KRISS ConsultingIsh SachdevaBusiness Transformation Consultant
Ish Sachdeva

Ish Sachdeva · Business Transformation Consultant

Twenty years inside complex change changes how you see a business.

Different industries. Different countries. Different challenges. But many of the questions underneath them have been remarkably similar.

For more than two decades, I’ve worked where those questions meet execution. Not observing change from the outside. Leading it.

20+
years leading complex change
150
maximum multidisciplinary team size
$1M+
average portfolio value managed
3
continents of delivery experience
India · Europe · USA

The business questions that endure

The setting changes.
The questions connect.

  • How do we improve the economics?
  • How do we get more from existing capacity?
  • Why does work take longer than it should?
  • How should people and responsibilities be organised?
  • What must change as the business grows?
  • What internal problem is the customer feeling?
  • Where will technology help — and where won’t it?

Career context

Experience built inside serious businesses.

These are selected end-client environments across my career. They are not presented as clients of my current independent consulting practice.

  • HDFC
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Stanley Black & Decker
  • Caterpillar
  • Vyaire
  • Capsa
  • Sunset Grown
  • Veoneer
  • Williams Sonoma
  • NXP Semiconductors
  • RBS
  • P&G

Different environments.
A wider perspective.

  • Manufacturing
  • Medical Devices
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Telecom
  • Retail
  • Semiconductors
  • Food Manufacturing

From intent to execution

The projects changed.
The responsibility didn’t.

That’s the experience I now bring to Business Transformation Consulting.

  1. 01Understand what had to happen.
  2. 02Bring different functions together.
  3. 03Work through competing priorities and dependencies.
  4. 04Decide what needed changing.
  5. 05Put structure around execution.
  6. 06Bring in the right expertise.
  7. 07Keep people aligned.
  8. 08Stay accountable while the change became real.

Selected transformation experience

What changed matters more
than the project label.

10%gross-margin improvement

30%project-cost reduction

Change the economics of delivery.

Resource deployment, vendor use and the delivery model were brought together to improve margin and project costs.

See what changed in delivery

25%

Productivity through better workflow.

Redesign the process first. Use automation where it removes effort from the new way of working.

Follow the workflow story

Keep the business working
while it changes.

Multidisciplinary teams of up to 150 people. Cross-country transitions, restructuring and coordination across functions and leadership layers.

Explore leadership through change

Selected outcomes and responsibilities from my career. Each engagement has its own context; these are not forecasts for another business.

For established businesses in India

Significant experience.
Practical enough to stay involved.

Large organisations can bring in specialist teams for every problem. Established owner-led businesses often don’t need that machinery.

They need someone experienced enough to look across the business, independent enough not to arrive selling a predetermined solution, and practical enough to stay involved when recommendations become reality.

That is the focus of my independent practice: bringing two decades of complex transformation experience to businesses whose next improvement needs more than another workaround.

See my approach

Find what matters.
Understand why.
Fix what is worth fixing.
Own the change.

Business outcomes matter. Technology is one vehicle. I connect people, process, technology and performance — and stay focused on the change the business needs.

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Let’s start a conversation

What in your business has reached the point where it needs to change?

Bring me one thing that isn't working as well as it should. A result that's slipping, a problem that keeps returning or something the business has outgrown. You don't need to know the cause or the answer before we speak.

01I have a problem02I want a better outcome03I’m not sure where to start
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In 30 minutes, we can explore what’s happening, what may be driving it and what deserves closer attention. A starting point, not a complete diagnosis or a commitment to a larger engagement.