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The thought that drives us as management consultants
Ours is that the family business /entrepreneurs/startups in our country must master business, environmental and social challenges to secure sustainable growth, instead of focusing on short-term goals. We believe that progress and innovation should – and can – create lasting change. We are convinced that, in taking responsibility for the most profound challenges of our time, we have a unique opportunity to rethink the system. A new way of achieving growth and securing robust and profitable business, while safeguarding a viable future.
Most importantly, we believe that as management consultants we have an active role to play. That we stand on the approach of a fundamental change, facing a horizon of limitless opportunities – new models, values, technologies and ways of doing business, which must be executed with purpose. The big idea that drives us is to help organizations, businesses and entrepreneurs to redefine their reality and shift the world towards a new sustainable model.
We believe in our clients; we believe in their capacity and potential to redefine their world for the better. Which is why we help them to explore new possibilities, establish more resilient business models, redesign their supply chains, new technologies, all the while respecting who they are at the core. we know our clients are unstoppable and we are connected a common purpose. It takes a special something to change the world. And, together, we have it.
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About
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Our Credo
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About Us
Our Team
Advait has over 28 years of experience in industry, management consulting and coaching, having worked in leading organizations like Tata Motors, AF Ferguson and PwC prior to starting Management Consultants in 2009
Advait has expertise in the areas of Business Strategy, Balanced Scorecard and HR consulting and has led consulting projects across a range of sectors including BFSI, engineering, automotive, retail, pharma, FMCG, hospitality, media and advertising.
Advait is a visiting faculty at SP Jain Global Center of Management and is also a charter member of TiE's Pune chapter. He is a certified independent director and is on the board of various B-schools and startup incubators like BHAU and SPPU Research Park Foundation. He is an alum of IIT Bombay and has completed the Advanced Management Program from Wharton Business School.
Pooja has work experience in the areas of strategy formulation and execution, performance management, business process redesign, operating model and structure redesign, customer experience management and human capital management. She has diverse industry exposure, predominantly in the emerging markets of Asia and Africa, and has led projects in Banking, IT, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Media, Healthcare and Government sectors.
Prior to , she worked as the Sr. Advisory Consultant – Strategy and Transformation Practice at IBM where she delivered complex multi-cultural transformation programs focusing on digital innovations. She has also worked as an Enterprise Transformation Consultant with Nihilent, a global consulting and solutions integration company, where she delivered thought leadership projects in the areas of change management and customer loyalty evaluation. A project led by Pooja at Banking Association South Africa is a case study at WITS Business School, South Africa.
Pooja is a certified Balanced Scorecard Practitioner awarded by Palladium Group. She was a visiting faculty for management development programs conducted by Tata Management Training Center. She is also regularly invited by multiple B-schools to conduct lectures in the area of Strategic Management.
Eklavya Malhotra is an Engagement Manager with and has been a part of the management consulting firm since its inception in 2009.
Eklavya has led consulting engagements ranging from strategy formulation and execution using Balanced Scorecard, business process improvement, strategic HR transformation, and research-based analysis. He has worked with clients in India, USA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Nigeria and Hong Kong across a sectors including BFSI, Manufacturing, Automotive, Media, Retail, FMCG, IT and diversified business groups.
He has delivered guest lectures at B-schools like MIT, Indira, Narsee Monjee, Sinhagad Business School, DY Patil, FLAME and IMDR. He has spoken at industry conclaves like NHRD, IHRD, Business Agility India, Strategy Leaders Summit and LinkedIn Local.
Koushik Chakrabarti
Koushik has more than 25 years experience in business planning and strategy, implementing strategic initiatives, project management, joint ventures, M&A and strategic alliances, financial analysis and modelling, business development, channel management and product management across the BFSI, hospitality and technology sectors
He has worked with industry leaders like Tata AIG, BNP Paribas, Mphasis, Cox & Kings and IDBI in various leadership roles. He has implemented projects across countries including India, UAE, Saudi Arabia and the UK.
Koushik is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.
Manish Kotwala
Manish is based in Abu Dhabi and has over 27 years' international consulting and business management experience. Manish's areas of expertise include business transformation, Balanced Scorecard, identifying growth opportunities, operational efficiency improvement, cost reduction, due diligence and evaluating investment & acquisition opportunities. He has experience of executing projects across GCC, India, CIS countries, Singapore, UK, USA and Germany.
Manish was a Partner with Cedar Consulting earlier and was also the Director of Strategic Planning and Performance Management with the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development.
Manish is a postgraduate in Management from NMIMS-Mumbai and Mechanical Engineer from MIT-Manipal.
Ashok Kurup
Ashok is a consultant in Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma based in Mumbai. He has over 25 years of rich experience in leading Quality Management, Lean, Six Sigma, Organizational Excellence, Operations Management and Customer Service Management programs.
He has been associated with reputed organizations like Nielsen, Fullerton India, DCB Bank, KPMG, Citigroup Global Services in diverse roles.
Ashok is a Qimpro Certified Qualitist (Level 2), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor. He is a Machine Tool Engineer from the University of Bombay and has completed his post-graduation in Business Management from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
Anurag Chandra
Anurag's career spans over 25 years of Strategy and Management Consulting experience internationally, including across the Middle East, India, Singapore and Europe.
His past roles include Head of Strategy at multi-division global organizations, sovereign wealth funds and government entities as well as a strategy consultant working across more than 15 industries.
Anurag graduated with top Honors in the MBA program of Copenhagen Business School. He is a certified Balanced Scorecard professional as well as a qualified legal professional accredited with the Bar. Anurag brings to the table a rare blend of strategy / management consulting advisory, investments / wealth management advisory and legal advisory competencies.
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Advait Kurlekar has over 23 years of valuable experience in industry and management consulting, having worked in leading organizations like Tata Motors, AF Ferguson, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cedar Consulting. Prior to founding , he was heading KP Consulting as part of the Kirtane & Pandit Group based in Pune.
Advait has expertise in the areas of Business Strategy, Balanced Scorecard and HR consulting. He has directed over 350 BSC development projects for a variety of clients in India and abroad. Advait has led consulting projects across a range of sectors including BFSI, engineering, automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, hospitality, media and advertising, etc. He has handled assignments in Singapore, Hong Kong, Middle East, West Asia, South Africa, North Africa, UK, France and Germany. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international business conferences. Advait is a visiting faculty at SP Jain Global Center of Management and Great Lakes, Chennai. He is also a charter member of TiE's Pune chapter and has done an Advanced Management Program from the Wharton Business School.
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Pooja has work experience in the areas of strategy formulation and execution, performance management, business process redesign, operating model and structure redesign, customer experience management and human capital management. She has diverse industry exposure, predominantly in the emerging markets of Asia and Africa, and has led projects in Banking, IT, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Media, Healthcare and Government sectors.
Prior to , she worked as the Sr. Advisory Consultant – Strategy and Transformation Practice at IBM where she delivered complex multi-cultural transformation programs focusing on digital innovations. She has also worked as an Enterprise Transformation Consultant with Nihilent, a global consulting and solutions integration company, where she delivered thought leadership projects in the areas of change management and customer loyalty evaluation. A project led by Pooja at Banking Association South Africa is a case study at WITS Business School, South Africa.
Pooja is a certified Balanced Scorecard Practitioner awarded by Palladium Group. She was a visiting faculty for management development programs conducted by Tata Management Training Center. She is also regularly invited by multiple B-schools to conduct lectures in the area of Strategic Management.
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Eklavya Malhotra is an Engagement Manager with and has been a part of the management consulting firm since its inception in 2009.
Eklavya has led consulting engagements ranging from strategy formulation and execution using Balanced Scorecard, business process improvement, strategic HR transformation, and research-based analysis. He has worked with clients in India, USA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Nigeria and Hong Kong across a sectors including BFSI, Manufacturing, Automotive, Media, Retail, FMCG, IT and diversified business groups.
He has delivered guest lectures at B-schools like MIT, Indira, Narsee Monjee, Sinhagad Business School, DY Patil, FLAME and IMDR. He has spoken at industry conclaves like NHRD, IHRD, Business Agility India, Strategy Leaders Summit and LinkedIn Local.
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We are always looking for skilled and talented professionals. If you are interested in working with us, please write to us at contactus@.com
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Defining directions
A strategy is about doing the right thing. It is about how an organization will move forward and figuring out how to advance its interests. In war terms, it is seeking victory before the battle.
Effective strategic planning and strategy execution are key to driving business success and growth, and an equilibrium to be designed in planning and doing or executing.
Strategic planning is the process of articulating the vision of what the organization wants to be, defining its strategy, setting strategic initiatives, making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, and aligning the organization to ensure that employees and other stakeholders collaborate toward common objectives. The focus is on the future direction and performance of the organization. Through strategic planning exercises, organizations inclined to produce a five-year rigid strategic plan documenting the organization’s strategic goals as well as action plans to achieve those goals.
Strategic planning is not only a mental process, an idea in our head that simply looks at the past and adjusts for the future. If your plan is not in writing, you do not have a plan at all. Instead, you have only a dream, a vision, or perhaps even a nightmare.”
Rigid strategic plans work best in a stable environment. However, times have changed. Today’s business environment is awash with substantial volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The abnormal is now normal and uncertainty is now certain. The environment is constantly evolving, and the organization needs to be flexible, adaptive and responsive and a well laid strategy and plan always helps to navigate better results.
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Vision & Mission
Vision
We are passionate about inspiring Family businesses, startups, and other organizations to take the next step in their growth and become great organizations that are loved by customers and employees alike!.
Mission
Help organizations make the best decisions possible by providing realistic and actionable recommendations and insights to help them move forward.
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Human capital
Your people ARE your most important asset! They determine the customer experience. If it's good you win, if it's poor you lose. It's really that simple.
Human resource management is a planned and all-encompassing approach to managing people, the culture, and the environment of the workplace. It allows employees to participate energetically and productively in the overall corporate direction. It achieves the organization’s goals and objectives when done correctly. Members of the department supply the required information, administrative services, and coaching. It also includes management counsel, and expertise management oversight that the rest of the business requires to run smoothly.
An effective human resources (HR) department is a key part of business success. This function is responsible for your most valuable asset: your people. A lot of HR’s responsibilities are invisible – especially if done well.
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Improving performance
Learning is what distinguishes a great organization from the rest. Your employees need the best when it comes to skill-building and installing a learning culture in the organization and assist you with the best practices in the industry when it comes to talent development.
Learning and development (L&D) within an organization is responsible for empowering employees’ growth and developing their knowledge, skills, and capabilities to drive better business performance.
Learning and development strategies will differ based on the unique needs of an organization but do share some similarities. A L&D strategy should be aligned to the organization’s business strategy and goals with the aim of developing the workforce’s capability and driving business results. The solutions a L&D provides are driven by the goals of the business to close gaps, enhance performance, and adapt to the changing needs of the organization. -
Digital Strategy & Development
Your digital strategy is what sets you apart in today's world. Most of your customers are searching for you online before making a purchase decision. We can help you establish a strong online presence through WEBSITES, APPS, CRM, ERP and other software applications that help you find and serve customers better. We also help you with AI powered solutions that can scale your business to new heights
Our team has helped leading organizations optimize their technology infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
Our portfolio includes:
* IT Strategy Development: Aligning technology with business goals
* AI applications: Leveraging the power of Generative AI to power your digital strategy
* System Integration: Seamless integration of hardware and software solutions
* Cybersecurity: Protecting your business from cyber threats
* Cloud Services: Scalable and flexible cloud solutions
* Data Analytics: Unlocking insights to drive business decisions
* IT Support: Proactive maintenance and technical assistance
* Digital Transformation: Leveraging technology to drive innovation and growth
Our services enable businesses to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and reduce costs. By partnering with us, you can trust that your technology infrastructure is in good hands, allowing you to focus on your core business objectives.
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Learning & Development
A conducive learning environment is something no organization should compromise on. To amplify your employees' strengths, increase their leadership capabilities and have them acquire new skill sets, learning and development is an indispensable function for a progressive organization.
We curate an experiential knowledge sharing event, Between The Lines which is sought by clients as an employee engagement platform. The format of the session is three-fold, starting with a book summary of any relevant management book, followed by a panel discussion with invited industry leaders on key insights emanating from the book. The book presentation and panel discussion is interspersed with a fun quiz. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate knowledge on management best practices by combining theory and real-life experiences.
At , we support organizations in improving their business performance through innovative and creative learning interventions:
Strategy Management Masterclass:
We facilitate customized workshops that help executives gain a deeper understanding of key tools and techniques required for successful Strategy Management.
Competency Assessment and Development Centers:
We help in designing and implementing assessment centers for all levels, to drive a culture of talent management. This offering is driven in partnership with 's trusted Associates.
Management and Leadership Development Programs:
We offer customized learning programs on topics such as team building, industry awareness, business context understanding, business communication, role-goal clarity, key management subjects, to equip executives with an understanding of complex global marketplace and core business functions. These programs inspire and develop individuals to assume leadership roles and drive organizational change.
Between The Lines
We curate an experiential knowledge sharing event, Between The Lines which is sought by clients as an employee engagement platform. The format of the session is three-fold, starting with a book summary of any relevant management book, followed by a panel discussion with invited industry leaders on key insights emanating from the book. The book presentation and panel discussion is interspersed with a fun quiz. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate knowledge on management best practices by combining theory and real-life experiences.
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Our Clients
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Our Clients
Testimonials
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Essar Group
Sujaya Banerjee (Chief Talent Office & Sr. VP - HR)
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Future Generali India
Sunil Wariar (Head-Human Capital)
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Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Shefali Mohapatra (Chief People Officer)
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Dimexon
Rajiv Mehta (Director)
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AWR Automotive
Michel I. Ayat (Managing Director)
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Orra
Vijay Jain (CEO)
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Lexcel
Anil Ahluwalia (Group Managing Director)
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You Broadband
EVS Chakravarthy (Director & CEO)
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ABT Foods Limited
M Balasubramanium (Director, ABT Foods Ltd.)
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Indo Schottle Auto Parts Pvt. Ltd.
Ramanchandra Rao (Managing Director)
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Icon Analytical Equipment Pvt. Ltd.
Anand V Rao (Managing Director)
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Magicrete Building Solutions Pvt.Ltd
Sourabh Bansal (Managing Director)
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Zorabian Sales & Marketing
Perizaad Zorabian (Partner)
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Sequent Scientific Limited
Manish Gupta (Managing Director)
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Bridgestone India Pvt. Ltd.
Parag Satpute (Managing Director)
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Liberty General Insurance
Priya Vasudevan (President – Human Resources)
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Ghatge Trucking
Gaurav Ghatge (Managing Director)
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RBL Bank
Sunny Uberoi (Chief of Staff and Head – Change Management & Service Delivery)
Essar Group
Sujaya Banerjee (Chief Talent Office & Sr. VP - HR)
We engaged to undertake BSC awareness sessions and diagnostics of the BSCs prepared by the CXOs to improve the quality of the Balanced Scorecards. The participative and case-based pedagogy lent a considerable insight into the BSC-based performance review mechanism and helped address some of the underlying issues and impediments. The incisive feedback shared by on the BSC construct and content paved the way for a robust self-assessment and enabled smooth completion of our Annual Performance Review cycle of 2014.
Future Generali India
Sunil Wariar (Head-Human Capital)We are pleased with the assistance received from Management Consulting in helping us forming the Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard framework within the Life and Non-Life businesses of Future Generali. The voice of employee ('Awaaz') was another exercise done by that helped us identify and address the issues arising out of employee involvement and employee engagement and understand the base level of satisfaction within the two organizations. We hope to see greater direction and focus amongst the team because of the framework and the assistance provided by the team. We look forward to further associations in the future.
Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Shefali Mohapatra (Chief People Officer)It was a pleasure to work with the team on development and implementation of the competency framework across all functions and levels of ACT. I would like to commend the team for extensive support rendered for successful design of the competency model that successfully tackled the challenge of the diversity of our work culture while addressing the intricacies of our niche business. The competency dictionary and mapping has rendered greater clarity to our workforce and established a roadmap for their career growth. We look forward to maintaining this relationship.
Dimexon
Rajiv Mehta (Director)The team took extreme care to understand our business and interacted with our people and always worked as 1 team. Furthermore, they addressed the need of the hour without referring to project scope and engagement – always working to provide a solution to any problem that may have been unforeseen at the scoping stage. I will certainly call upon the team as and when future requirements arise and look forward to future engagements.
AWR Automotive
Michel I. Ayat (Managing Director)I was particularly impressed with 's ability to understand our organization's work culture and working closely with the management team in coming up with a framework that ensured complete buy-in from all, which in my opinion, is highly critical to the success of any project. Over the years, this association has turned into such a healthy relationship that your name springs first to our mind whenever we are looking out for external assistance for any strategic initiative that we want to launch. We look forward to maintaining this relationship that benefits us mutually.
Orra
Vijay Jain (CEO)Over the several years of our association, your team has added immense value to Orra through the various models of Strategic Validation using Balanced Scorecard, MIS Development, Performance Management System, Business Process Improvement and most importantly the extensive and extended support that has given the Orra management team for implementation and operational improvement. Your insights into our operations were important as you looked into them not only from a ' strategic perspective ' but also from an operations perspective at a 'granular/ transactional level'. While other consultants work at a broader level, I think what sets apart is the team's willingness to dirty their hands.
Lexcel
Anil Ahluwalia (Group Managing Director)We have been working with for the last few years to drive our Balanced Scorecard programme across our group. had been involved in the entire process from vision articulation to effective implementation, which included the development of a quarterly review template and hand-holding during the learning period. The programme is now fully implemented and has resulted in a big cultural shift in the way of doing business. I would like to specially mention 's effort to understand the culture in Nigeria, understand our business and their commitment to addressing critical issues and finding effective solutions.
You Broadband
EVS Chakravarthy (Director & CEO)was our first choice when we decided to reignite the Balanced Scorecard initiative. It was commendable that they mobilized their team in a short timeframe. I would like to commend the team for their committed efforts, which ensured implementation of the BSC framework to meet our tight deadline. What we also appreciate is your initiative and facilitation in preparing the three year business plan with participation of the business teams, it definitely contributed to their understanding of linking the financial impact to their operational targets.
ABT Foods Limited
M Balasubramanium (Director, ABT Foods Ltd.)Our strong resolve to build a strategy-oriented organization led us to engage for implementation of the Balanced Scorecard. The team spent considerable time understanding our industry, business, performance and more importantly, the people involved. Consequently, the strategy workshops facilitated by you were instrumental in generating consensus on the way forward for our organization and the detailed analysis carried out by the team corroborated the strategic choices available to us. As our relationship grows from strength to strength, I look forward to engaging with on other strategic initiatives.
Indo Schottle Auto Parts Pvt. Ltd.
Ramanchandra Rao (Managing Director)Over the years we have had the pleasure of working closely with on a host of strategic initiatives that will help Indo Schottle grow further as a professionally managed organization. I would like to commend the team for the extensive support rendered to strengthen our HR function through active collaboration and continued hand-holding. While the initial mandate was only for validation of the HR policy manual, their insightful contribution led us to retain further for developing role profile and KPIs for key positions across the organization.
Icon Analytical Equipment Pvt. Ltd.
Anand V Rao (Managing Director)From development of the mission and vision to the HR policy and PMS implementation, we have benefitted immensely from the participative approach that your team adopted in helping us understand the issues faced by our employees on the ground as well as involving them in these exercises. The HR policy is a shift from our earlier approach and has been well appreciated by the team and senior management. Your professionalism, accessibility and level of implementation support have been admired by all in the organization.
Magicrete Building Solutions Pvt.Ltd
Sourabh Bansal (Managing Director)We have been associated with your team for over two years now and it has really been a great journey together. Magicrete has always strived to become an agile enterprise with best practices being followed across all functions. We partnered with for the implementation of the balance scorecard (BSC), creating a job responsibility matrix, and implementing PMS (Performance Management System) and KPI (Key performance Indicators) across the company
Zorabian Sales & Marketing
Perizaad Zorabian (Partner)
This is to certify that Mr Advait Kurlekar - Management Consultants has been working with Zorabian's Marketing and Distribution Team since August 2016. Zorabian as a company witnessed tremendous growth over the last five years with most of it being unstructured. The need for processes and structure was critical for sustaining this exponential growth and that's where Advait's expertise came into play. Over the last 8 months - He has worked with all the departments of our company -accounts , sales , marketing and has streamlined and aligned all the teams to one main goal , purpose and vision.
Sequent Scientific Limited
Manish Gupta (Managing Director)
It is a pleasure to recommend you and your team for any strategy facilitation, Balanced Scorecard and HR consulting work given our experience over the last 3 years or so
Bridgestone India Pvt. Ltd.
Parag Satpute (Managing Director)
Your inputs and involvement in helping BSID develop and implement the Balanced Scorecard framework at the Corporate level helped the leadership team to agree to the top strategic priorities for BSID for the next 3 years
Liberty General Insurance
Priya Vasudevan (President – Human Resources)
The team spent considerable time understanding our strategy, meeting the leaders and delving deeper into our performance management philosophy
Ghatge Trucking
Gaurav Ghatge (Managing Director)
's ability to get buy-in of functional heads while finalizing processes helped a great deal to subsequent change management post implementation of new SOPs
Sunny Uberoi (Chief of Staff and Head – Change Management & Service Delivery)
Gaurav Ghatge (Managing Director)
It gives me pleasure to state that the insights shared by have been crucial in deciding the customer retention strategy and the team exceeded our expectations
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Vision & Mission
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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What is SWOT analysis?
SWOT was originally created to analyse businesses in the corporate world. Its utility has now been made clear as a business tool that can be applied to many different situations; SWOT can be helpful for restaurant teams, non-profit structures, governmental bodies, and for individual quandaries on a person-to-person level.
Though seemingly self-explanatory, each of the four elements of a SWOT analysis chart have their own power in determining a situation.
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Strengths
- Strengths apply to what an organization excels at, where its talent lies, and what separates it from its competitors.
- Weaknesses are what prevents an organization from accessing those strengths or performing at its highest possible level.
- Opportunities can refer to external factors that would enable an organization to develop a competitive advantage or sector of specialization that would distinguish them in their field.
- Threats are both internal and external factors that could potentially harm an organization, affect its workflow or product output negatively, or hurt its workforce.
Weaknesses
Opportunities
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