Client Profile: iPRIMED partnered with a high-end clothing brand headquartered in Switzerland. The brand had an existing Shopify website, but it was outdated and lacked strong SEO, hindering its online presence. The website wasn’t connected to analytics tools and needed improvements to manage product information in both English and German. Challenges: The primary challenges included…
Introduction: In today’s competitive landscape, staying ahead of the curve requires constant innovation. This is especially true for established manufacturers, who may grapple with legacy processes that hinder their ability to adapt and evolve. The client, a leading UK-based manufacturer of spectroscopy accessories with a five-decade history, faced this very challenge. Their product development process,…
Introduction In today’s fast-paced business environment, delivering effective training to a distributed workforce is crucial for success. Our client, a leading provider of various technology products, faced a challenge with their traditional training methods. Their reliance on in-person trainers and manual content management was hindering scalability and efficiency. iPRIMED, a trusted IT solutions provider, partnered…
Introduction This case study examines how iPRIMED, a provider of remote financial and data services, leveraged a strategic partnership with a rising FinTech firm to significantly enhance their tax-filing services. Client Overview The client is a well-established FinTech firm with over 12 years of experience. Headquartered in Germany, the firm has its presence in Switzerland,…
The world of work is changing faster than ever before. Technology, automation, globalization, and social trends are reshaping the way we work, learn, and collaborate. The skills that were in demand yesterday may not be relevant tomorrow. How can you ensure that your workforce is ready for the future? The answer is simple: by investing…
If you are like most organizations, you probably have some form of compliance training in place. Compliance training is important and necessary, but it is not sufficient to build an ethical and sustainable workforce. Compliance training alone has several limitations that prevent it from fostering a culture of responsibility and resilience in your organization. The…
Have you ever wondered how some businesses manage to complete complex projects in a short span of time, without hiring full-time employees or spending a fortune on recruitment? The answer lies in the gig economy, a growing phenomenon that is transforming the way work is done. The Rise of the Gig Economy The gig economy…
Do you remember the days when you could get a degree, land a job, and work your way up the ladder without much hassle? When the skills you learned in college or university were enough to last you a lifetime? When the world of work was relatively stable and predictable? However, this model is no…
The traditional resume-centric hiring process is not only tedious and time-consuming, but also ineffective and inefficient. Moreover, they are prone to human errors and biases, such as favouring candidates with certain names, backgrounds, or credentials. In recent years, many organizations have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms to automate and optimize their hiring process….
The shortage of tech talent is all pervasive and doesn’t seem to go away! And, the worst part is that there doesn’t seem to be a systemic solution in sight. Why is this happening? Let’s go back to the fundamentals and look at the “Cause – Effect – Response” cycle. Let’s start with the “cause” side. Why…
Does an AWS certification guarantee a better future? When it comes to analysing the worth of an education or a certification, one of the strongest determining parameters is the extent to which the education guarantees financial security. Salary boost, overall employability, career paths, growth opportunities, etc are some of the main factors that help determine…
How AWS trumps over its competitors Market DominationDespite its competitors being as powerful and aggressive in their business growth strategies, AWS trumps all when it comes to their respective market shares in the ever-growing cloud industry. As of May 2021, Canalys, another market forecast leader, reported that of the $41.8B worth cloud industry, Amazon continued…
What is AWS? Definition for the non-IT person AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and is one of the world’s most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platforms. What does that mean? Every company or business, irrespective of its scale, needs to run a website or an E-commerce platform. The usual traffic on these cannot be…
The Future of Cloud Computing So what all is included when we say ‘cloud computing’? Well, anything and everything remotely linked with managing, operating and maintaining the cloud! This includes all Internet-based services, infrastructure and development related activities, right from site management, data security to data analytics, server monitoring and management of large quantities of…
In April 2020, the unemployment rate in India hit an all-time high of 7.11%. The pandemic had diverse effects on almost all industries across all sectors. One of the most impacted strata have been the freshly graduated youngsters, unemployment rates in their case soaring up to 34.11% in June 2021. Securing a job has never…
As the world faces the transformative economic, social and environmental challenges of Globalization 4.0, it has never been more important to invest in people. Technology & automation today, is rewriting the employer- employee relationship. Across the globe, tech talent is in short supply. The pandemic has accelerated Digitization across industries which has further increased the…
Did you know that learning to code can be fun? Learning Coding doesn’t have to be boring. Just the reverse, it can be a lot of fun. Generally Coding begins with drag-and-drop visual programming in which kids learn to connect blocks together to make a program. Visual programming edify the primary concepts without typing or…
The COVID crisis has forced us to think hard of the hidden “VIRTUAL” element in every single activity of ours – no matter how big or small! Whether it’s a complex business scenario or a simple grocery delivery transaction, we are amazed to see how even the minutest things have gone online within a span…
Did the world ever imagine a time (so close), which would change the shape of entire economy? Entire humanity? “Pandemic” only used to be a short “last” chapter of our courses which was generally meant for skipping for most of us! Who knew this chapter of our course will become a reality one day!! Obviously,…
One of the impediments to achieving Agility is the lack of an objective way of measuring L&D Agility. And we all know, that what can’t be measured can’t be improved! So, here you go – we have created an Agility Index to help L&D ( or for that matter any organisation that has to create…
Content is embedded in every business process and in every industry! What may vary is the relevance/impact it has on the execution of the business process. Over the last decade or so, the degree of digitisation of content has increased significantly and it seems to be the way to go. This is good news as…
Deja Vu times! Reminds me of the IT era, pre Agile! Throughout the 80s and 90s, IT’s slow pace was always an enigma for the business folks. Business couldn’t comprehend why getting anything done on the It side took so much time and as tech became more and more important, something had to be done…
All working professionals, in their careers, would have undergone some kind of compliance training or the other. I won’t be wrong in making this assertion, will I? And most of these training run as eLearning, where learners learn in a self-paced mode. So, what’s the imagery most of us carry when the words “Compliance Training”…
eLearning or Digital Learning has started to gain traction. Completely self-paced eLearning is yet to take off. There are ample variations of the blended/hybrid model – each claiming to be better than the others! These are good signs. Signs of evolution! What’s also evolving, albeit not as rapidly, is eLearning Content services (eLCS) eLCS manages the…
Thomas Kuhn, in his path breaking book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)” showed that it takes about 30 years for a new scientific theory to become a new paradigm! Peter Drucker talked about a similar lead time for “new knowledge” to become “knowledge based innovation! Now, eLearning, which definitely fits into the knowledge/scientific theory…
You need skill to work efficiently and effectively. Skill has relevance only in the context of work/task and by itself has little/no meaning. So, any skilling initiative should be tied to a job and should equip the trainee well enough to help them land the job that they were skilled for – makes sense, right?…
That’s the good news! However, the bad news is that most don’t understand it well enough to ensure that the model delivers outputs at scale with consistency, repeatability and predictability! Why is this good news? If executed the right way, it addresses the needs of all stakeholders and results in a win win for all:…
SkillTech is nothing but “Tech that enables skill acquisition, measurement, retention and continuous improvement digitally”. The key word is “digitally”.. This is different from EdTech which primarily focuses on Tech that enables “Knowledge” acquisition via impacting the “Core” learning process or impacting the “Enablers”. As compared to EdTech, SkillTech focuses more
I remember my teenage years – it was spent cramming up textbooks and spending sleepless nights. I sacrificed play, entertainment, social outings – virtually everything to score some extra marks in exams. Today a decade after I finished my schooling, nothing has changed. Kids, teenagers – everyone who is in the proper formal education system…
Most of my friends on the business side who have employed a campus hire from IIMs complain of the mismatch between the expectation and actual performance of the recent hire. A typical, IIM graduate thinks they know it all and doesn’t want to get in the trenches and get their hands dirty. Their expectation is…