Personal Kanban, Inquisitiveness and more with Jim Benson

In this interview, we have featured Jim Benson (Creator, Personal Kanban) and started our discussion with understanding what is Personal Kanban. Jim also shared his views on creating a right environment in an organisation, his favorite Lean strength – inquisitiveness and interesting tips on transforming an anti-collaborative team into a collaborative one.

Interviewee: Jim Benson (Creator, Personal Kanban)

Jim Benson is a pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban to knowledge work, he is the creator of Personal Kanban and co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, winner of the Shingo Research and Publication Award. His other books include Why Plans Fail, Why Limit WIP, and Beyond Agile. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. For the past two decades Jim has worked at uncovering ways for individuals and groups to communicate, collaborate, and find clarity in unpredictable and amorphous environments.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Digitisation of Financial Services with Lalit Mehta

There is no exaggeration in saying that the rise of technology has been a game changer for different domains in past few years. Financial Services are also not untouched with this innovation. In our recent interview, we featured Lalit Mehta (Co-Founder and Director, Decimal) and discussed about different aspects of digitisation of Financial Services.

He has highlighted the challenges we are still facing in digitising the Financial Services and shared some insights on the readiness of BFSI in India to become digital. We discussed in brief about the role MSME playing in its growth.

Interviewee: Lalit Mehta

Lalit is co-Founder and Director of Decimal, handling Product Development, Solution Architecture, and Strategy. He has worked in diverse functions including Sales, Pre-Sales, Development, Delivery and Customer Management. His prior stints include Lumis Partners, ADP India and software majors Polaris India and SQL Star. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering with 22 years of senior management experience.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)