On 19th of November 2013, I started my second stint as an entrepreneur, launching a Consulting firm at the intersection of Business and Technology @ ThinkShop.in.

When I first began sharing my intent with close friends and family, some months ago, the majority of the responses were variants of “I’m doing a very brave thing”, which I came to understand was IndianSpeak for “I must be totally insane to take this step!” That said, if the feedback and comments from wellwishers, friends and family over the past week are anything to go by, I must confess that the encouragement received was totally surprising and makes me believe that I have taken a step in the right direction.

Whichever way you look at it, personally, this is the culmination of a journey that began more than 16 years ago, when I started making career choices that would expose me to a wide variety of skills. I think I have reached a stage in Life when this is the inevitable outcome, rather than a huge leap of faith. In that respect, I feel like I’m wearing the garb of Holmes and forming a logical conclusion, not a gladiator suit to take on the rest of the world!

I’ve spent most of my professional life working across a range of organizations from startups to mid-sized to very large enterprises. I have worked with MNCs and firms with a typical Indian DNA. I have been associated with agencies servicing client needs, and worked on the client side, driving agencies to deliver. I have helped scale up businesses, set up processes, deploy technology and engage with customers. The time has come for me to be able to apply my skills to help a variety of business organizations, instead of restricting it to just one employer.

In 1999, when I first began a small web-consulting outfit, the premise was to bridge the gap between business organizations and programmers/designers who could not internalize business objectives. It turns out that the gap has only grown wider. ‘ThinkShop’ will attempt to bridge that, somewhat.

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