As business practices and technology continue to evolve, a “360-degree strategy” is inevitable for optimal technology adoption that can return high ROI on technology investments and foster business growth, user centricity, and operational efficiency. This strategy engulfs all or some of high ROI business process identification, enterprise architecture definition, solution approach and design, outsourcing and operating strategy carve-out, technology & product selection, technology budget management & investment decisions, vendor and procurement negotiations, managed services strategy, holistic operations strategy, change management and more.
I help you create curated IT strategy aligned to your business plan to attract investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, partners, end consumers as well as persistent stakeholders. I do not provide a particular product or provider recommendation and let the business function pick and chose out of the broader options.
During my EMBA tenure at NYU the Art of negotiation was one topic of intense preaching but subjective practice. The most impressive book for me was Herb Cohen’s – You Can Negotiate Anything. This book practically gave examples of practicing negotiation extensively in every walks of life and through very simple unattended levers. But a…
Neo-AI, the new age of AI, is powered by different architectural patterns. These include Gen-AI, LLM, and SLM powered operations. It also encompasses custom developed Agentic-AI decisioning nodes, orchestration, and workflows. Alternatively, you can leverage Agentic-capabilities with out of the box product suites. Examples are SAP Joule, Salesforce Einstein, ServiceNow Assist, MS, and *Copilots. These…
The race for “Everything as AI-led” has since beginning of 2025, made AI-led SDLC adoption an intense need. Leveraging Gen AI and Agentic platforms and frameworks for the majority of erstwhile human-led SDLC phases has become a key solution architecture mandate. Technology build, or platform implementation, programs are now expected to show a 40-50% cost…
The years 2023-2024 kept markets busy in geopolitical conflicts. Predominantly leading supply chain disruptions and rising inflation rates. It drove fear of recession while muting expenditures and investments across industries, markets, and economies. The upside was the strong fundamentals of industries. The hype cycle of AI-led growth was also notable. Additionally, tolerant trade policies and…
How much of AI are we going to need to call it a productivity plateau? I continue my previous article on “Optimal-mix-ai-gen-ai-co-pilots-agentic-human” mix. Here comes another transformative piece. I have been tracking it closely around AI PC’s. This came into perspective towards end of Q3-2024. The push towards Windows 11 migration propelled this change. MS…
I was working with a start-up CISO, recently on “whats” and “hows” of CyberSecurity adoption. Full disclosure, the whole adoption canvas looked so scary with his lens. It became important for me to explain in steps the minimalist approach to adopt to help the company propel growth and at least exit the “death valley.” The…
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