI/self driven.