Capabilities

What we help you do

Six advisory areas, organised by the problem you are trying to solve.

Led by Parija Bhise

Talent, Skills & Learning Strategy

The problem. You cannot hire, grow or keep the skills your strategy depends on.

What we do. We design the learning and talent architecture behind capability: what skills you need, how people acquire them, and how your organisation becomes a place the right people want to join.

Skills we bring

  • Skills and role architecture
  • Learning-programme and curriculum design
  • Executive education and corporate training
  • Campus-to-corporate and early-careers pipelines
  • Professional-brand and employability enablement

Typical deliverables: Capability map, learning roadmap, programme design pack

Joint advisory

Capability Centre (GCC) Strategy

The problem. Your India centre delivers, yet is treated as a vendor rather than a strategic partner.

What we do. We help you set up, scale or reposition a global capability centre: purpose, operating model, governance and the talent proposition that holds it together.

Skills we bring

  • Charter, location and entity decisions
  • Target operating model and decision rights
  • Maturity assessment and roadmap
  • Metrics tied to business outcomes
  • Talent retention and career architecture

Typical deliverables: Maturity baseline, operating model, 12-18 month roadmap

Technology advisory

AI Governance & Responsible AI

The problem. AI is entering production faster than policy, ownership and risk controls.

What we do. We build practical governance: inventories, risk registers, model-oversight routines and policy, aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 and applicable regulation. We advise on readiness; certification is issued only by accredited bodies.

Skills we bring

  • AI system inventory and risk classification
  • Management-system design (ISO/IEC 42001 aligned)
  • Model governance and monitoring routines
  • Regulatory mapping (e.g. DPDP, EU AI Act)

Typical deliverables: Gap analysis, governance framework, policy set

Technology advisory

Cloud Economics (FinOps)

The problem. Cloud spend rises, but nobody can link it to what the business gets.

What we do. We make cloud cost legible and accountable: allocation, unit economics and the habits that keep spend aligned to value.

Skills we bring

  • Spend baseline and waste analysis
  • Tagging, allocation and showback design
  • Unit-cost modelling
  • Commitment and purchasing strategy
  • Engineering cost-awareness practices

Typical deliverables: Cost baseline, governance model, executive dashboard spec

Technology advisory

Secure & Reliable Delivery

The problem. Security and speed are traded off instead of designed together.

What we do. We assess and design delivery and security practice: zero-trust principles (NIST SP 800-207), DevSecOps pipelines and delivery metrics that engineers and executives both trust.

Skills we bring

  • Security posture and architecture review
  • Zero-trust roadmap
  • CI/CD and security-in-pipeline design
  • DORA-style delivery metrics
  • Scaled-agile operating routines

Typical deliverables: Assessment report, target architecture, adoption roadmap

Technology advisory

Technology Due Diligence & Fractional Leadership

The problem. You must judge technology risk quickly, or need senior operating capacity without a full-time hire.

What we do. Independent technology assessments for investors and boards, and part-time senior leadership to stabilise or steer a function.

Skills we bring

  • Architecture, security and team assessment
  • Integration feasibility and 100-day priorities
  • Investment-committee summary
  • Fractional operations or technology leadership

Typical deliverables: Due-diligence report, risk rating, 100-day plan

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