ABCSK Services is a startup and new initiative of Ms. Chitra Singaraju, with the aim to providing advisory services in the domains of Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Finance and Economics. While working in Industry she experienced a need for bridging the gap between Industry and Academics. Companies today are facing dynamic challenges in various walks of their businesses- from recruitment, training, skill up gradation, retention, to employee engagement.

The services include training, research and consultancy to companies, organizations, educational institutions, etc. Her team is supported by mentors and empaneled subject matter experts’ network that can deliver the required client services.

Ms. Chitra holds MBA in HR and has corporate experience working with leading MNCs in Manufacturing and ITES industries both at Mumbai and Hyderabad.

She has guidance from Dr. Siva Kumar and Dr. Asha Prasuna who act as honorary advisors to ABCSK Services. The advisors possess vast academic, research and consultancy experience in the domains of economics and finance.

Global and domestic corporate sector have been passing through a roller coaster in terms of the new-age technology-led disruptions over the past decade. Business transformation and adoption post-financial crisis of 2008 led to both opportunities and threats. There have been positives of quick recovery due to support from the governments in terms of expansionary monetary policies and low interest rates, while the imbalance in terms of fiscal and trade deficits, increased job losses, widening of inequalities led to domestic and international geopolitical tensions with terrorism, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist movements and increased uncertainty.

New economic thinking is the need of the hour. Role of government, pricing, distribution of resources, skewed sector growth, environmental impacts of excessive focus on economic growth, undue expansion of central banks’ balance sheets, excessive debt burden of low income countries and the unrest in Europe, UK and US calls for revisiting of the Economic Theories. Starting from consumer behavior, production process, use of factors of production, pricing, market structures, competition, macroeconomic policies, regulations have to be over hauled in tune with the rapid technological changes.

As far as Economic Research and Analytics is concerned, more insightful, application-oriented, impactful research to the local problems extremely essential. New theories and Axioms are to be developed and empirically tested. Industry-academia interface is must for the two-way deliberations and impactful research where benefits of research helps society at large.

It is the age of information proliferation. Identifying and filtering the colossal information and making into insightful research requires both methodological, scientific and structured approach. We propose to disseminate the simple tools that help decision makers on who to read, analyze, infer from the existing vast amount of data available to be used for strategy formulation and implementation.

Five tools prepared by us in risk management domain are:

Macroeconomic risk, Forex risk, SME risk, Country risk, and Mergers and Acquisitions Risk assessment. We would be happy to provide you advisory services.

We provide insights on risk assessment, business forecasting,training and consultancy services in the domains of Economics, Finance and Human Resource Management. Our models ardress some of the issues and challenges faced by businesses in these days of uncertain,volatile and ambiguous disruptions.

We put forth the argument that a sound self-assessed internal risk management is essential for the top management in their decision making in addition to the regulatory compliance-related rating services that are taken from the outsourced firms. Given the vast expertise of internal talent in the firm/corporate/business they will be in a better position to identify risks for their business and mature to such a level that they handle themselves before a rating agency upgrades or downgrades.



Team Members

Asha Prasuna

Professor of Economics and International Finance, Chairperson of Centre for Economic Policy Analysis and Research at KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai.

Siva Kumar

Professor & Area Chairperson, Economics at KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai for around 16 years.

Siva Kumar

A freelancer and HR Consultant to organisations & management schools in Hyderabad.