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Sudhir Ahluwalia
Dadri, India
AI Knowledge Strategist | Researcher | Course Architect
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AI Knowledge Strategist | Researcher | Course Architect
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Climate Change, Energy Transition, and What Comes Next Climate change is no longer a future risk—it is a systemic force already reshaping weather, food security, energy systems, and work. Rising greenhouse gas emissions have intensified heat, altered rainfall, and increased climate volatility, with the heaviest impacts falling on vulnerable regions. At the same time, the global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy marks one of the largest economic transitions in history. It will demand unprecedented investment, infrastructure change, and workforce realignment—while opening new pathways for innovation and resilience. This perspective draws from long-form work I’ve ghostwritten on climate risk and systems transformation. Where do you see the biggest gap today—policy, capital, technology, or narrative?
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The Real Reason IT Services Firms Struggle with Strategy IT services companies don’t fail at strategic consulting because they lack smart people. They struggle because strategy thrives in ambiguity—while IT delivery demands certainty. Consulting requires framing problems, anticipating fears, and designing solutions before requirements are fixed. IT services are built to execute once everything is defined. Without deliberate dialogue between strategy and delivery leaders, the two worlds talk past each other. Consultants disengage. Strategy becomes a slide deck, not a capability. The gap is not technical. It’s cultural. And closing it requires a mindset change, not more process.
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I was recently commissioned to study and make recommendations on strategies for food security in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. The core issue is stark: NENA faces a severe and persistent water deficit, which population growth will only exacerbate, widening the food demand-supply gap. Precision irrigation and, critically, large-scale use of recycled wastewater can help. However, the adoption of these vital, sustainable solutions is currently dependent on a single, volatile factor: the global price of food imports. This raises a critical strategic question for NENA countries: Should governments implement policies now to accelerate water technology adoption, treating resilience as a national security asset, or continue to gamble on the stability and affordability of the global food market?  
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Business turnaround of a 1000 full-time employee-stressed company.
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SUDHAN Baskaran
Bengaluru, India
Turning User Insights Into Business Growth Strategies
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Turning User Insights Into Business Growth Strategies
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Here is an uncomfortable truth about traditional consulting. It tells you what to do. It tells you why you should do it. But it almost never tells you how to actually make it work in the real world , with real people, real constraints and real uncertainty. That gap between knowing and doing is where most strategies die. Traditional consulting has three critical blind spots and most businesses do not realize they are paying for advice that misses all three. Day 2 of this series breaks down exactly what those gaps are and why Design Thinking was built to close them. If you have ever received a consulting report that sat in a drawer and changed nothing ... this post is for you. Your business deserves more than a framework. It deserves a strategy built from what your users actually experience. That is what I do and the results speak for themselves. 📩 Explore my work or drop me a message. Let us find what your business is really missing. #DesignThinking #ConsultingInsights #BusinessStrategy #GrowthConsulting #Innovation #HumanCenteredDesign #IIMTrichy #StartupGrowth
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An educational breakdown of the Design Thinking framework — what it is, why it exists, the 5 stages, and the 4 pillars that make it work. Part of an ongoing series on how human-centred strategy drives better business outcomes. Used by IDEO, Stanford d.school, Apple, Airbnb and IBM — Design Thinking is not a trend. It is a structured methodology for solving the right problems the right way.
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Thangam Aval Mill had built a strong B2B reputation but was experiencing growth stagnation. Through deep user research we identified a significant and largely untapped B2C opportunity the business had never fully explored. Using the full design thinking framework — empathy mapping, journey mapping, buyer utility analysis, prototyping, and live customer testing — we redesigned the entire customer experience from entry to purchase. The real problem was not the product. It was the experience surrounding it. Narrow pathways, no price boards, confusing navigation, a single hidden QR code, and zero brand identity were silently pushing walk-in customers away. After prototyping and testing with real customers we achieved 70% customer adoption of the redesigned journey, reduced purchase time by 33%, drove 60% combo product uptake, and eliminated all navigation complaints post-redesign. A complete growth strategy roadmap and strategic cascade was delivered for sustainable B2C expansion.
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Most businesses solve the wrong problem brilliantly. Design Thinking exists to make sure you never do that. Before any strategy. Before any solution. Before any execution , you need to truly understand what problem you are actually solving and whose life it affects. That is what Design Thinking does. It is not a trend. It is not a buzzword. It is a structured way of thinking that the world's most innovative companies like IDEO, Apple, Airbnb, IBM use to build things people actually want. Day 1 of this series breaks down what Design Thinking really is — in plain language, no jargon. Save this. Share it with someone building something. And if your business is struggling to grow, losing customers quietly, or solving problems that keep coming back ,that is usually a sign the real problem has never been properly understood. That is exactly what I help businesses uncover. 📩 DM me or visit my profile to see how I have done it for real businesses. #DesignThinking #GrowthStrategy #BusinessConsulting #Innovation #StartupStrategy #CustomerExperience #IIM
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Vishal S Jain
New Delhi, India
Principal Advisor | Built Environment Growth & Margin System
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Principal Advisor | Built Environment Growth & Margin System
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Enterprise Governance Architecture™ (EGA) is a structured operating-control framework designed to help project-driven and execution-heavy B2B businesses scale without losing profitability, control, execution discipline, or decision clarity. It is not just “governance” in the corporate compliance sense. It is a business operating architecture that integrates: Strategy Commercial controls Financial discipline Execution systems Risk governance Decision-making hierarchy Margin protection mechanisms into one connected framework.
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The global economy is entering a higher-risk, higher-cost, and more selective growth phase. With slower global growth, energy volatility, geopolitical tensions, and tighter financial conditions, businesses across the built-environment sector are beginning to feel direct pressure. For India & Asia: • Inflation, energy costs, and currency pressure remain key risks. For UAE & GCC: • Growth opportunities continue, supported by infrastructure, real estate, and non-oil expansion — but with rising governance and execution expectations. For Furniture, Interiors, Fit-Out, EPC & Construction businesses, the impact is clear: • Raw material volatility • Freight escalation • Working capital stress • Fixed-price contract risk • Margin pressure • Slower decision cycles In this cycle, growth without governance becomes financially dangerous. The future winners in the built environment may not necessarily be the fastest-growing companies — but the most commercially disciplined ones. Check Strategic Advisory Report: “2026 Global Economic Outlook and Strategic Mandates for the APAC Built Environment”
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A structured executive governance system designed to strengthen commercial control, protect margins, and improve decision discipline across project-driven businesses. Commercial Governance™ represents the first and most critical layer where profitability is either structurally protected or quietly lost — long before project execution begins. Built for leadership teams operating in complex project-led environments where pricing decisions, bid approvals, authority structures, and execution commitments directly impact margin performance.
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Executive Revenue & Margin Diagnostic. A structured executive diagnostic framework designed to help leadership teams strengthen margin visibility, improve commercial control, and drive focused execution within project-driven businesses. Built for founders, CXOs, and leadership teams operating in complex project-led environments where revenue growth does not always translate into sustainable profitability. It is a practical governance and diagnostic system built from real operating experience across project-driven businesses where margins are often diluted through fragmented decision-making, execution gaps, commercial assumptions, and operational inefficiencies.
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Bithindra Biswas
Mumbai, India
Marketing & Sales Leader, IIM Grad, Driving Growth
Marketing & Sales Leader, IIM Grad, Driving Growth
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Disruptive Marketing: Making your Brand, stand out in a Clutter…
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Market Expansion to newer Cities
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Google Ads Display Certification
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Santrupti Dash
Raipur, India
Operations & Project Support | Detail-Driven & PM-Minded
Operations & Project Support | Detail-Driven & PM-Minded
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SOP + Task Automation System
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Async Ops System & Onboarding Flow
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KPI Reporting Dashboard System
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