Monthly Archives: June 2014
Product vs Service Business
Product vs Service Business – Srivibhavan Balaram
Interaction with VC
V. Chandrasekar sharing achievements, set backs and ways to bounce back
Leadership Path
- Reading Balance Sheets – Assets & Liabilities
- Financial Reviews – Revenue and Cost Analysis
- Entity Formation – India, US, Singapore, Europe : Taxes & Liability
- Funding – Angels, VCs
- Start-up ecosystem – Incubators, Accelerators
- Capital markets
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Taking a company IPO
- Raising Capital in the financial markets
Pot of Gold
Self Learning: Identifying Opportunities for Improvements and Developing Insights to get results.
- Core Competence
- Team Building – Delegation, Empowerment, Mentoring, Conflict management
- Communication – Listening, Owning Accountability & Responsibility. Vision & Mission. Interpersonal and Motivation Skills.
- Planning – Setting Goals & Objectives
- Time Management
- Identifying Blind Spots
- Personality Types – MBTI
- Problem Solving Techniques – Root Cause Analysis, Process Simplification, Use of Advanced Tools for Analytics, Art of Decision Making – Questioning Techniques, Collecting Information, Developing Options, Analyzing Options, choosing the best Option.
- Tools & Technology – ERP Systems: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics. Analytics: SAS, Cognos Insight, Informatica, ClickView, OpenOLAT. Cloud: Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Strategic Management – 80/20 rule, Understanding Big Picture. Conducting Business Reviews.
What it takes to Win
- New Approaches – Forward Thinking – Fresh Perspectives
- Super Power – Resilience – Foresight
- Strengthening the Core Business. A strong core business is the key foundation for profitability and growth
- How to develop Skills, Abilities and Wisdom required to lead Organizations.
- Develop confidence through enhanced Critical Thinking for developing/validating hypothesis.
- Enhance ability to put ideas across effectively so as to Inspire teams to embrace solutions for improving business results.
- How to improve probability of making Correct Decisions and getting right results.
- Focused on behavioral changes to de-stress and change the lifestyle leading to new way of living/working.
- Practice Process Simplification and People Development. Stop finding fault with others, look for opportunities for Self Improvement, Self Learning.
- How to train up mind to absorb required information at conscious and sub conscious level.
- Examining different ways of thinking about situations and exploring Different Perspectives.
- Our job is not to tell you what to do but help you to come to conclusions by asking powerful questions.
- Where are you now? Where do you need to be? What needs to happen for you to get there?
- Create Breakthrough Performance replacing incremental improvements
- Introducing a product, service or solution that will revolutionize the market
Strategic Management Program
Strategic Management Program is essentially aimed at helping execs stretch their physical and mental boundaries to take big & bold steps for leading multimillion businesses.
It transforms participants through hands on exposure to Strategic Thinking, Emerging Technologies, Finance First, BizDev and People Power.
It is a 4 day life changing residential program to help create a personality to tread leadership path. Program follows participative workshop design to deliver rapid learning.
Program also connects participants with companies looking for senior leaders. Post Program, we work as a Coach, Counselor, Mentor and Guide to help participants achieve their career objectives.