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title: Top Industry thought-leaders (Individuals vs. Companies) - Research Report 2018/19
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# [Top Industry thought-leaders (Individuals vs. Companies) - Research Report 2018/19](https://insights.btoes.com/research-report-2018/19-top-industry-thought-leaders-individuals-vs-companies)

 Written by [Vijay Bajaj](https://insights.btoes.com/author/vijay-bajaj) | Jan 8, 2019, 11:00:00 AM

# Research Report 2019/20 - The Global State of Operational Excellence: Critical Challenges & Future Trends

 

**Who are your top 3 industry thought leaders that you would want to hear from?**

If you want to learn more on the [Research Report 2018/19](https://insights.btoes.com/download-research-report-2018/19-the-global-state-of-operational-excellence-critical-challenges-future-trends) click here.

### [Research Report 2019/20 - The Global State of Operational Excellence: Critical Challenges & Future Trends](https://insights.btoes.com/research-report-2018/19-the-global-state-of-operational-excellence-critical-challenges-future-trends)

People are more interested in hearing from practitioners from progressive companies or have peer to peer interactions, than hear from inspirational keynotes. Though Jeff Bezos scored the highest, only 4.7% of the respondents listed him, compared to 9% for amazon. Notably 10 years ago over 30% of respondents mentioned Jim collins, and 15 years ago over 40% of respondents mentioned Jack Welsh. people are now looking for practical tactics, how to, what to, from practitioners who have done, in companies they admire.

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**About the Author**

***Vijay Bajaj,** Founder and CEO of BTOES has founded, built and sold two successful market-leading businesses. The first in London, UK in the office equipment distribution sector, which he launched in 1991 and sold to Ingram Micro in 1999, after which he took a year off and traveled around India with his wife. The second headquartered out of Chicago, IL, in the large-scale commercial B2B conference sector, which was launched in 2001 and sold in 2012.*

*In 2012 he retired to spend time with family and focus on meditation.*

*In 2015 he was looking for the next challenge and founded and is currently CEO of the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry Awards (BTOES), which has become the largest senior-level cross-industry event within the sector, BTOES.com, and BTOESInsights.com a professional online content platform for senior-level executives involved in continuous improvement, which has grown to over 188,000 subscribers.*

*He is also an angel investor, mentor, and board advisor.*

*Vijay lives in Stanmore, Middlesex, UK, with his wife Reshma, son Armaan, and labrador Archie.*

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