4 Sectors Which Have Fast-Tracked Digital Transformation During The Global Pandemic

The pandemic has accelerated the process of digitization across different sectors & shaping up the business. These unprecedented times have led us to start a new journey towards digitization. The era of e-offices, e-classrooms, e-transactions, e-shopping, e-stores etc. have transformed our entire lifestyle.

Realizing the importance of physical distance, work from home is being pushed by most industries. India is a country where digitization has still not reached several socio-economic regions. However, the ongoing situation has led many industry leaders to come up with digital solutions where they have seen frequent changes in providing services and accelerated their digitization process. Digitization in industries like agriculture is helping to speed up the farmers and to maximize sustainability and productivity. Likewise in the retail industry, it is helping the kirana stores and retail stores to connect with their consumers and meet their evolving needs. Re-skilling the working professionals who are trying to cope up with the fast-changing work environment, digitization is contributing its best.

Here are a few brands across various industries & their initiatives.

Unnati- Agritech industry

Unnati is a new-age fintech a company offering farming lifecycle support to farmers across the country. Driven by data, the brand helps convert farmers into entrepreneurs by handholding farmers across every stage of the farming cycle with services such as working capital, purchasing the right seeds, nutrients and pesticides for crops, harvesting, and selling the crops. It is using new age technologies to streamline the process and using Machine learning models for predicting the agri-input needs of the farmer, creating farmer/ partner loan profiles based on transaction histories 2. Platform for digital payments, credit assessment, credit disbursal for farmers and associated fulfilment partners 3. Farming lifecycle management using a mobile app

FabHotels- Hotel industry

FabHotels launched ‘100% Safe Place to Stay’ initiative; Gears up to build confidence among guests visiting post lockdown. The brand every end-to-end possible precaution including frequent sanitization, special housekeeping protocols by thoroughly trained staff, guest temperature checks, contactless check-ins/outs and payments, availability of sanitizers/masks/PPE kits, and in-room dining .

MaxWholesale- Ecommerce industry

MaxWholesale is a B2B e-commerce platform for kirana stores to source inventory online. It helps kirana stores discover price and scheme on various FMCG brands and products and order the same for reselling. MaxWholesale ensures that all orders placed on the platform are delivered to the kirana stores within 24 hours of placing.They recently launched Radius, an app that connects consumers with retailers directly – a tool that helped at the time of lockdowns due to novel coronavirus.

Skillsoft- Reskilling

Organizations have been navigating through the emerging challenges especially when it came to learning. Most of the workforce is now Millennials (400 millennials in India alone, constitute one third of population). This demographic needs personalized learning backed by quality content, immersive learning interface and a great learning experience. Skillsoft's Intelligent Learning Experience Platform - Percipio, enhances the digital learning experience and caters to the learners' specific needs. Percipio offers different channels to read, listen, watch, play and practice. Employees also get access to different learning modalities like ebooks, audio summaries, audio books.