siliconindia | | December 20194 Consultants of Wholesome Industries Irrespective of the focus being strategy, operations, tax, finance, HR, or IT, business consultants are a staple of corporate life. Today, over 700,000 consulting firms provide services across virtually all aspects of business globally. From defining strategic direction to simply serving as an additional pair of hands for outsourced work, consultants have become inextricably linked to the success of most large organizations. However, if we see it geographically, over 71 percent of the Earth's surface covered by water and oceans holding over 96 percent of all the water on earth. Thus, the nature of maritime consulting tends to a truly international profession. The maritime industry has always played an important role in economic success, with maritime consultants providing the expertise to suggest better trade routes and shipping ports. These consultants play a vital role in the development of marine construction projects such as shipyards, ports, terminals and jetty's. In recent years there has been an increased focus to improve performance, energy efficiency and environmental standards. Today's marine consultants must face the growing concerns to improve air and water quality, providing innovative, smart solutions for the future of the maritime sector.Solar projects differ from standard construction projects or product purchases (like HVAC, Lighting etc) because there is a very important angle of performance ­ linked to a payback and profitability. The dependence is on the environment and regular maintenance and it requires knowledge of the same. A solar project is a long-term commitment by an end user who puts faith in the technology, the contractor, the financial model and the government. It certainly is not the core business of the end users and it demands good due diligence. Regardless of if you are paying for the solar plant or leasing it, the risks remain in terms of its performance and simulations matching the expectations in reality. This clearly a margin calls for consultants to give that assurance. This edition focuses on those consultants that have made an impact in these two mega industries. Do let us know your opinion.Chitra MishraSpecial Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialsiliconindia Vol 08 · Issue 5 - 15 · December - 2019 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Special Editor Chitra Mishra Editorial Team Ananth.V Shiwani Prakash John Roshan Anto Srrayvinya OLM Swaroop KP Sujith Vasudevan Vaishnavi Pradeep VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2019 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Manjunath S Sivasankar Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoida Ashu Sethi Garima AnandCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Anupreethi Danila Mukesh Babu K Nagendra Kumar Sambit Satpathy
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