Ecafez Live Webinar covered the basics of Design Thinking for ECA customers. The design thinking process has become increasingly popular over the last few decades because it was the key to success of many high-profile, global organisations. The webinar covered the basics and principles of design thinking,5 Stages of design thinking and how to use it in our context along with application of design thinking in solving our problems. The session was conducted by expert Arvind Raikar.
The focus of this program is on enabling participants to understand the advanced excel functions in detail, use excel shortcuts for better productivity and apply excel functions proficiently in day-to-day working
This webinar focussed on steel grade classification and steel for the automotive industry, comparison of international standards and important steel properties for sheet metal forming. Also on Zn Coated Steel and HR Steel applications in the Automotive Industry. A short snapshot of changing market trends and case studies is also presented.
Experts: Abhishek Agrawal and Parminder Singh from Product Application Group, Tata Steel.
Selling has changed. Customers don’t like to be sold, rather they want value and get help from sales people to buy what they need. In this new era of selling, our approach has to change. This webinar covers the following: Building Your Confidence for Sales. Prospecting, Building Network, Uncovering Needs of Customers, Giving the Sales Presentation, Handling Objections and Closing Sales. The trainer is Arvind Raikar with vast experience in delivering programs in Leadership, Sales, Key Account Management and Strategic Management.
Description: Learn and employ the world's most trusted and effective diagnostic tool for business improvement in COVID-19 scenario- Value Stream Mapping, a key part of lean methodology. Topics that were covered in this webinar session were:
1) Introduction to TOC-Lean-Six Sigma techniques
2) What makes your products costlier than competitors
3) Value Stream Mapping: to identify the process problems resulting in higher cost 4) Selection of cost reduction projects
Faculty Profile: Akhilesh N Singh is a Management Consultant with specialisation in Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, and TQM, having over 47 years’ hands-on experience of working in industry, management teaching, corporate training and management consulting.
Presenting part-2 of our Problem Solving Series on Lean Six Sigma echnique for reduction of cost and improving delivery and quality. Takeaways from this webinar include
1) Practical approach through case study discussion
2)Problem Solving: a step-by- step approach and
3) Lean Six Sigma approach: DMAIC-A3 model.
Faculty Profile: Akhilesh N Singh, a Management Consultant with specialisation in Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, and TQM, having over 47 years’ hands-on experience of working in industry, management teaching, corporate training and management consulting.
The focus of this webinar was on enabling participants to:
1. Create, build and customise meaningful graphs
2. Build dashboard templates for review and decision making
The session was taken by Gaurav Arora, experienced in Finance, Advanced Excel and Applied Data Analytics corporate training.
The Centre has recently revised the definition of MSMEs to give them greater confidence to grow.
Under the new definition, the distinction between manufacturing and services enterprises has been eliminated, the investment criteria for such enterprises have been revised upwards, while an additional criterion of turnover has been introduced.
What are the implications, challenges and opportunities?
We had Vivek Chauhan, Chief of Marketing, Branded Products & Retail in discussion with Dr Pralay Dey, Chief General Manager, National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) for a discussion on this topic.
Expert: Sanjay Guhathakurta, Industry Leader, Manufacturing & Natural Resources, IBM India, a thought-leader in technology and industry trends. He is associated with the Manufacturing, Natural Resources and Aerospace Industry. He is a sought after public speaker on topics such as Industry 4.0 trends, Digital Transformation in Natural Resources and Future of Computing. Key takeaway in this webinar is how MSMEs should adopt Industry 4.0 in short phases in order to get quicker benefits in this COVID-19 situation.
Strategic Leadership is crucial for current performance as well as for future growth of organisations. Yet, in many organisations, there is a paucity of strategic leaders and few of them seem to recognise and pay attention to this gap. The result is organisational performance and growth is way below true potential. So, what can organisations and leaders do to step up their strategic leadership capability.
This webinar focussed on understanding strategic leadership, cultivating the discipline of strategic thinking, appreciating the skills essential for strategic leadership, getting initiated on the journey to strategic leadership.
Expert: Dr Pradeep Nerayanuri, Head, Tata Steel Management Development Centre and Visiting faculty, IIM, Ranchi.
