Contrary to popular perception, CX automation is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, consumer mass deployment of the discipline dates back at least two decades. Record scrutiny and archival research should clear the air on which industry: Telecom or Banking was the first, in the Indian market to go the automation route. Pieces of empirical…
Category: Digital Transformation
Ways to make Digital Transformation, happen!
5 step change framework for BPOs and product Ideas!
In the last article, I argued how the winds within the wings of traditional phone-based BPOs are being stolen by cheap, easy, and widely available automation alternatives. I also propounded that weakening prospects of the BPO industry do not necessarily mean a reduction in the overall scope of outsourcing as a business decision. There is…
Remote work and urban planning!
(Note: The changes that we speak of in this article is expected to happen in the course of the next 10 years!) Workplace of the future (a part of which is already visible) is no longer going to be a ‘physical space‘ but a ‘network‘ that enables the staff to connect with the resources needed…
Bets on the Future!
As of 20th June 2020, reported and recognised COVID19 figures by the GOI, are 4,11,773 infections, 13,281 fatalities. To put things in perspective, we’re adding on an average over 13K cases, every day, for past few days, we’re 3rd largest in daily caseload increase, 4th largest in the overall volume of cases in the world…
Co-existing with COVID19!
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे (Gopaldas, ’Neeraj’) Yes the Virus is here, yes it is highly contagious and yes it is deadly! So what do we do? Fight, Freeze, or Flee? I’m afraid to inform you ‘Fleeing’ is not an option. You gotta either confront the virus or hibernate into oblivion, perhaps…
Future Outlook: Indian BPO Industry
The article “Outsourcing 2.0, the future”, that I wrote on 24th of Feb 2019, has been generating a lot of interest in the BPO industry as a result of which my inbox is full of requests for a write up addressing the specifics of the Indian BPO/BPM industry, so here I am! I’ll link the…
Impediments to change
You won’t find very many disagreeing with the universality of the statement – “Change is the only constant and, yet, there is only a handful changing for real. How can a virtue which has such paramount acceptance have such abysmal application? Well, for starters, let’s just say, all of us have lied at some point…
Decluttering : WorkPlace of the future!
I have to admit this, I was tempted to begin this write up with dictionary definition of ‘modern workplace’, a cup of tea and a few biscuits later, I did overcome the juvenile urge. And decided to define it the way I understand it. There isn’t a scientific definition to tell the accurate comprehension from…
In your lane!
Far too many of us are living our lives fighting for scarp : winning that one argument, that one person, that one promotion, that one posting, that one moment – with little or no active awareness of the fact that ‘time’ is running out, this moment is just gone … just like that, not to…
Transform digitally, NOW!
Digital transformation or digitization is right at the very top of business agenda today. All organization big and small, born in the new age or from yesterday’s years are all queuing up to set the record straight for their own good and for the well being of their customers. Well, there are also some who…