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Shah Mohammed M

@shahbaba

Author -Techies Who Talk to Plants. Industrial Designer, Design thinker and Customer-centric Business Strategy Consultant. https://xitter.cf/t.co/samoqJKhCr

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Israir and Arkia: When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Make a Stronger Competitor linkedin.com/pulse/israir-ar… #StrategyClinic #BusinessStrategy #MergersAndAcquisitions #StrategicFit
Israir and Arkia: When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Make a Stronger Competitor

Israir and Arkia: When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Make a Stronger Competitor

Israir is in preliminary talks to buy its main local rival Arkia. CEO Uri Sirkis told staff the aim is to compete better against foreign carriers.

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Reliance Expands in Biscuits. How Should Britannia Keep Winning? linkedin.com/pulse/reliance-… #BusinessStrategy #Britannia #Reliance #CompetitiveStrategy #StrategyClinic
Reliance Expands in Biscuits. How Should Britannia Keep Winning?

Reliance Expands in Biscuits. How Should Britannia Keep Winning?

When a powerful competitor challenges an established leader, the answer is not to fight everywhere. It is to know what must be defended, when to respond and where to move first.

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A Competitor Can Copy Your Business. Can They Copy How It All Fits Together? linkedin.com/pulse/competito… #BusinessStrategy #StrategicFit #CompetitiveAdvantage #AdaniPorts #CorporateStrategy
A Competitor Can Copy Your Business. Can They Copy How It All Fits Together?

A Competitor Can Copy Your Business. Can They Copy How It All Fits Together?

What Adani Ports' €2.56 billion Evos acquisition reveals about strategic fit and competitive advantage.

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When Demand Grows, What Should a Business Invest In? linkedin.com/pulse/when-dema… #BusinessStrategy #CustomerBehaviour #GrowthStrategy #InvestmentDecisions
When Demand Grows, What Should a Business Invest In?

When Demand Grows, What Should a Business Invest In?

A factory, a store network or a distribution system can remain in place long after the assumptions behind it have changed. Those assumptions are not always easy to see.

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When the Disruptor Gets Disrupted: Canva’s Hardest Day linkedin.com/pulse/when-disr… #Canva #BusinessStrategy #Disruption #ArtificialIntelligence #StrategicThinking
When the Disruptor Gets Disrupted: Canva’s Hardest Day

When the Disruptor Gets Disrupted: Canva’s Hardest Day

On November 4, 2026, Canva announced one of the most painful decisions in its thirteen-year history. A restructuring will affect 1,271 employees, representing 22% of its workforce.

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Can an Organisation Become More Efficient and Less Intelligent? linkedin.com/pulse/can-organ… #BusinessStrategy #OrganisationalDesign #StrategicManagement #Leadership #CompetitiveAdvantage #Nike
Can an Organisation Become More Efficient and Less Intelligent?

Can an Organisation Become More Efficient and Less Intelligent?

Can an Organisation Become More Efficient and Less Intelligent? When restructuring improves coordination but weakens the knowledge that makes a business competitive. In 2020, Nike reorganised its...

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The Capability Standing Between You and Your Next Customer linkedin.com/pulse/capabilit… #StrategyClinic #BusinessStrategy #CorporateAutopsy #Growth #MidMarket
The Capability Standing Between You and Your Next Customer

The Capability Standing Between You and Your Next Customer

Sometimes, the problem isn't what your company does poorly. It's what your company cannot do at all.

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Everyone Met Their Targets. So Why Is the Company Losing Ground? linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-… #StrategyClinic #BusinessStrategy #Leadership #CEO #CorporateStrategy
Everyone Met Their Targets. So Why Is the Company Losing Ground?

Everyone Met Their Targets. So Why Is the Company Losing Ground?

The annual review at a mid-sized manufacturing company went beautifully. Sales had beaten its revenue target.

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Blinkit Is Widening. Instamart Is Deepening. But Is Deepening Enough? linkedin.com/pulse/blinkit-w… #BusinessStrategy #QuickCommerce #Blinkit #Instamart #Swiggy #Eternal #CorporateAutopsy
Blinkit Is Widening. Instamart Is Deepening. But Is Deepening Enough?

Blinkit Is Widening. Instamart Is Deepening. But Is Deepening Enough?

On 21 October, Eternal said Blinkit would cross 3,500 dark stores by March 2027. It had added 308 stores in the September quarter alone, taking its total to 2,751.

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The Business Growth That Was Borrowed From Tomorrow linkedin.com/pulse/business-… #BusinessStrategy #GrowthStrategy #CustomerCentricity #leadership #corporateautopsy #workplaceculture #businesssuccess #diversification #Strategy #Wix #unsettled #businesscasestudy
The Business Growth That Was Borrowed From Tomorrow

The Business Growth That Was Borrowed From Tomorrow

Why extraordinary sales can conceal a weaker future — and how companies mistake a temporary surge for permanent growth. A company reports its best year ever.

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The Customer Metric That Separates Bigger Businesses From Better Ones linkedin.com/pulse/customer-… #BusinessStrategy #GrowthStrategy #CustomerCentricity #leadership #corporateautopsy #workplaceculture #businesssuccess #diversification #Strategy #Wix
The Customer Metric That Separates Bigger Businesses From Better Ones

The Customer Metric That Separates Bigger Businesses From Better Ones

Most companies know whether they are getting bigger. Far fewer know whether they are getting better.

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Delivered expired food by @Instamart_in! Received Noice Chips (May 2026) from a dark store, in Secunderabad. Consumed before noticing the date. Automated refunds don't fix public health risks. @cfs_telangana @GHMCOfficial @Swiggy @SwiggyCares @ConsumerFeed #FoodSafety #Hyderabad
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Would You Still Want Your Free Users If They Never Paid? linkedin.com/pulse/would-you… #BusinessStrategy #GrowthStrategy #CustomerCentricity #leadership #corporateautopsy #workplaceculture #businesssuccess #diversification #Strategy #Wix
Would You Still Want Your Free Users If They Never Paid?

Would You Still Want Your Free Users If They Never Paid?

Freemium is having a moment. Every SaaS playbook, every founder deck, every "growth" thread on the internet treats it as a default setting rather than a decision.

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A Strategy Lesson from Wix: Growth Follows the Customer, Not the Company linkedin.com/pulse/strategy-… #BusinessStrategy #GrowthStrategy #CustomerCentricity #leadership #corporateautopsy #workplaceculture #businesssuccess #diversification #Strategy #Wix
A Strategy Lesson from Wix: Growth Follows the Customer, Not the Company

A Strategy Lesson from Wix: Growth Follows the Customer, Not the Company

When companies look for growth, they often begin in a very familiar place. With themselves.

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Employer Brand vs. Employer Reputation: The Distinction That Builds the Best Companies linkedin.com/pulse/employer-… #EmployerBranding #CorporateStrategy #Leadership #WorkplaceCulture #TalentStrategy #businessstrategy
Employer Brand vs. Employer Reputation: The Distinction That Builds the Best Companies

Employer Brand vs. Employer Reputation: The Distinction That Builds the Best Companies

Almost every large company has an employer brand. There is a careers page filled with smiling employees.

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The Sandpaper Test: Is Your Culture Improving the Work, or Just Numbing It? linkedin.com/pulse/sandpaper… #WorkplaceCulture #EmployeeEngagement #Leadership #FutureOfWork #SandpaperLeadership
The Sandpaper Test: Is Your Culture Improving the Work, or Just Numbing It?

The Sandpaper Test: Is Your Culture Improving the Work, or Just Numbing It?

I discovered something about workplace culture while washing dishes. For a long time, I made boring household work easier by adding something enjoyable to it.

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Should You Kill a Business That Still Works? linkedin.com/pulse/should-yo… #SelfDisruption #StrategyTalk #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #CorporateStrategy #LeadershipLessons #DisruptiveInnovation #StrategicThinking
Should You Kill a Business That Still Works?

Should You Kill a Business That Still Works?

The worst time to start replacing your business may be when everyone agrees it needs replacing. By then, customers may already be leaving.

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The One Question That Predicts Whether Your Pricing Model Will Survive linkedin.com/pulse/one-quest… #BusinessStrategy #Strategy #Leadership #CompetitiveStrategy #BusinessTransformation #Management #Innovation #TheNearMiss
The One Question That Predicts Whether Your Pricing Model Will Survive

The One Question That Predicts Whether Your Pricing Model Will Survive

Most companies ask: How much will customers pay? But there is a more important question: What exactly are we charging for — and will that thing still represent customer value five years from now?...

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Sometimes Better Execution Makes the Problem Worse linkedin.com/pulse/sometimes… #BusinessStrategy #Strategy #Leadership #CompetitiveStrategy #BusinessTransformation #Management #Innovation #TheNearMiss
Sometimes Better Execution Makes the Problem Worse

Sometimes Better Execution Makes the Problem Worse

One of the most dangerous sentences in business is: “We just need to execute better.” Sales are slowing? Push the sales team harder.

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