BOOKS
A good book is an education in itself, and a great book can change your life
RUSKIN BOND
INDIAN AUTHOR
AUTHORED BY VIVEK
In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant
“In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant” is a comprehensive guide offering insights from more than 100 experienced professionals with decades of experience in manufacturing. Unlike most books on manufacturing that focus on specific topics, this book offers an expansive view of the manufacturing process. It provides a deeper understanding of the connections between business processes and technology, which are crucial areas in the manufacturing industry.
Call Centre Performance Enhancement Using Simulation and Modeling
This book explains how simulation technology can help managers make better decisions while managing call centers amidst technological changes, rising customer expectations, and re-engineering initiatives. It provides guidelines for using simulation responsibly and explores current and future trends in the call center and simulation software industries.
CONTRIBUTED
Future Strong: How to Work Unleashed, Lead Boldly, and Live Life Your Way
In Future Strong, Bill Jensen explores simply and powerfully how personal choices made during the most difficult of situations shape how we lead. Bill dedicates a chapter to profiling Vivek as one of the leaders who leads by example – grounded in the past, but with a clear eyed view of the future. exemplifying the fact that limitless possibilities are ours to shape, if we so choose, because our choices are where our future begins.
The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower
The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety is built into the very nature of leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good. Morra shares personal leadership lessons on mental health, including his pioneering work in raising the awareness of mental health in the workplace in the C-Suite and lessons learned in putting it into practice across globally distributed teams across different nationalities, demographics and generations.
Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal
Business model innovators have reshaped entire sectors—including retail, aviation, and media—and redistributed billions of dollars of value. In this book, Mark shares road-tested frameworks, analytics, and diagnostics, this book gives executives everything they need to reshape their businesses and achieve transformative growth. In this book Mark shares a few examples from Vivek’s work on creating growth and innovation mindsets across large and small organizations and leading transformation change with simple, but effective strategy models.
The CMO Manifesto: A 100-Day Action Plan for Marketing Change Agents
The CMO Manifesto – A 100-Day Action Plan for Marketing Change Agents is the essential guidebook for marketing executives who have been chartered to disrupt the status quo and become leaders of positive change at their companies. John Ellett shares examples from Vivek’s work as the Global Head of Marketing Strategy at SAP in creating and executing large scale marketing transformations by disrupting existing marketing strategies, rethinking the marketing mix, and executing successfully across global and regional teams spanning over 180 countries.
The Purpose Advantage: How to Unlock New Ways of Doing Business
What a brand stands for, and the actions it takes to prove it, can provide a necessary memorability consumers draw on when they make purchasing decisions. From interviews with CEOs from some of the most purpose-driven brands today to a step-by-step workshop on finding your own brand’s reason for existing beyond profit, this book explores how standing for something more than just the bottomline is a powerful way to connect to modern consumer. Jeff profiles Vivek’s leadership as the Head of Brand Purpose in shaping SAP as a purpose driven brands over a decade – from concept to scale, leading to SAP’s recognition as the #1 Purpose Brand Leader amongst Technology Companie for three years in a row.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Digitalist Magazine by SAP
As Editor and Publisher, Vivek and his team created this world class publication that delivered cutting edge technology advances, insightful thought leadership and world class customer stories on digital business transformation
Leading with Purpose
Vivek served as the Editor in Chief of “Leading with Purpose”, an SAP Magazine that shared how SAP and its ecosystem created sustainable value and practices consistent with SAP’s purpose – to help the world run better and improve peoples lives.
Leading with Purpose
Vivek served as the Editor in Chief of “Leading with Purpose”, an SAP Magazine that shared how SAP and its ecosystem created sustainable value and practices consistent with SAP’s purpose – to help the world run better and improve peoples lives.