Leveraging Ecosystem for Exponential Growth by Mr. Ashish Lapalikar

Just as in nature’s ecosystems, a business ecosystem functions with all components interacting together for individual and collective benefits. For businesses to operate in an ecosystem, they need to know where they fit, how they add value, and ultimately how they will benefit in a win-win environment that proves sustainable. Now more than ever, with a climate of continual business transformation, companies are looking at how they can leverage ecosystems to continue to grow.

About the Speaker:

Ashish Lapalikar heads a consulting unit at TCS Japan. He has spent more than a decade and a half in the Business & IT Consulting industry. He worked for a large industrial manufacturing group in India for six years before his career in consulting. He has worked across different geographies including North America, the UK, and Japan, and brings in rich experience having worked with a diverse set of industries and cultures. In his current role, he helps large Japanese firms to realize their strategic digital transformation initiatives. He also consults B2B enterprises in their Business 4.0 journey closely working with C-level executives in drawing up strategic vision. During his current tenure, he has worked with several large names in Japan. Ashish is a certified Top-Down Thinking trainer and Design Thinking practitioner and is passionate about ecosystem thinking.