Insights
The evidence behind the method.
Research, papers and policy work on where strategy is won and lost, from India, the Gulf and the markets we practise in.
2.36×
Delhi's output per person against India
The delivery dividend: Delhi's ₹23 lakh crore opportunity
Delhi has the wealth, the policies and the fiscal room. What it needs now is delivery.
The delivery dividend: Delhi's ₹23 lakh crore opportunity
Executive summary
Delhi produces 2.36 times India's output per person, and that lead is being squeezed from both sides. On trend, or if Delhi only keeps pace, it falls to about 1.9 times by 2047; delivering what is already approved keeps it near today's level. The fixes exist on paper. The missing step is delivery: notify the rules, fund them in Budget 2027-28, and publish the results.
In four lines
1 · What Delhi has
₹49,000
of output a month per resident, 2.36 times India
2 · What it must do
Delivery
notify, fund and measure what is approved
3 · What it earns
₹23 lakh crore
a year by 2047, on illustrative anchors
4 · Step one
0.02%
of Delhi's economy, in Budget 2027-28
- Release
- 1.0 · November 2026
- Data cut-off
- 28 October 2026
- Data
- Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/0KT2TJ
One Notification Away: Delhi's Global Capability Centre Moment
Delhi's GCC grant is one notification away: approved 13 October 2026, not yet claimable.
Rs 50 crore
top GCC grant approved, not yet notified
Why it holds
Approved 13 October 2026, not yet gazetted. Notify it, add one desk and a register, and open three doors for about Rs 29 crore in 2027-28.
The delivery dividend: Delhi's ₹23 lakh crore opportunity
Delhi has the wealth, the policies and the fiscal room. What it needs now is delivery.
2.36×
Delhi's output per person against India
Why it holds
Delivering what Delhi has already approved is worth about ₹23 lakh crore a year by 2047. The first step: 0.02% of its economy.
What India's top project review counts, and what it never checks
India's top project review clears blockers fast. No one checks what the projects delivered.
94%
of 3,162 issues resolved in 50 sittings
Why it holds
Outcomes show in three to seven years, long after the sitting that could act. Pace shows this month, so the review runs on pace.
Same OECD roadmap, same day, different finish
Same OECD roadmap, same day. Lithuania joined nearly three years before Costa Rica.
35 months
gap in joining dates, same-day roadmaps
Why it holds
Same instruments, same committees, same published tests for both. The OECD sets no completion deadline.
India's small retailers went digital. The records go unread.
82% of small retailers are confident with digital tools. Far fewer say income rose.
41%
of 10,000 say tools lifted their income
Why it holds
41% report higher income and 82% report confidence, same 10,000 respondents. Self-reported, one payments network, not an economy.
Indian firms stop growing where every decision still needs the founder
Fewer than 1 in 2,000 Indian firms is medium-sized. Growth stops where the founder decides.
36,816
medium firms of 7,61,12,097, 31 Jan 2026
Why it holds
In a randomised trial of large Indian textile firms, 93% of plants recorded defects. None had a standard way to analyse and act on them.
Three Eras of Strategy Execution
Two-thirds of strategic value has gone missing for six decades. The ratio never moved.
Why it holds
A structural reading: a seven-stage value chain, and the six infrastructure conditions that only became simultaneously available from 2023.
Five Universal Patterns of Strategy Execution Failure
Execution fails five ways, not a hundred. The barriers underneath them number fourteen.
5
patterns, 14 barriers, 3 severity tiers
Why it holds
A taxonomy synthesised from 180+ sources across six decades, with a severity-tiered barrier model and cross-pattern interaction analysis.
What Strategy Execution Actually Costs
About seven in ten lost dollars go before implementation starts. Prior studies measured only the loss after adoption.
$5.54bn
of $9.08bn a year, target market
Why it holds
TRUE LOSS measures both funnels across 40,344 qualified firms: in our target market, $3.86bn a year is lost to non-adoption and $1.67bn to post-adoption failure.