The business of scholarly publishing - managing risks and sharpening your business IQ, EQ and FQ: Faris Aranki

Inspiring STEM’s podcast program has highlighted innovations in scientific publishing and science communications. We have interviewed key opinion leaders and organisations working to advance, and quite often, to disrupt the status quo.

However, in today's academic publishing world, the pressure to deliver success can be overwhelming (and costly).  Often the response is to come up with a new, untested strategy but this does not come without risk. The risk of delivering the wrong thing, the risk of it not being accepted or being subsumed by competing demands, the risk of delays or overspend to delivering it; to name but a few.
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Therefore, in this week's episode we wanted to step back and get an expert business consulting perspective from someone who has spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for the corporate and non-corporate worlds,

Our guest is Faris Aranki, CEO at Shiageto Consulting which helps businesses reduce risks by making sure that the right strategy is followed, with the right effectiveness and the right focus; Shiageto calls this "sharpening your Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ) & Focus Quotient (FQ)".