The rise of LCP and the enterprise of administration consulting with LightCastle Companions CEO Bijon Islam

Bijon Islam is the co-founder and CEO of LightCatsle Partners (LCP), a Dhaka-based administration consulting agency that has skilled a constant rise during the last a number of years. Began as a small operation, LCP is now also known as McKinsey of Bangladesh, and rightly so.

We coated LCP a good bit in its early days, together with an interview with LCP co-founder and Managing Director Ivdav Ahmed Khan Mojlish in 2018. Between 2018 and 2022, LCP skilled phenomenal progress, going from a small staff to an vital participant in Dhaka’s fast-growing consulting scene. Immediately, LCP is a totally totally different firm with an expansive ambition to construct a world consulting firm out of Bangladesh.

I lately had a chance to talk with Mr. Bijon. We speak about a variety of subjects together with the evolution of LCP, secrets and techniques behind LCP’s phenomenal progress, LCP’s enterprise as we speak and ambition going ahead, how LCP operates as an organization, what are the main challenges for the corporate, tradition at LCP, the enterprise of consulting, consulting and analysis market in Bangladesh, we talk about his method to work and productiveness, classes from his journey and rather more. It is a sensible learn. I hope you take pleasure in studying it as a lot as I loved doing it.

Ruhul Kader 

Thanks for agreeing to this interview. We coated LightCastle Companions in its early days a number of occasions. We interviewed your co-founder Ivdav Ahmed Khan Mojlish as soon as. But it surely was a very long time in the past and LCP is a really totally different firm as we speak. Are you able to briefly speak about LCP and what you do as we speak? 

Bijon Islam 

LightCastle Companions is a administration consulting agency. This isn’t a really new service. Though we now use loads of the newest applied sciences and instruments, the essence of the consulting service stays the identical. Prior to now, folks used to gather knowledge manually, we now have automated knowledge assortment utilizing varied instruments and processes. How you use as a consultancy agency has developed. However it’s the usual consultancy service.

Broadly talking, now we have 4 verticals at LightCastle Companions: administration consulting, entrepreneurship ecosystems and investments, market entry advisory, and digital transformation.

We are saying that the whole lot that we do must be data-driven. As an example, an organization is searching for a consulting service to know method a specific market. Many consulting companies would resolve the issue by working some focus teams, qualitative insights collections, talking with the administration, after which producing a report.

Our methodology is totally different. We after all talk about it with the administration however we’ll additionally gather knowledge from the market, communicate with specialists, run analyses utilizing market knowledge, after which we’ll produce a report. It’s in our tagline that “we create data-driven alternatives for progress and influence.”