Founder · Author · Shika Group
I build businesses and write books, most of them from something that already exists and is being underused. Here I share what I am building, what I am learning, and the thinking behind it.
Maheshika HalbeisenPhD, MBA · Founder, Shika Group
Building nowCaptain Cleo, The Job Well Done and Why Not Sri Lanka?
How I work
See the commercial value others may be overlooking, in the business, the expertise, the audience or the data.
Turn the opportunity into a product, a platform, a system, an offer or an experience. Not a deck about one.
Position it, price it, test it with real customers and improve it until it earns.
Plenty of people can do one of these. The value is in doing all three on the same problem.
Who is Maheshika?
I am Maheshika Halbeisen. For twenty years I worked inside large organisations, mostly in life sciences and pharma, finding the value they were already sitting on and getting it to move: partnerships, accounts, operations, whole delivery models.
Then I started building the things I used to recommend. Today Shika Group builds, runs and grows a portfolio of businesses, products and books, and I write about what building them teaches me.
PhD Chemistry · Executive MBA · Author of The Job Well Done and Why Not Sri Lanka?
Why I think this way →Proof
£270m
value safeguarded
£15m p.a.
savings identified through Spot It – Stop It
£3.5m → £11m
consultancy revenue growth
14
ventures and products in the Shika Group portfolio
Outcomes from work I led inside pharma and life sciences, and across the Shika Group portfolio. Read the case studies →
What I am building
Products and platforms with real users, built and run by Shika Group.
Built and run by Shika Group. The full portfolio, books included, lives there.
See the full portfolio (opens in a new tab)Work with me
Need a website, an app or a platform built for your own business? That is the work of Shika Studio (opens in a new tab).
Ideas
Where commercial value hides, what it takes to build something people use and pay for, and where new technology genuinely changes the economics of work. Written plainly, and usually before it becomes obvious.
Business
They leave quietly, in amounts small enough that no single owner ever escalates them, through the gaps between functions where nothing and nobody is in charge.
Read the piece →Leadership
They are asking a smaller and harder question: what does this change about how we decide, what we own, and what we no longer need to be good at ourselves?
Read the piece →AI
When every business can rent the same intelligence, the advantage moves to what only you know: your context, your judgement, your customers, your history. The AI Office is where that framework lives, along with the AI Value Ladder and the Orchestration Loop.
Enter the AI Office →The next step
If you run an event, a school, a community or an organisation that could work with one of the ventures, or you want a second pair of eyes on what your organisation is sitting on, tell me. I read every message personally.
