Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam appear as a case study in Porus Munshi’s Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen — a book studying how Indian companies achieve breakthrough innovations against the odds.
Porus Munshi’s book Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen studies Indian companies that pulled off genuine breakthroughs — not incremental improvements. It picks its case studies carefully. Su-Kam Power Systems and Kunwer Sachdev are one of them.
Why Su-Kam is a breakthrough case
The book documents the specific gaps in India’s power-backup market that Sachdev identified and engineered around — from the first Indian-made sine-wave inverter to solar-powered systems for rural India. Each was a category-defining product, not a ‘me too’ response to what competitors were already shipping.
The pattern Munshi extracts
What the book pulls out of the Sachdev story is a repeatable framework: see a real customer problem no one is solving, ignore what competitors are shipping, engineer past the constraint (even if you cannot afford to right now), and let the product itself carry the brand. That framework then becomes the transferable lesson for other Indian founders.
“Breakthrough innovation does not come from following the market — it comes from imagining what the market does not yet know it needs.”— Kunwer Sachdev, as featured in Porus Munshi’s book
Why the book is still on founder reading lists
Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen keeps showing up on founder reading lists because it is not aspirational; it is granular. Each case study, Sachdev’s included, breaks down the specific decisions that produced the breakthrough — and gives the next generation of Indian founders a template they can apply.
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