Shushrut Adigon
Founder & CEO,
A successful data science consultant needs a wide range of abilities, including business savvy, subject expertise, analytical problem solving, teamwork, project management, communication, presentation, big data, software development, and machine learning. These abilities are necessary to steer an organization toward innovation and progress. Decision Culture is a decision science firm with a vision of promoting data driven decision making in client organizations. Decision Culture was founded in march 2o13 by Shushrut Adigon – a data scientist turned entrepreneur. They provide end to end analytics support data engineering, operational business analytics, visualization & dash boarding, artificial intelligence & machine learning. They provide a platform where academic statistical learning can be used for real time
business problems. We spoke to Shushrut Adigon, Founder & CEO of Decision Culture where he shares his journey of building and managing one of the leading data science consultant firms. Check out snippets for more details.
Take us through your educational and professional journey, what inspired you to establish Decision Culture and what drives you today?
I graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from NITK Surathkal in 2007 and a master's degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2009. After receiving my master's, I joined a data science startup, which was the beginning of my data science journey. Since my engineering days, I've been thinking about starting my own business and looking for possibilities and ideas. Given my background in analytics, client relationship management, and an entrepreneurial attitude in 2013, the decision to launch Decision Culture as a data science company made perfect sense.
Tell us about the learning experiences at NITK offers and what did you learn from the campus beyond academics?
At NITK, I've had a variety of experiences that have been really beneficial to me. First, students and instructors have distinct backgrounds objectives and areas of expertise. Throughout my time as an engineer, I had daily encounters with them, which taught me how to view situations from a wider angle, evaluate opportunities objectively, and generally be adaptable.
Second, the possibilities they give me to participate in extracurricular activities like sports, clubs, and college festivals have helped me develop as a person overall. I had the chance to head the NITK badminton team for three years, which undoubtedly improved my leadership abilities.
Take us through your educational and professional journey, what inspired you to establish Decision Culture and what drives you today?
I graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from NITK Surathkal in 2007 and a master's degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2009. After receiving my master's, I joined a data science startup, which was the beginning of my data science journey. Since my engineering days, I've been thinking about starting my own business and looking for possibilities and ideas. Given my background in analytics, client relationship management, and an entrepreneurial attitude in 2013, the decision to launch Decision Culture as a data science company made perfect sense.
Tell us about the learning experiences at NITK offers and what did you learn from the campus beyond academics?
At NITK, I've had a variety of experiences that have been really beneficial to me. First, students and instructors have distinct backgrounds objectives and areas of expertise. Throughout my time as an engineer, I had daily encounters with them, which taught me how to view situations from a wider angle, evaluate opportunities objectively, and generally be adaptable.
Second, the possibilities they give me to participate in extracurricular activities like sports, clubs, and college festivals have helped me develop as a person overall. I had the chance to head the NITK badminton team for three years, which undoubtedly improved my leadership abilities.
How would you define Decision Culture as an organization and its current position in the market?
An analytics company Decision Culture is dedicated to promoting client businesses' usage of data-driven Decision making. We provide help for numerous Fortune 100 companies in numerous industries. We focus on supporting data science, data analytics, and data engineering. With a history of over ten years, Decision Culture is a young organization in the field of decision science.
Tell us about the services and value additions that customers can expect from Decision Culture? And what are the changes in market behavior that you anticipate and what are the opportunities that you foresee?
As we progress together along the client's analytics maturity curve, Decision Culture forms long term partnerships with its clients. The differentiators are our experience across disciplines, adaptability, highly seasoned individuals, and our core competency in decision science. I anticipate that the decision science sector will keep expanding across all industries. Fortune 500 corporations will keep making significant investments. Midsized and smallscale businesses will follow suit. Over the next five years, Decision Culture is anticipated to experience rapid expansion.
What is your leadership approach, and the guidelines or methodologies do you follow to lead your team?
As a leader, I take a straight forward approach and view Decision Culture as a space where each person has the freedom to express themselves. Entrepreneurship is encouraged, even on a small basis. We continually ask our teams for ideas, which is only feasible when everyone is given a free rein.
Shushrut Adigon, Founder & CEO
Shushrut Adigon, founder & CEO of Decision Culture founded Decision Culture in early 2013 after working as a data science consultant in the US. His wife Dr. Kavya Nayak runs a cosmetology & dermatology clinic called Skinray Clinic. He has 2 kids Neev(7 years)& Nyra(3 years)
An analytics company Decision Culture is dedicated to promoting client businesses' usage of data-driven Decision making. We provide help for numerous Fortune 100 companies in numerous industries. We focus on supporting data science, data analytics, and data engineering. With a history of over ten years, Decision Culture is a young organization in the field of decision science.
Tell us about the services and value additions that customers can expect from Decision Culture? And what are the changes in market behavior that you anticipate and what are the opportunities that you foresee?
As we progress together along the client's analytics maturity curve, Decision Culture forms long term partnerships with its clients. The differentiators are our experience across disciplines, adaptability, highly seasoned individuals, and our core competency in decision science. I anticipate that the decision science sector will keep expanding across all industries. Fortune 500 corporations will keep making significant investments. Midsized and smallscale businesses will follow suit. Over the next five years, Decision Culture is anticipated to experience rapid expansion.
What is your leadership approach, and the guidelines or methodologies do you follow to lead your team?
As a leader, I take a straight forward approach and view Decision Culture as a space where each person has the freedom to express themselves. Entrepreneurship is encouraged, even on a small basis. We continually ask our teams for ideas, which is only feasible when everyone is given a free rein.
Shushrut Adigon, Founder & CEO
Shushrut Adigon, founder & CEO of Decision Culture founded Decision Culture in early 2013 after working as a data science consultant in the US. His wife Dr. Kavya Nayak runs a cosmetology & dermatology clinic called Skinray Clinic. He has 2 kids Neev(7 years)& Nyra(3 years)