Dilesh Patel
Biography
Dilesh Patel is a co-founder and president of the Visual Communications company, GumshoeKI . Previously the director of major accounts at SDRC, Dilesh received his degrees in engineering from the University of Southampton in England and from MIT.
He has broad international experience having lived in Africa, Europe and America and with an Asian heritage. His work with global companies like Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Nissan and Siemens has taught him the power of simple visual alphabets in developing world class processes.
Over the last 4 years, Dilesh's passion for visual communication has been channeled to developing simple visual software solutions that can be easily deployed by business users. GumshoeKI's eVSM software is based around the value stream mapping methodology in the best selling book "Learning to See". eVSM provides lean practitioners an easy way to draw, analyze and share the value stream maps that are critical discovery and planning tools in a lean initiative.