Journey Blog

2025.04.08 | #SAASCON2025

Huge kudos to Sprout Solutions for pulling off a fantastic hashtag#SaaScon2025! 👏 Grateful to Gian Paulo dela Rama for the opportunity to be part of this event — and for the chance to connect with my Asian Institute of Management classmates!

Key takeaways from the conference:

✅ The future of SaaS is shifting from feature-led to output-led models.

✅ Flexible pricing models (like pay-as-you-go vs. subscriptions) drive user adoption.

✅ AI isn’t here to replace people — it’s here to replace tasks. Roles will evolve, so upskilling is key.

✅ Ethical scaling means building diverse, transdisciplinary teams.

✅ Think of AI as a horizontal — then apply it across your verticals.

✅ Government involvement — through partnerships, policies, and regulation — is critical to advancing AI in the Philippines.

✅ Startups: Don’t build a hammer looking for a nail. Make sure your solution is solving a real problem.

💭 Food for thought: What new challenges will AI introduce — and how do we prepare for them before they arise?

2025.03.11 | CMC

That was a weak launch entry! Haha. Got sidetracked and my brain just goes wherever. In any case, here we are. 

I am currently waiting for my CMC mentor to jump on the call with me and discuss how I can transition into the academe space. As not a lot may know (it is in my About Me page, I checked), I am a certified management consultant, which basically means I can help fix a problem in the management setting. Although my background is in tech (specifically the telecommunications industry), consulting is essentially a problem-solving skill. I have been asked to consult in various teams and organizations in my previous jobs - and that's also where I got my expertise in both data analytics and quality assurance. 

So what's the difference between Project Management and Management Consulting? 

The short answer is that Project Management is a subtask within Management Consulting. When you do consulting, you start with what is the apparent problem - what the leadership team tell you the problem is, and you discover the root cause with the rest of the grassroots workers. You basically uncover the actual problem first, and define the problem statement. Project management then comes in and work with you on the rest. Consultants are usually a third-party observer, and not part of the organization. Usually, but not necessarily. There are many consultants that are embedded into an operations team.

What are the pros and cons of having a Management Consultant hired within the organization?

Pros

✅ Cheaper as you can have a people leader take on this additional task on an as-needed basis

✅ Faster planning stage because you have eliminated the need to hire an external consultant

✅ Unmatched expertise from the consultant as she would have been knowledgeable of the existing process

Cons

❌ No true objectivity into what the actual problem is

❌ There might be some bias if the solver is part of the problem

❌ There might be some hierarchical issues that would prevent the internal consultant to attack the problem fully

I should probably put this in a proper article. Soon. For now, I think I just got stood up. Will check up on my mentor to see if she's ok. Til next time, Data Divers!

2025.02.28 | Ready to Launch

I am ready to launch! 

My passion has always been around and about data. I was first introduced to the world of spreadsheets when I was in highschool, and I clicky-clacked to Lotus 1-2-3. So when I had to work on Excel, a mentor from the Analytics department took notice of me and has taken me into her wings.