The Leadership Lens
Shamim RajaniStarted with one email and one client. Two decades later, I’m still building, still learning, and still cheering on women who want to lead. Every Friday, I share what I’ve learned—so you can skip the mistakes and keep the wisdom.
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The AI Gold Rush Is Breaking Business Models
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1999: “We need a website.”
2008: “We need an app.”
2012: “We need to move to the cloud.”
2017: “We need a blockchain strategy.”
2023: “We need a chatbot.”
2026: “We need AI in everything, and we need it yesterday....
What If Your Business Didn't Have to Send Everything to the Cloud?
Edge AI means running an AI model directly on a device or local server, right where the data is created, instead of shipping it to a distant cloud data center and waiting for an answer. That shift, processing moving from “somewhere far away...
GPT-6 Astra: The AGI Hype Is Loud. The Business Implications Are Louder.
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A quick warning before we begin: there’s a decent chance that by the time you finish reading this, OpenAI will have released another model.
We’re only half joking. OpenAI went from GPT-1 in 2018 to GPT-6 in 2026, and latel...
When the Market Gets Tight, Leadership Gets Creative
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There is something strange about being a business leader during a difficult market.
Everywhere you look, companies are cutting costs, preserving cash, delaying decisions, and trying to protect what they have built. Big com...
Experience Report: Genetech Solutions at ITCN Asia Karachi
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You can learn a lot about an industry by listening to the conversations happening around you.
At ITCN Asia Karachi, we spent three days doing exactly that.
From 23 to 25 September, our COO, Shamim Rajani, and the Genetech...
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COO at Genetech Solutions, founder of CodeGirls, and a hustler who never misses a good opportunity. 22+ years of helping SMBs build software solutions. Book a 1:1 business and technology strategy call at shamimrajani.com
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