Touchstones

In the fast-paced world of consulting, staying ahead of technology trends is crucial to stay relevant and provide the best solutions for clients. As we step into 2024, it’s important to evaluate the technology trends that are reshaping the consulting industry and how consultants can navigate this rapidly changing landscape. Artificial Intelligence Takes Center Stage Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for years, but its impact on the consulting industry is becoming more prominent. AI-powered algorithms are not only automating repetitive tasks but also providing data-driven insights and recommendations. Consultants need to embrace AI tools to augment their decision-making process and provide even more accurate and efficient solutions. Additionally, AI can help consultants analyze vast amounts of data to uncover patterns and trends that were previously hard to identify. Automation: A Collaborative Approach Automation is nothing new in the consulting industry, but its significance is increasing. As repetitive tasks…

Small businesses are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Find out the top cyber security strategies and practices for small businesses to follow and implement.

Resurrection is painful. Nobody ever said it was easy. 2021 was the year of resurrection from a painful 2020 that left the world scarred and questioning its raison d’être. The world rose slowly out of its torpor with grim determination.

While there has definitely been growth in the R&D spend (nearly doubling) in the last decade, it is extraordinary that in the age of scientific research propelling commercial success, we harbour dreams of a $5 trillion dollar economy with that kind of money in research.

Welcome to the Marg Advisory Services Blog – Touchstones. 2021 is finally here and as we step through it gingerly, there is fragile hope and an incessant desire for healing.

The definition of a game has been attempted by several intellectuals including Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gamification takes the elements of game mechanics and applies it to non-gaming environments.

Slow fashion and sustainability blend with preserving age old weaving practices in this stirring tale of woman entrepreneurship.

Hatcheries and Aqua Hubs with wholesale auction market and attached pre-processing units will provide a much needed facelift to aquaculture.

The rise of online groceries comes with numerous challenges and opportunities. Learn what can make your online grocery business consistently profitable.

It’s never too late to transform your business. Your market position, profitability & sustainability depend upon how strong a brand you’re today, read the article by Ansuman Mishra designing the Brand Experience right.

In recent times, organisations are realising the importance of having diverse perspectives as a part of their talent pool. Take any industry and any function within, the potential of varied perspectives and dialogue, is immense and can be harnessed to accomplish incredible things. Evolving hiring behaviour, attracting and retaining diverse talent, creating equity of income are challenges ahead of HR. Connect the right dots on organisational diversity.

It’s been a decade since customers started seeking digital transformation. To create a sustainable ecosystem for driving growth in any business, the focus should be on customer experience. Read more about the myths surrounding digital transformation.

Have you ever wondered about the dynamics of the education setup in our country and why our universities lag behind other countries? Can entrepreneurship in this sector transform this? How is such a startup coping with today’s unprecedented crisis?

The business world in recent years is driven by a revolution in technology and communications. Innovation in process and technology, agility in implementation, and flatter organisation structures have also added to the arsenal of available options for smaller organisations to compete with larger organisations.

What are the factors that combine to create a vicious cycle of low productivity, low income, and abject poverty which has given rise to an unprecedented agrarian crisis? How do we get out of this vicious circle?

Reminiscing over the last two decades of trends that disrupted and changed the way Human Resources (HR) worked, my mind narrows it down to changes in technology, advances in telecommunications, and an increasingly young workforce. Let’s briefly touch upon these.

The role that science and technology have played in improving the life conditions across the globe is vivid. Yet our country ignores, underfunds science and research projects. There has been a continuous decline in India’s scientific standing in the last three decades relative to other developing countries. This relative decline in the country’s scientific output can partly be attributed to the very low public and private investment in science and technology.

“You can’t solve problems with the same thinking that created those problems.” -Albert Einstein Perhaps, that’s the reason we need Whole systems thinking.

Social work in India has reduced itself to near inaction. The government and the society need social scientists and not parasites of fictitious poverty. This is a wake-up call and a commentary on a sector that is supposed to support mainstream economy and stand by the country in its hours of crises. Let us get the comatose third sector back to work, because presently the returns are mere shadows of true Gram Swaraj [1] . I would like to draw a parallel between the ‘window of discourse’ and the ‘window of social work’ in India. The Overton window [2] is the name of the window of discourse or the band of ideas around which acceptable public narratives and discourses are construed. The window implies that policymakers desist from venturing into uncharted areas for fear of rejection by the public – their masters. Similarly, social work in India operates within the…

To describe the current phase in human history as unprecedented, is both accurate and inaccurate. In terms of the scale and scope of its physical reach and calamitous consequences, the corona virus pandemic is definitely in a class of its own – and more diabolical than anything yet experienced by the human race, as it, presumably, has opened the door for other such ills to enter. But mankind has witnessed, endured, and survived several catastrophic events in its march through the ages. Varying in nature, extent, and duration, these posed serious threats to the continued existence of human beings on this planet and, to the affected people of the time, would have appeared as apocalyptic as COVID 19 does to many today. In the past, when science and medicine were not advanced enough to swiftly identify, isolate and attack the sources of diseases, epidemics and pandemics were relatively frequent and…