Find your next source of growth
“Our existing business is working harder for less.”
Identify where demand and value are moving, choose the opportunities worth pursuing and define how your business can earn from them.
BUSINESS STRATEGY & OPERATING LEADERSHIP
Decide what’s next for your business.
Make it happen.
WHERE WE HELP
Start with the decision
in front of you.
Turn existing strengths into a new business
“We have valuable capabilities. What else could we build with them?”
Combine your expertise, customer relationships, content, data or distribution with the right partners and technologies to create a new offering or revenue stream.
Take an opportunity to market
“We see the opportunity. We need a way to make it work.”
Define the customer proposition, revenue model and route to market. Decide what to build, buy or partner on, then launch with clear priorities.
Make AI deliver business value
“We need to know where AI will improve our economics.”
Identify where AI can increase revenue, improve margins or strengthen service delivery, and redesign the work required to realise that value.
Bring leadership to execution
“We need someone experienced to carry this through.”
Add senior operating leadership to align people, make decisions and keep execution moving against agreed commercial milestones.
ADVISORY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE BUSINESS
We advise the leader.
The business changes.
We work directly with the people who own the decision and are ready to act on it.
The leaders
Promoters and founders of growing businesses. CEOs and business heads of established companies. Boards weighing a major change.
The decisions
A new revenue line or business model. A new market or offering. A turnaround or reset. An AI investment that needs to deliver business value.
The fit
A consequential decision, leadership access to act on it and a clear opportunity for us to make a measurable difference.
HOW WE WORK
Define. Build. Operate.
Engage us on a specific decision or work with us from diagnosis through execution.
Make the right decision.
What needs to change, and where should we invest?
Identify the real constraint, assess growth opportunities and compare the choices. Clarify the business model, commercial potential and assumptions that need testing.
WHAT YOU GETA clear diagnosis · Prioritised options · A recommended next move
Turn the choice into a business.
How will this work, earn and reach customers?
Design the proposition, revenue model and partnerships. Decide what to build, buy or access, develop the route to market and connect capital requirements to launch milestones.
WHAT YOU GETBusiness and ecosystem design · Build-buy-partner plan · GTM and capital readiness
Carry it through.
Who will align the team and make it happen?
Provide hands-on operating leadership, align the people responsible and support execution. Track progress against agreed commercial milestones and adjust as evidence emerges.
WHAT YOU GETNamed owners · Operating priorities · Measurable milestones · Leadership support
Every stage is tested through four questions about whether the business model can work.
Value
Where is value being created, lost or shifting?
Participation
Who benefits, who pays and who makes adoption happen?
Advantage
What gives you the right to win?
Execution
Which capabilities, partners and capital make it work?
BUSINESS RE-IMAGINATION AS A SERVICE
What could your business become?
Reimagine what your business can become. Recompose what you already have to get there.
We help leadership teams rethink where they compete, the value they create and how they capture it. We translate that thinking into business models, partnership structures and a practical path to execution.
Capabilities that once supported your business can become businesses in their own right.
BUSINESS RE-COMPOSING
Your next business may already be inside this one.
Customer relationships, expertise, content, data, technology and distribution can create new value when combined differently. We connect those strengths with complementary capabilities and partners to build something customers will pay for.
- Turn internal expertise into a paid service.
- Combine content, community and commerce.
- Connect customers, suppliers and partners through a shared platform.
- Use AI to change how services are delivered, priced and scaled.
- Build recurring revenue around an existing product or relationship.
What you take away: Prioritised growth opportunities, a defined business model, the capabilities and partnerships required, and a staged roadmap to test, launch and scale while protecting the business that funds your future.
WHAT DILIP BRINGS TO THE TABLE
The judgment to connect the whole business.
A consequential business decision rarely belongs to one function. It changes what you offer, how you deliver it, who needs to participate and how the business earns.
Dilip brings experience across those decisions, combining leadership of established businesses with the experience of building a venture.
That perspective connects strategy, product, technology, AI, innovation, marketing and monetisation with the people, capital and operating choices needed to make the business work.
His involvement can range from advisory on a specific decision to embedded leadership through execution, with clear responsibilities and milestones.
N. Dilip Venkatraman
FOUNDER, INDUSTRY CENTRICITY
Former CEO of CNN-IBN and IBN7 · Former Global Head of Media & Entertainment, Tech Mahindra · Founder, VideoTap · Seven US patents · Harvard Business School, Advanced Management Program, 2010
Connect on LinkedInExperience and credentials reflect Dilip’s career across prior roles and ventures.
WAYS TO WORK WITH US
Start with one decision.
Go as far as you need.
A complimentary 20-minute conversation establishes fit. Together, we then agree the right scope.
Explore the engagement details and fees before requesting a conversation. The introduction carries no obligation; detailed analysis and recommendations begin in a paid engagement.
Decision SessionOne clearly defined decision that needs your attention.Scope & fee
We review the context you share in advance, then work through the options, risks and recommended next move in a 90-minute working session. You receive a written summary of the recommendation and next steps.
Professional fee: US$3,000
Leadership AdvisoryA senior sounding board through a significant change.Scope & fee
Two 90-minute working sessions each month, review of agreed documents and support between sessions within an agreed scope. An ongoing relationship with someone who understands your business and the decisions ahead.
Professional fee: US$7,500 per month
Minimum commitment: three months. Total minimum fee: US$22,500.
Growth Opportunity DiagnosticDeeper investigation into where your next growth can come from.Scope & fee
An industry opportunity map, an assessment of the assets you can build on, prioritised growth options and a recommended first move, with milestones, owners and assumptions to test.
Individually scoped. Deliverables, timing and a fixed engagement fee are agreed before work begins.
Fractional Operating LeadershipExperienced leadership to carry the work into execution.Scope & fee
Dilip works as a fractional or interim CEO, COO or Chief Growth Officer through a launch, transformation, turnaround, new business line or leadership transition.
Individually scoped. Time commitment, responsibilities, authority and fees are agreed before the engagement starts.
Professional fees exclude applicable taxes. Billing currency and the total amount payable are confirmed in the written proposal.
01 Share the decision02 Have a free fit conversation03 Agree scope and fees
THE INDUSTRY CENTRICITY SERIES
Insights & Articles.
Perspectives by N. Dilip Venkatraman on the structural challenges shaping industries, and the business opportunities they reveal.
STREAMING: DISCOVERY, MONETIZATION & INTENTTHREE-PART SERIES
INDUSTRY-CENTRICITY SERIES01
Discovery & content intelligence
The Discovery Gap in Streaming: Why Content Scale Is No Longer the Problem
Why a growing content catalogue can still leave viewers struggling to find something to watch, and why discovery needs to be designed as an integrated system.
PDF · 3 pages · 302 KB
INDUSTRY-CENTRICITY SERIES02
Engagement & monetization
Discovery Failure in Streaming: The Hidden Problem in Monetization
How poor discovery reduces monetizable attention, and why content understanding, recommendations and presentation need to work together.
PDF · 3 pages · 304 KB
INDUSTRY-CENTRICITY SERIES03
Real-time intent & recommendations
The Intent Gap: Why Streaming Recommendations Still Run on Yesterday’s Data
Why historical profiles can miss what a viewer wants in the moment, and how live session signals can inform more adaptive discovery decisions.
PDF · 3 pages · 302 KB
LET’S TALK
What decision is
facing your business?
Start with a complimentary 20-minute conversation to assess fit and agree the right way to work together.
Tell us about your business, the decision ahead and your timeline. We’ll review the context and get in touch to arrange an introduction if there is a fit.
You can review engagement details and fees before reaching out. There is no commitment to a paid engagement at this stage.
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