My clients fall into three categories: (click on the icon to expand / collapse additional content)
Startups and early-stage companies
Mentoring and Advisory to founders
Growth-stage Small and Medium enterprises
Advisory services to CEO and leadership team on various aspects of business, as well as facilitating technology adoption.
Virtual / Shared CxO
Medium and larger enterprises
Management consulting and technology based offerings in Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (E-GRC).
Virtual / Shared CxO
Examples of engagement / work done
I am focused on four main areas:
Strategies for Growth
- Mentoring CEO / Executive leadership team
- Helping setup Governance – setting KPIs and monthly reviews against KPIs
- Guiding organisation in external standards audits and certification
- Process review (Sales, Support, Finance and Accounts, service delivery and some aspects of HR)
- Redesign and introduction of controls and best practicesFinancing / Funding advisory and support
- Guide and Support organisations bidding for large accounts – from RFP to meeting with prospects, pitch and final proposals
- Formulating models for issue of sweat equity
- Contract review
- Risk identification and mitigation across functions
- Creating implementation methodologies / support framework and processes
- Technical due diligence for a large JV
- Setting up, growing and managing large development centres spread across locations, geographies, cultures, technologies
- Setting up new lines of businesses / practices
- Creating of business plans, medium and short term forecasts
- Formulating ESOP models
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Risk Management Advisory
Sample engagement : Conducted a GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) appraisal based on a tailored version of OCEG framework. The appraisal presented to the Board and Executive Leadership, a visual assessment of the GRC capability of the enterprise, potential impact of the current state on five key dimensions – Branding and Image, Performance and Governance, Strategy and Growth, Business Continuity and Human Capital.
IT Consulting
- Facilitated Founding team of a Telemedicine Platform in defining a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Consulting in evaluating and facilitating implementation of an open-source ERP for Manufacturing operations for an SME
- Facilitated founding team in commercial telematics applications in defining MVP
- Advised an SME maintain its Knowledge Base on a wiki
- Advised two e-business startups in adopting open source Project Management and Support tools for effective management of development
Education and Training
- Co-authored a paper on “Innovation Management for Management Education” which was selected by ISB for inclusion in the Innovation Educators’ Conference, conducted by CLIC, ISB, Hyderabad.
- For the Executive MBA program of a premier autonomous B-School : conducted courses in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
- For a deemed university and some B-Schools
- Created a bank of questions for the subject “Innovation”
- Augmented / revised the question bank for Business Ethics
- Reviewed, and recast the syllabus for Innovation, IT for Retail, and CRM for Retail
- Reviewed and offered suggestions to a University on a new syllabus for a new course on Lean Operations and SCM
- Conducted courses, and final exam evaluations in Business Ethics, Innovation, ERP and other IT topics
- Dedicated or course supplements for MBA programs and Executive MBA programs