Finally GPB over!!!!

Don't take it as finally.. In the sense finally!!!!

We finally presented our growth play book to our CEO of healthcare global and it was a great experience... Our India CEO mentioned fleetingly in the morning at 3 am that they will be presenting the slides from my computer.. Little did it strike me that I have to be inside the telepresence room for this presentation.... Generally the work horse are left out when the main discussion is happening...

I in my usual mood, went to this office of ours n my cycle and in jeans... My boss comes to me and tells me.. Why the heck you are in jeans without a blazer... U will be presenting your self before the CEO of Our global business.... What shit... As if I care... I told him that be happy that i at least am wearing a formal shirt... The lower part is not visible when you are sitting in front of him on a screeen.... :)

The presentation went well and I have a mail from my super boss for a job well done and brilliant work in these slides... I am in half a mood to send her a mail that I will be more than happy when the content of the presentation gets executed and we have a better business here in India. These global MNCs intrigue me... Their ability to understand the intricacies of doing business in India is limited after spending more than 20 years here... They just feel that we are stupids like the Americans to keep buying what ever they sell...

To appreciate the model here... Unlike the americas... We have a model predominantly run by the private hospitals..... Which means they are looking for a high technology , lower cost product... Our inherited bias against anything foreign stems from the fact that we have been ruled by foreigners for more than 400 years... Though we like their products and the technology we get from them... Our guys are not ready to pay the premium that our bosses wants...

What needs to be understood is the fact that premium and relative premium position is dependent on what the market is offering... By which I mean the competitors... If my competitor is offering a product which is going to serve the same purpose as mine... And they are offering the same at 100 rs while I offer my product at 110 rs... I still am getting the necessary premium for my products.. Whereas our boss in US is asking us to get the price of 150... We as a company understand customer value and preception to the minimum... That's the sign of an arrogant company who wants our customers to buy what they sell...

Anyway I feel we are moving in the right direction to understand our customers better and make products that suit our customer requirements better than what they think in US A...

With a good pitch done to our global healthcare CEO we have one more task of pitching our strategy to the CEO of India business.. All the best.. I have been given the leeway to take a day off and get back with a bang Thursday onwards on the next game... That's what we call the growth play book.....

After a real long time!!!!

I had almost forgotten that I had a blog.. I did this random search on google for archishmathe and one of the first few entries actually had my blog... ;)

I was curious and actually read some of the stuff I had written earlier and found them to be extremely stupid.. May be everyone's life looks stupid in hindsight...

This has got me thinking now... Do I start writing again!!! Or just leave this whole blog world to the better learnt... More intelligent beings. Well this Internet world is one of the few spheres where democracy and free speech is still applicable and there is no force t stop me from writing bad stuff.. As long as i do not force others to read it.. U wanna read it... Please do so at ur own risk... The writer of this content is not responsible for your reaction.. :)

Now that I have de died to write again... What should I write about now??? I am not an expert in any field to throw more light to the readers and enlighten them... I will try to stick to the basics... And try exploring some new areas new to me and to others.. (why the heck am I thinking about others... As if I have some million followers )

I will try writing stuff looking into the future... Maybe I would become such a famous blogger one day.. That I could write and make more money that what I am doin right now...:)

What ever I write... Should just make sure that my wife is not reading it... She is one awesome writer and has a real good, amazingly written personal blog... Does not share it with many except h close friends...

Its 4:30am in the morning and today we have the most important presentation to our company global CEO.. It's called the growth play book... Outlining our 3 years growth strategy.. I have been working on this document for the past 2 weeks collating data, analysing it and putting it together into a one cohesive growth strategy document... It requires loads of work, coordinating with multiple business leaders, gathering the necessary information and obviously cooking up numbers and data to build your story... The saddest part of this entire exercise is that... Nothing gets talked about.. Of followed on after presenting this document to our CEO.. And I like an ass... Spent the last two weeks working 15 to 18 hrs a day to put this document together.. Does not mean there is no one else who works on this... Equal time and effort is put in by the entire marketing team and our India business CEO... I just finished the final document submitted it to our global team for tomorrow's review... Yaaay

I have been considered to be one of the best guys in my organisation who can put together a brilliant presentation conveying a story.. We at GE believe in conveying stories.. Every chart has to convey a story.. And everyone tells me that I am good at it... And there comes the issue... So all free loaders try to pass on this work to me... I have to be a real slimy nut to wriggle myself from everyone's request and stick to my core job of making presentations for my boss....:p

Our CEO was pretty impressed by the effort we had put in. This is her first year in India and her first India GPB..