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title: Surya Yeshwanth Mandapaka  - Individual Impact Award
description: "Individual LCS Impact Award Winner: Surya Yeshwanth Mandapaka, Tycon Infrastructures."
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# [Surya Yeshwanth Mandapaka  - Individual Impact Award](https://blog.leancompetency.org/lcs-impact-awards/surya-yeshwanth-mandapaka-impact-award)

 Written by [Sarah Wooledge](https://blog.leancompetency.org/lcs-impact-awards/author/sarah-wooledge) | Aug 26, 2025 1:23:17 PM

### Background

 

At a time when Tycon Infrastructures was experiencing rapid portfolio growth, the organization faced internal challenges: inconsistent delivery processes, cross-functional friction, limited transparency, and reactive decision-making. Surya Mandapaka, then Managing Director of Projects & Operations, recognized that these were not people problems — they were systemic design issues. Rather than introduce isolated fixes, Surya envisioned a lean-centered transformation that would unify project governance, build scalable capability, and instill a culture of continuous improvement.

He launched a year-long initiative to establish Tycon’s first centralized Project Management Office (PMO), with the goal of creating alignment across strategy, execution, and learning. His belief was clear: structure should enable agility, not restrict it. His focus was not just to improve operational efficiency, but to empower people with systems that would grow with them.

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