The White Collared Gig Economy in India – 2

This is the concluding part of this post on the Gig Economy and the changes it is bringing about in India. Let us now talk about India in specific. We already know that the gig economy has been prevalent in India, for a long time now, especially in agriculture....

Five Deadly Digital Transformation Sins

Some of our previous conversations around Digital Transformation (DX) have been around the probability of its success in your organization, where it should be led from and so on. We push collaboration, strategic alignment and leadership as the sine qua non, in our DX strategy engagements too. What we...

The White Collared Gig Economy – I

Gig economy, gig workers, moonlighting, an IT services major firing some 300 people; all suddenly rather topical, isn’t it? Everyone is talking about it and has an opinion. Well, so do we. But, before we get there, let us do a quick snapshot on the genesis and what this...

The Humble Checklist

Here is a post about process execution using four aviation related incidents as examples. No harm was caused in three of those, but in the first one below, people lost lives. In essence flying a plane, and its operations on the ground are expected to be a streamlined process....

Before you start the Transformation…

Suhas Dutta As we engage with organizations taking baby Digital Transformation steps, we notice commonalities. Some of those commonalities pose stumbling blocks, especially in traditionally run companies. Most, are easy to guess e.g. lack of overall planning or strategy, inadequate investments, leadership / ownership at the wrong level or...

Cloud Adoption – Who is Responsible?

Appears, if you read news reports, that phenomenal percentages of companies have started, accelerated or have completed their Digital Transformation during the last 15 – 18 months due to COVID. Similarly, COVID certainly has dramatically accelerated the pace of cloud adoption . But, these reports need an extent of...

The world of RPA needs Open Standards

As a technology develops, proliferates, matures along with demand, people start questioning its ability (or lack thereof) to deliver on promised improvements in innovation, new (or increased) revenue streams and cost savings and the like. Those three are the final outcomes in any case. And now, those questions are...

5 Trends impacting CPG in 2021

Some trends in 2021 will be telling for the future of the Consumer Products industry, and definitely for many brands within. Whether they can pick the steam from the pandemic year or not will make the difference. Can they recognize the trends and the shifts?...

Is your RPA ROI getting eroded?

Though we all know that Process Automation, either simple RPA, or intelligent, can bring in 30-75% cost savings, we often see the ROI getting eroded. Why does that happen?...