Est. 2006

Chief Operating Officer · India · Global perspective

September 2026 edition

Ishani Srinivasan

Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.

Section · Areas of practice

Where I bring operating model design to bear.

The domains in which I have carried accountability, and the judgement I bring to each.

  1. 01Operating model design
  2. 02Service delivery
  3. 03Supply chain resilience
  4. 04Performance improvement

How I lead

Operations should make dependable delivery repeatable. I make ownership and constraints visible, listen to frontline evidence and improve the whole workflow rather than optimise one function at another's expense.

At scale

The responsibility, in figures

97.6%

On-time delivery

Up from 81% across the network

₹1,150 Cr

Cost removed

Without reducing service quality

64

Sites run

Plants, warehouses and service centres

−48%

Safety incidents

Over three operating years

In practice

Decisions and their consequences

Case 01

Operating model redesign

An organisation had grown through local improvisation, leaving hand-offs between commercial and delivery teams unclear. I mapped the end-to-end workflow with team leaders, assigned ownership at the points where work crossed functions and established a shared escalation routine. The redesign made service commitments and capacity decisions part of the same conversation.

Case 02

Delivery reliability

Delivery teams were responding to recurring exceptions as if each were new. We separated demand variation from avoidable process failure, reviewed the causes with frontline colleagues and gave recurring issues a named owner. The operating review shifted from reporting yesterday's misses to removing the conditions that produced them.

Case 03

Productivity and quality

A productivity programme risked moving costs from one function to another without improving the customer outcome. I introduced end-to-end measures alongside local targets and tested changes in a contained operating unit before wider adoption. Quality, workload and service reliability remained visible throughout the decision.