Bikash Kumar

Do you find yourself worrying about falling footfall in your retail shops? Do you worry about digital & omni channel retailers getting a head start over your business? Do you wish you could improve the ROI on your retail investments? I am the Founder & CEO of Integrated Retail Management Consulting (IRMC), a specialist business services firm with the expressed mission : “Assist the retail community in enhancing profitability and growth through integrated, value added services” Integrated Retail provides consulting services from Strategy to Implementation with: - Track record of 400%+ improvement in ROI - Successful implementation of over 2000 projects in the APAC region - Rich domain knowledge on retail - Deep functional understanding of softwares such as RetailPro & CEGID & how they can be custom integrated with other softwares, CRM & data solutions - Over 200 man-years of retailing and consulting experience I have rich experience at scaling businesses & consulting in strategy, technology, process, business impact covering retail stores, head office, product development, supply chain, infrastructure & human resources. Broad problem solving skills, including growth strategy, operations, technology architecture, implementation of technology solutions & management. My geographic experience includes India, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Europe, North America and China. I am recognised as a thought leader, across Asia Pacific region & am regularly invited to run thought leadership seminars and talks in the retail & consumer facing trade. I have a proven track record of affecting big changes through information technology, for consumer facing businesses ensuring an ROI centric approach. At Integrated Retail, and with other ventures I have delivered scaled impact on our client engagements. These engagements have been around: retail expansion, cross-border expansion, consumer centricity, business agility, brand re-invention. Through these engagements, I have been able to create business value for clients with over US$ 1 billion in annual revenues. My focus has been on accountable deployment of information technology (IT) enablers, which have resulted in proven & measurable returns on investments for our clients. I have been an investor & I have worked on scaling businesses across 5 countries with offerings around Services, Software product, Training and Content dissemination. I have facilitated businesses from incubation to scale and in to significant value unlock through exits via strategic sale of the businesses.