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Early in my career, before I was running consulting engagements, I worked as part of an internal development team building an ERP system for a jewelry manufacturing operation in California. It’s an industry most software vendors have genuinely never thought…
A client once told me, half-joking, that their previous bookkeeping setup consisted of “three spreadsheets, a shoebox of receipts, and hoping the accountant remembered what happened in March.” That’s more common than most business owners would admit publicly, and it’s…
Before I was building websites, training IT professionals, or running technology consulting engagements, I spent several years as a Global Lead Analyst at a Brussels-based responsible business consulting firm — sitting in rooms (and later, video calls) with experienced consultants…
Last Updated: July 2026 Every few weeks, someone on a client’s leadership team asks me a version of the same question, usually right after they’ve read a LinkedIn post from someone insisting their tool is “the one that changed everything.”…
I want to start with a conversation I’ve had, in one form or another, with probably a dozen small business owners over the past couple of years. It usually goes something like this: “Our books are a mess, we need…
Hello Readers, In this article I want to walk you through one of the more satisfying engagements I’ve worked on in the last couple of years — not because it involved some dramatic technology overhaul, but because it involved almost…
Introduction Hi, I’m Ankit Srivastava — a Digital Marketing Consultant, AI Educator, and IT Consultant with over 10 years of experience helping U.S. businesses build data systems that leadership can actually trust and act on. In nearly every consulting engagement…
For the past 10+ years, I’ve helped businesses figure out how to actually use technology and data — not just adopt it. And over the last few years, I’ve watched the conversation with U.S. business leaders change completely. It used…
Working with B2B companies across the U.S., I keep seeing the same problem play out. It’s never a data shortage. It’s a decision-making shortage. Most businesses are sitting on more data than they know what to do with — and…
