The unorganized Sector in India employs around 82% of country’s population. Despite the huge contribution of the sector towards employment and country’s economy, businesses in this sector face plethora of challenges – documentation, research, and business insights being some.

Although, the government of India has been contributing to benefit the small businesses and labor groups in Unorganized Sector through schemes and programs such as Social Security Scheme and Per Day Wages contribution to help businesses survive.

But the small-scale businesses and traditional industries today do not only stop at survival. It’s time for them to take a leap, to not only survive but thrive in their respective niche. These businesses under unorganized sector demand expert consultation and business solutions to work towards long-term success.

Responding to the huge demand of quality research, documentation, and business solutions SF Consultant entered the field with expertise, skills, young talent, and technology as their USPs. Another crux in the success of SF Consultant is the active work and over 17 years of experience of Mohammad Fazal, Managing Director of SF Consultant in the field of Traditional Industries and Community Building.

Since its inception, SF Consultant has made a notable impact by introducing cutting-edge technology such as Blockchain and Industry 4.0 to this un-organized sector. Another recognizable achievement of SF Consultant is the launch of first-ever online Management Information System (MIS) in the sector, which has been appreciated and adopted by multiple organizations in India.

SF Consultant in its wake

After seeing the huge demand of business consultation among businesses SF Consultant was formed in 2010, with the goal of delivering quality research, insights, and solutions to the government and non-government organizations. Through their continuous notable work with the multiple departments of Indian government and Indian artisan communities, SF Consultant is set to change the scenario of unorganized sector and traditional industries.

After the company’s inception in 2010, SF Consultant has paved a long path of success where the hard work of the skilled and experienced team cannot be ignored. At SF Consultant, the team utilizes the resources at hands to bring value to its clients.

Touching lives through expert consultation

SF Consultant, with its notable work for the Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of MSME, has directly impacted lives of over 25,000 artisans across India. The company’s impressive contribution in Handicraft and Handloom Industry has helped establish the transparency, accountability, and result-oriented approach in the execution of government schemes.

SF Consultant has not limited its services only to research, documentation, and business solutions. In the era of Start-up India, SF Consultant is playing its part to promote and encourage small-scale artisans by organizing events on entrepreneurship development and marketing linkages. The company actively works on online and offline grounds to provide a platform and national and international level of recognition to the new and upcoming artisans.

A fanatic’s journey to a leader

The knowledge and expertise of Mohammad Fazal as a former employee at MORD in rural development sector played a key role. Fazal was interested in working with Traditional Industries and Indian Artisan Communities from the start of his career.

This encouraged Fazal to gain knowledge and expertise which further got him opportunities to work with Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation (TRIFED), National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) etc.

Fazal also serves as the Technical Adviser of Council of Handicrafts Development Corporations (COHANDS).

The secret of sustenance

Working with the Government Agencies and Unorganized Communities simultaneously brings certain challenges to the table.

Government Agencies demand a partner organization to possess expertise in domain, schemes, rules and regulations, and relevant government interventions in the industry.

Immense coordination and cooperation with the entire Ministry hierarchy while working with Ministries on a national level is another challenge.

As for Unorganized Sectors, the most important practice also comes as the most challenging step – Institutional Building. People in Unorganized Sector often have less knowledge and awareness about government and non-government schemes and benefits. Thus, agencies in this sector must spend time in spreading awareness and building trust.

SF Consultant has gracefully tackled these challenges by utilizing the zeal and skills of young talents to get the tasks done accompanying the experienced and experts in the team working on building trust.

Overcoming the pandemic

The important asset of every company is its employees. During the lockdown, SF Consultant has been considerate towards its team by offering flexibility of working from home. The company went a step ahead by providing necessary training as well as hardware and software tools to ensure high work efficiency and employee convenience.

As the whole country went into lockdown, the lower-income communities suffered the most. SF Consultant, being socially responsible did its part by providing low-income communities with groceries, medical assistance, and education.

Post-lockdown since the offices reopened and employees started working from desks, SF Consultant has been particular in following social distancing and regular sanitization at office premises.

Rejuvenating traditional craft industry

“Indian traditional craft heritage has immense untapped potential. The industry is largely un-organized, un-trained and untouched by modern manufacturing and marketing practices,” says Mohammad Fazal.

There is a huge scope for improvement in market growth and livelihood of artisans across India. And Fazal through his venture SF Consultant is actively working towards utilizing this potential.

“With our Technical Support, Technological Innovations, and Design Interventions, our goal is to help our clients rejuvenating this industry,” he explains.

Setting up milestones

Since its wake, SF Consultant has partnered with private as well as government bodies. Among the company’s notable work is with Council of Handicrafts Development Corporations (COHANDS), Foundation for MSME Clusters (FMC), Ministry of MSME and Government of Madhya Pradesh. The role of SF Consultant working with these bodies have been on diverse grounds including technical support for Handcrafts and Handloom Clusters, consulting in policy related matters, and marketing events.

SF Consultant has left its mark by successfully completing the project with Ministry of Textile, NABARD, and Madhya Pradesh Madhyam.

SF Consultant has also nailed the Social and Digital techniques with the tremendous success of large-scale campaigns for Investor Summit 2019 and Swachh Sarvekshan 2020.

Along with knowledge, expertise, and technology scale, SF Consultant crossed next milestone in its path by being punctual with its work with Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Department of UADD, MP. The company’s efforts for being on-par and on-time were greatly appreciated.

Guiding the new talent

Fresh talent and young entrepreneurs today are passionate about success. They constantly seek ways to achieve their goals, they are diligent and ambitious to learn. And these traits of entrepreneurs take them farther on the path.

Mohammad Fazal, a successful entrepreneur himself, shares wise words with the aspiring entrepreneurs. “When it comes to success in this domain, focus and expertise is the defining factor.” Fazal says.

“Rather than dipping toes in all industries and areas of work, it is beneficial to be expert in a specific field and pursue clients in that sector,” he explains further.

While expertise comes from experience, where else entrepreneurs need to focus to be expert in the subject? Mohammad Fazal has answer to that.

“While expertise does come from the consultancy’s experience in the domain,” he says, “a more important contributor for expertise is knowledge and skill of team members in the domain itself.”

Leveraging modern practices and new technology could be an important USP for the industries to stand out from the crowd.

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