The team put together a set of FAQs that we encountered during client meetings.
Hope to clarify what we sometimes fumbled during the meetings — yes, we too fumbled when we were asked questions we have not thought about before. Yes, client pitches take practice.
Here we go.
What is Kotak Sakti?
Kotak Sakti is a team that focuses on data science and advanced analytics projects. We provide technical staffing and work with boutique consultants to deliver applied data science insights, machine learning solutions and more. We also assist our clients in developing their internal analytical capabilities.
At Kotak Sakti, we always look for capable talents who can solve our clients' toughest problems. We continuously work with clients to identify high-impact business opportunities and realize them by leveraging machine learning, scoping impactful projects, and handpicking effective teammates.
Launched in 2020, Kotak Sakti is based in Kuala Lumpur.
What makes Kotak Sakti different?
Traditionally, strategic management consulting is centered on delivering insights and recommendations. Recently, however, the industry has gravitated more towards implementation and execution. Through numerous client interactions, we discover that there is a niche group of clients who are looking for increased support in digital and advanced analytics work. Kotak Sakti fills in that gap.
Kotak Sakti employs design thinking to develop innovative and data-centered solutions that not only drives real value for clients but are fairly 'plug and play' products that fits easily with clients' existing technology and data analytics tech stacks.
More importantly, clients will have access to technologists that can turn the data into insights.
Why was Kotak Sakti launched?
There are three key demands that we see in this space:
#1 - Implementation: Clients are looking for teams that can implement proposed recommendations. Why spend resources on implementing the recommendations and later face resource and capability constraints?
#2 - Digital infrastructure: A lot of the implementation efforts are delivered through technology solutions.
#3 - Data: As companies and operations move into the digital space, a lot of data are generated from sensors, human-input data sheets and multi-formatted.
Kotak Sakti sits auspiciously at the intersection of data, strategy and tech-enabled implementation work.
Kotak Sakti example project
Imagine an urban rejuvenation advisory client who has a database of GIS polygon data in a certain part of a city, its building approvals, historical known ownerships, newspaper articles, and historical rental prices. The datasets are scattered in various formats, which makes deriving insights highly challenging.
Rather than having the client struggling to execute it on its own, Kotak Sakti is able to help define the required technology, staff an initial team of engineers and designers to work with the data, build a unified database, construct the UI and, finally, launch it for consumers.
As one can imagine, Kotak Sakti often coordinates with management consultants and clients’ strategy departments to solve problems. Yet, in many cases, a client may come directly to Kotak Sakti with specific technology challenges.
As an example, Kotak Sakti works with a Fortune 500 company to digitalize its operation data; with an energy company to analyze hundreds of accounts to identify new-energy business opportunities; and with a conglomerate to design a digital corporation that can harness data from its subsidiaries in the retail industry.
In some cases, Kotak Sakti is also called in to help bounce ideas with clients' internal analytics team.
How does Kotak Sakti manage end-to-end analytics projects?
We believe that as technology progresses, we need deeper expertise to solve more complex problems. Kotak Sakti responds to this reality by working with various startups and individual machine learning experts in related fields, such as instruments and hardware, data collections and data engineering.
How to work with Kotak Sakti?
#1 - As a consultant team: Clients engage our team as consultants to work on specific data analytics projects. We will first seek to understand the business goals, problems, stakeholders, end-users, and data availability before deep diving into problem solving, model and solution building.
#2 - As a resource team: Clients or boutique consultants have clear ideas and implementation strategy but needs additional team members to execute the analytics or machine learning work.
How to contact Kotak Sakti?
Please email us at erhan@kotaksakti.com or reez@kotaksakti.com. You can also visit www.kotaksakti.com
We are open for online discussions for clients residing outside of Kuala Lumpur.