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Samir Sathe, EVP Wadhwani Advantage at Wadhwani Foundation
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Wadhwani Advantage launches an Acceleration Program exclusively dedicated to Healthcare Industry

Apr 20, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Executive Vice President, #Samir Sathe, #Wadhwani Advantage at Wadhwani Foundation, #Wadhwani Advantage program

Mumbai, 20th April, 2021: As the COVID pandemic has had a significant negative impact on global health, economy and society, medical companies and experts are now poised to tap the many opportunities and build the future of the healthcare industry.

In order to accelerate the process, the unique Wadhwani Advantage program empowers businesses in the healthcare sector having the capabilities to accelerate their economic growth by 2x-10x with the help of automated ‘Business Discovery and Transformation Tools’. The Wadhwani Advantage program includes 1-12 months of engagement and offers up to three years of hand-holding support enabled through a personalized Artificial Intelligence led business acceleration process.

This program aims to ignite the growth of businesses in the healthcare sector, accelerate revenues and free cash flows to fund growth for maximizing their growth potential through ‘Do-It-Yourself (DIY)’discovery and business solution tool kits and other knowledge resources using AI-enabled automated logic and personalized interventions. Wadhwani Advantage has partnered with Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED), Voice of Healthcare (VOH) and Xynteo Vikaasa to leverage synergies in healthcare space.

Those businesses interested in applying can do so at:http://bit.ly/WAProgramApplication-MarketingCampaign

The goal is to strengthen the business ecosystem without any commercial expectations. The Wadhwani Advantage offerings are high-quality interventions without charging any price. The curated advisors will offer pro bono and subsidized or success-based fees, if needed, to help the businesses to finish their transformation journey and be certified by Wadhwani Advantage.

Speaking on the program, Samir Sathe, Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Advantage at Wadhwani Foundation, said, “Healthcare is a key focus area for Wadhwani Foundation. This program seeks to enable acceleration of enterprises, which are able to address some of the largest and neglected areas of the healthcare system in India. Through this program, we aim to strengthen the Indian healthcare sector by supporting and empowering business enterprises in the sector. We aim to build partnerships with leading healthcare ecosystem stakeholders to jointly represent the voice of the healthcare businesses and work for their enablement.”

Wadhwani Advantage has come up with its own proprietary Wadhwani Index and Scoring system that would set the goals for performance improvement. The proprietary automated discovery tool is designed to empower the businesses to measure performance on the basis of 27 key performance indicators, with eight among them as the most important ones, across the seven quarters in the past and into the future and also allows these companies to compare themselves with industry benchmarks. The committed consultants engaged with the program will assist the businesses in using this tool and help the Healthcare component companies aspire towards industry leadership.
The Wadhwani Advantage program has built tens of scenarios for each of the indicators and has used automated intelligence and logic to recommend the appropriate transformation projects that the small businesses must undertake to transform and accelerate their growth.

Those businesses interested in applying can do so at:
http://bit.ly/WAProgramApplication-MarketingCampaign

Samir Sathe, Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Advantage at Wadhwani Foundation
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Wadhwani Advantage launches an acceleration program exclusively dedicated to Automotive and Industrial segments

Mar 9, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Executive Vice President, #Samir Sathe, #Wadhwani Advantage, #Wadhwani Foundation

New Delhi, 9th March 2021: As the Indian automotive companies emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, their internal capabilities like wallet share improvement, new customer acquisition, robust product development, manufacturing throughput maximization, generation of free cash flows and a sound talent lifecycle management in upskilling the employees are some of the challenges that the industry is facing.

The new acceleration program by Wadhwani Advantage aims to address these challenges and offer solutions to business entrepreneurs for maximizing their growth potential through ‘Do-It-Yourself (DIY)’ discovery and business solution tool kits and other knowledge resources using AI-enabled automated logic and personalized interventions. The goal is to strengthen the business ecosystem without any commercial expectations. Those businesses interested in applying can do so at:

http://bit.ly/WAProgramApplication-MarketingCampaign

The Wadhwani Advantage offerings are high-quality interventions without charging any price. The curated advisors will offer pro bono and subsidized or success-based fees, if needed, to help the businesses to finish their transformation journey and be certified by Wadhwani Advantage. The program plays a leading role in governance and delivering impact in accelerated outcomes of growth and employment.

Wadhwani Advantage has come up with its own proprietary Wadhwani Index and Scoring system that would set the goals for performance improvement. The proprietary automated discovery tool is designed to empower the businesses to measure performance on the basis of 27 key performance indicators, with eight among them as the most important ones, across the seven quarters in the past and into the future and also allows these companies to compare themselves with industry benchmarks. The committed consultants engaged with the program will assist the businesses in using this tool and help the auto component companies aspire towards industry leadership.

The Advantage program has built tens of scenarios for each of the indicators and has used automated intelligence and logic to recommend the appropriate transformation projects that the small businesses must undertake to transform and accelerate their growth.

Speaking on the launch, Samir Sathe, Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Advantage at Wadhwani Foundation, said, “Through this program, we aim to empower the owners, top management, the key functional heads in learning to make sound business decisions using data, an important capability to succeed and sustain. Our deeply engaged, passionate consultants will help the entrepreneurs and functional heads to use this industrial-strength tool for their benefit to maximize their own performance and together help their organisation become a challenger or leader in their industry. This is our core offering, backed up by 300 human years of practical field experience, rigorously tested algorithms and automated insights and deep realization that small businesses need to use data to make decisions to survive and grow.”

He added, “In addition, through our program management office support, we will also offer the auto companies peer and market access networks, connects with the pro-bono advisors and coaches to ensure that we hand-hold them as they navigate the challenges, should the need arise.”

Those businesses interested in applying can do so at:

http://bit.ly/WAProgramApplication-MarketingCampaign

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Edtech startup Utter App, in partnership with Wadhwani Foundation launched CoRakshak , a safety app

Dec 7, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Co-Rakshak Provides Safety Training, #Executive Vice President, #Ratna Mehta, #Wadhwani Catalyst, #Wadhwani Foundation

New Delhi: Utter App, in collaboration with Wadhwani Foundation, today announced the launch of India’s first safety training app for ‘Essential Service Providers’ to protect them against COVID-19 at their workplace and in their daily work routines.

About Co-Rakshak, a Contextualised Safety Training for Essential Service Providers

  1. Co-Rakshak is a multilingual chat-based app combining text, video and audio content to build user awareness and training for essential service providers about the Coronavirus and seek help from the right authorities in times of distress.
  2. The app offers best practices and standard safety protocols to be undertaken at their workplace and at home.
  3. Co-Rakshak offers contextualised safety training for 9 job roles in 5 languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English, and Kannada.
  4. In the second phase, the app will cover over 40 job roles and make it available in 9 Indian languages.
  5. The content has been created in accordance with guidelines issued by WHO, CDC, FSSAI, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, amongst others.

Why Co-Rakshak?

  1. One of the biggest and most neglected challenges presented by COVID has been the Information Disconnect between governments, employers, health experts and essential service providers.
  2. The information disconnect is especially pronounced amongst the economically disadvantaged sections of the society.
  3. Post-lockdown, essential service providers and blue-collar workers have been forced to come out of their houses to serve the nation and feed their families – leading to a second wave of COVID infections.
  4. It is critical that these workers are adequately aware and trained for self-care while operating in their workplaces and congested living conditions.
  5. Unfortunately, most of the information currently available is too generic and tends to focus on the lifestyles of the privileged sections of society.
  6. This can only be achieved if the information is contextualized to their daily lives and routines and transformed into actionable inputs that are relevant and implementable.

More details can be accessed at our website www.corakshak.in and you can download the app here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edmobilelabs.corakshak

Announcing the launch of Co-Rakshak Ninad Vengurlekar, CEO, Utter App said, “Utter is an early-stage startup focusing on functional English and currently fundraising for growth. When Coronavirus struck, we realized that information disconnect with regards to safety at the workplace has been an unaddressed area in the pandemic. So, we decided to use the Utter platform to build Co-Rakshak app to train the blue collar and essential services professionals in safety training related to COVID – in the context of their day to day jobs. We are glad Wadhwani Foundation came on board to help us reach millions of users through Co-Rakshak app.”

 

Ratna Mehta, Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Catalyst Fund at Wadhwani Foundation said, “Wadhwani Foundation is keen to back entrepreneurs who are innovating to help fight the pandemic and improve the overall healthcare ecosystem. Co-Rakshak is a great medium to create health related awareness focused on job roles and train people as they go back to their jobs. We are excited about partnering with Utter and are looking forward to amplifying impact together.”

 

Co-Rakshak Provides Safety Training to 9 Key Job Roles

  1. Delivery Personnel, Shopkeepers, Facility Management personnel like security guards, Home Staff like maids, caretakers, cooks, etc., Police, transportation workers like drivers, mechanics, etc., Hospitality personnel like housekeepers, Government personnel and Health professionals like doctors, nurses, etc.
  2. At the end of the program, there is a short test to assess the understanding of the learners.

Co-Rakshak: A Joint Initiative by Utter App and Wadhwani Foundation

 

The entire cost of development of the app has been funded by Wadhwani Foundation, while Utter App has donated its professional resources and platform for the cause.

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Wadhwani Foundation celebrates the spirit of Entrepreneurship through ‘Heart to Heart: From One Entrepreneur to Another’ campaign

Aug 17, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #‘Heart to Heart: From One Entrepreneur to Another’, #Atul Raja, #Bitlevel International, #Executive Vice President, #Founder & CEO, #Pankaj Vijayvargiya

August 17, 2020: The Wadhwani Foundation today launched a special campaign celebrating the ‘Spirit of Entrepreneurship’. The campaign branded as ‘Heart to heart: From one Entrepreneur to Another’, focuses on knowledge sharing by leading entrepreneurs to help other startups and entrepreneurs reeling under the pandemic by sharing their inspirational stories – how they found a way out even in times of acute economic and business distress.

The campaign has launched a series of five video messages by leading entrepreneurs sharing their valuable experiences in a heart-to-heart and inspiring manner, talking about their journey, the road to be a successful entrepreneur and the resilience required to tide over the COVID-19 crisis by turning adversity into a business opportunity.

Says Atul Raja, Executive Vice President, Marketing at Wadhwani Foundation, “The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc in the startup and small business ecosystem. These are extraordinary times and the best many businesses can currently do is to dig in, bide the time, survive and wait for the situation to improve, and then thrive. We conceptualized the –Heart to Heart campaign– as an inspirational voice to encourage and uplift the general mood in the startup and entrepreneur community through the confidence, never-say-die spirit and business acumen of five wonderful entrepreneurs who have turned adversity into opportunity.”

The videos feature five leading entrepreneurs stressing the need to be resilient and to plan beyond the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for growth:

● Arunabh Sinha, IIT Mumbai graduate and Founder, UClean, India’s largest laundry chain

● Avelo Roy, Tech entrepreneur and investor, and Managing Director, Kolkata Ventures, one of the largest startup incubators in East India

● Vikram Khinwasara and Piyush Kankaria, Co-founders of ‘The Yellow Straw’, a Kolkata based fresh-fruit juice startup that has taken the city by storm

● Pankaj Vijayvargiya, CEO and Founder of Bitlevel International

● Rohini Lodge, Founder of Studio Red, a design and communication agency with offices in Kolkata and Bangalore

Given below are the 5-videos from the campaign, featuring leading entrepreneurs:

This is the time to show a lot of perseverance and resilience – Arunabh Sinha, Founder, UClean (India’s largest laundry chain)
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Real entrepreneurs don’t give up. They hit the reset button – Avelo Roy, MD, Kolkata Ventures
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Instead of pivoting to fresh revenue streams, we ventured into a natural product extension of raw fruits – Vikram Khinwasara and Piyush Kankaria, Co-founders, The Yellow Straw
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Any entrepreneur can survive with grit and determination – Pankaj Vijayvargiya, Founder & CEO, Bitlevel International
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Look out for a silver lining to overcome challenges – Rohini Lodge, Founder, Studio Red (A design and communication agency)
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“It’s a fantastic time to hit the reset button to hit our lives and shift the direction away from being average and mediocre,” are the words of wisdom from Avelo Roy, MD, Kolkata Ventures.

“This is the time to show a lot of perseverance and resilience,” says Arunabh Sinha, Founder, UClean.

“Look for a silver lining in challenging times, as there is always one,” opines Rohini Lodge, Founder, Studio Red.

“Many detractors will try to pull them down, but not to lose hope is the key,” is the advice from Vikram Khinwasara and Piyush Kankaria, Co-founders, The Yellow Straw.

“If I can recover without any life-support and ventilator, then anybody can,” reflects Pankaj Vijayvargiya, Founder & CEO, Bitlevel International, on his amazing business turnaround.

Adds Atul Raja, Executive Vice President, Marketing at Wadhwani Foundation, “The startup community is well-known and revered for its never-say-die attitude and ability to bounce back. Most of the successful entrepreneurs of today wear failure on their sleeves as a badge of honour. The ‘Heart-to-Heart Campaign’ seeks to tap into and ignite the resilient entrepreneurial spirit by motivating startup entrepreneurs in tough COVID times and encouraging them to think out-of-the-box.”