Our experts' work

Case studies.

Project stories from our experts' professional careers — steel project development, people systems for large workforces, and enterprise systems at scale. Every story is drawn from real assignments, with client identities kept confidential.

Steel project development

Purna Chandra Sahu

Building a green steel project

The brief

Steelmaking is under pressure to cut its carbon footprint, and green steel — produced through lower-carbon routes — is where the industry is heading. A project of this kind demands judgment early, when the route, plant configuration and execution plan are still being chosen and mistakes are most expensive.

Our expert's part

Purna Chandra Sahu was associated with building a green steel project, bringing experience in steelmaking and industrial operations to project development. His part drew on a career spent running steel plants: as Executive Director (Works) at SAIL he was responsible for works operations, and as Managing Director of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited he carried full accountability for a steel company — production, plant performance and the commercial decisions behind them.

What it means for you

If you are planning a new steelmaking route, an expansion or a modernisation, this experience applies directly: choosing between blast furnace and other routes, preparing the plant for construction and commissioning, and putting the operating discipline in place so the plant performs from the start.

Green steel · Steelmaking · Project development

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Human resources & hospitality

Shyama Prasad Padhy

Employee rules, rewards & incentives for a large hotel network

The brief

A large, multi-location workforce needs more than goodwill to run well. Service rules decide how people are engaged, assessed and progressed; rewards and incentives decide whether the best people stay. Getting both right for a large hotel network means writing frameworks that work in practice, location after location.

Our expert's part

Shyama Prasad Padhy was associated with preparing and implementing employee service rules and a rewards and incentive framework for a large hotel network — not just drafting documents, but putting them into operation across the network. Before that, as Director (HR) at NALCO, a Government of India enterprise, he led human resources for a large industrial workforce.

What it means for you

If your workforce has grown faster than your people systems — unclear service rules, inconsistent incentives, exits you did not plan for — this expertise applies to you: employee service rules, rewards and incentive design, and HR systems that hold up across sites.

Employee service rules · Rewards & incentives · Large workforces

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Enterprise systems & finance

B. B. Pani

SAP HANA at enterprise scale

The brief

Moving a large company's finances and operations onto SAP HANA is one of the most demanding projects a business can take on: the processes are complex, the stakes are high, and a troubled implementation touches every department at once.

Our expert's part

B. B. Pani was associated with the successful implementation and updation of SAP HANA in a company with an annual turnover exceeding ₹20,000 crore — finance and enterprise processes working at that scale, through the original implementation and the updates that followed. His expertise also covers GST matters, keeping the system aligned with indirect-tax obligations.

What it means for you

If you are selecting, implementing or upgrading SAP, this experience applies to you: oversight from a finance leader who has lived through an enterprise implementation, alignment of business processes with the system, and GST-aware configuration of finance.

SAP HANA · Finance · GST

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