Thought Leadership

Perspectives
& Insights

Practitioner perspectives on the issues that matter - India's infrastructure agenda, enterprise technology transformation, regulatory change, and the evolving landscape of public sector advisory.

Government Advisory
India's Rs 111 Lakh Crore Infrastructure Pipeline: Why DPR Quality is the Weakest Link
India is committing historic levels of capital to infrastructure. But Detailed Project Reports - the documents that determine whether that capital is well spent - remain chronically underprepared. We examine what poor DPR quality costs and what good looks like.
9 min read June 2026
Technology / Oracle ERP
Oracle EBS to Fusion: The Migration Risks Most Organisations Underestimate
The move from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Fusion is one of the most complex ERP programmes an organisation can undertake. Six risk areas that separate successful migrations from costly failures.
7 min read May 2026
Regulation / Cybersecurity
India's DPDP Act 2023: What Organisations Must Do Before the Rules Land
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act is law. The rules are coming. Organisations that wait for the final text before acting will find themselves behind. A practitioner's guide to getting ready now.
8 min read April 2026
Strategy
Succession Without Succession Planning: The Risk Hiding in Plain Sight at India's Family Businesses
Most Indian promoter families know succession is coming. Few have planned for it. The consequences - strategic drift, governance failures, and value destruction - are avoidable with early, structured intervention.
6 min read March 2026
Operations
Building Supply Chain Resilience Without Sacrificing Efficiency: A Post-Pandemic Reset
The pandemic exposed the fragility of lean, just-in-time supply chains. Three years on, most organisations have not yet resolved the tension between resilience and cost. A framework for doing both.
6 min read February 2026
Technology / AI
Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Beyond the Chatbot and Into the Workflow
Agentic AI - systems that plan, decide, and act autonomously across multi-step workflows - represents a genuine step-change in what AI can do for business. What leaders need to understand before deploying it.
7 min read January 2026
People & HR
Why Most HR Transformation Programmes Fail to Deliver and What to Do Instead
HR functions spend years on transformation and still end up with the same reactive, transactional service. The problem is not the design - it's the sequencing. A different starting point produces very different results.
5 min read December 2025
Government / Procurement
GeM at Scale: How Government Buyers Can Capture More Value From India's Public Procurement Portal
Government e-Marketplace has crossed Rs 4 lakh crore in orders. Yet most buying organisations are only using a fraction of its capability. A practical guide to getting more from GeM.
5 min read November 2025
People & HR
Measuring Training ROI: How to Move Beyond Smile Sheets and Learning Hours
Most organisations measure training by throughput - how many people attended, how many hours were logged. These metrics have almost no relationship to business performance. The Kirkpatrick model, applied seriously, changes that.
6 min read October 2025