Yes indeed, these are exciting times. We are inching towards a fully digitalised world, all thanks to the rapid advancement in technology.  But this comes with its own set of challenges that confront every part of the society and business is no exception. Businesses have had to evolve strategies and embrace new technologies to keep pace with this rapid transformation be it the increasing use of AI  and automation for a variety of purposes,  the use of various software, 3 D printing, collaborative consumption etc. What is the issue ? But one issue that continues to remain steadfastly in the current fast moving digital era, is the issue of talent sharing across domains. Even as the employment landscape and norms are changing with the emergence of the gig economy and businesses themselves are resorting to the contractual method of work on an increasing scale it is pertinent to ask how fair is it to restrict the natural flow of talent possessed by profe...

A leader who thinks and brings his thoughts to reality impacting several people to learn, inspire, create with his innovative ideas, while demonstrating change and replicating success, at a larger scale comes under Thought Leadership. Such people bring about a radical shift in innovation [1] , design and vision by affecting industries and also entire ecosystems. They revolutionize their surroundings to such a large extent, simply by what they do, that they automatically enroll more and more people to join in their efforts. Thought Leaders are learned and informed people, sometimes with years of research and knowledge under their belt as well as experts in their domain. Their stories are covered widely, contributing to the success they are today. By de facto standards, one looks-up to successful people. It is but natural for human beings to ‘Follow the Leader’ but more so, as it is ingrained in our psyche through several systems such as education, psychology, business modalities, semi...

The air was ripe with the fruity flavours of pomegranates and berries, while the sturdy mountains of Teheran were still capped with snowflakes. The flamboyant and modernist ruler of Persia, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi suddenly fled his vast kingdom in the face of emerging opposition from the conservative Islamic cleric Ayatollah Khomeini. Shah’s escape overseas marked the end of 2, 500 years of Persian monarchy in Iran and the beginning of hard-line Islam, and a revolution that was to plunge the nation into the throes of chaos and unrest. Why did the mighty Shah flee so suddenly like a deer encountering a hungry lion? Perhaps he had predicted the tumult his country would undergo thereafter…Perhaps he had gauged his declining popularity…Perhaps he knew he could do nothing to stop the spread of hard-line Islam and that of the Ayatollah. Was it his intuition? Or premonition? Or a vague hint about the conspiracy that was to transpire? Fast-forward 41 years and the winter months of...

The concept that’s working hard around the work is all about not working hard! For simple understanding it goes by the name of gig! So why is gig rocking? People step out of the confines of stable jobs for the same reason why they jump of planes and hurtle through thin air strapped to parachutes! Its bloody exciting: as you surge through vast open spaces, air rushing past your stretched skin, your mind pushes possibilities to unimaginable limits. Its freedom to think, live, perform as you please with no barriers. It’s like an exhilarating trapeze act, swinging from one hoop to another, each taking you to a new high-- risky but protected by a safety net. People are kicking full time jobs and embracing gig because they hate being handcuffed by office rules or spending fixed hours in glass enclosures. It’s a concept that takes work out of the stuffy boxes of employment and liberates the sort of animal spirits that are disrupting businesses and rewriting rules everywhere. ...

Our life has transformed as we transition from an analogue to a digital world. We are connected 24*7 through technology. Apart from connected devices, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), our world seems digitized in more ways than one. Our workplace has transmuted due to the impact of digitization. The business planning cycles have shrunk from years to months and now weeks. The workplace has transformed into spending more time with laptops and gadgets rather than people working in the same office. Business models are being disturbed. Technology like AI, data analytics and cloud computing are changing the way we think and respond to our customers. The response time has drastically reduced and the definition of competition has changed. What is impossible today becomes a reality tomorrow. Our customers and competitors are getting redefined after the revolutionary digitization. The use of Artificial Intelligence was thought of as a marketing technology tha...

www.outsourcedcmo.in The only success metric for a company is the number of revenue paying customers , If there are millions of social followers but they do not convert into paying customers or repeat customers than what's the point. Focusing on getting more social media followers is like directing your energies in getting window shoppers for retail outlet who will come but will not transact . Once you have decent number of revenue paying customer than getting social followers would be very very easy or i would say that they will come automatically

What is the common thread that runs between Airbnb, Uber and Ola?  Well! All of them are shining examples of a shared economy which is based on access not on ownership.  Shared economy is an idea whose time has come, driven by the internet revolution, the paucity of a resource vis a vis demand, high cost of a resource and digital economy which enables sharing of a highly coveted resource at an affordable cost that makes such sharing beneficial for all related parties . It is not that shared economy deals with only the physical resources but it has been playing an important part in sharing of human resources too in the business domain. Looking at various C-suite expertise around the world we find that companies have been successfully sharing expert human resources for a long time. Outsourced Chief Training  Officers (CTOs)  have been in vogue for decades now. Businesses are also comfortable with the idea of working with outsourced Chief Financial ...

Startups by their very nature are young and restless as they have big dreams in their eyes supplemented by zeal, determination and never say die attitude. In their youthful enthusiasm, many a times they plunge into ‘doing’ an activity without the requisite planning and attention to details. They fail to prepare adequately for the consequences of their actions often with disastrous results.  Thus to achieve their aims they must temper their youthful energy with oodles of experience to strike the right balance as teams like Chennai Super Kings have done by opting to rope in their star performer MS Dhoni and veteran spinner Harbhajan Singh. This is despite the fact that T20 is said to be a game for the young.  Why have they done so? Because they realize the importance of experience and leadership to the success of the team. And we at Outsourced CMO are in the business of providing the right kind of leadership and motivation to your teams to strike gold....