Avenir Consulting Services is your partner in making and implementing critical decisions regarding your value propositions, markets, competitive scenario, revenue growth, alliances and talent. Whatever decision you are working on, our experienced team has the expertise to answer your unique questions comprehensively. Our consulting and advisory services leader Pradip Bhowmick is an accomplished business consultant with strong consulting, technology, and people management skills. Bhowmick brings to the table more than 25 years of experience that balances Industry roles in the Higher Education sector along with senior leadership roles in the Consulting Services sector. Pradip has successfully set up and grown the Government & Public sector technology consulting businesses in two of the largest consulting firms in India. During a recent engagement at the Chancellor’s office & Director of the School of Engineering & Technology of a private University in India, Pradip worked as a strategic advisor to the Chancellor and the campus executive leadership team.
Pradip Bhowmick, Leader, Consulting Services. Former partner PwC and KPMG in India
Our Services
A product strategy helps your firm achieve revenue growth and build strong client relationships, identified through client and market research and analytics
Identifying your competitive positioning, techno-commercial landscape, value chain entry point(s), regulatory requirements and selection of alliances & partners.
Supporting your digital initiative through implementation of digital technologies, training & onboarding of users and maximizing technology usage.
Deployment of front-line experts for a consultancy project at a public sector organization in South Asia
Our client is a Japanese origin global consulting giant:
- Avenir has worked with this client to provide consultancy services to a large public sector organization in South Asia.
- Requirements study, RFP preparation, client and vendor workshops, bid process management and vendor evaluation are some of the major activities performed by our team members in this project
Advisor to the Board and CEO of an EU based HealthTech startup working on its product strategy and South & South East Asia market entry
Our client is a leading developer of next generation rapid diagnosis tools using Artificial Intelligence. This startup client engaged us to provide advisory and consultancy support in:
- Identification of pilot clients and supporting the execution of the proof-of-concept trial(s).
- Promotion of the success of the proof-of-concept trial(s).
- Identification of strategic opportunities for growth in the target geographies.
- Preparation of a high-level roadmap of business initiatives and goals in the specified area of focus, in the specified geographies.
- Implementation of above strategies
- Establishing sales functions in the specified geographies.
- Creating clear sales pipeline and sales goals that can be defended in front of investors of our client.
- New business acquisition in the specified geographies.
- Establishing commercial partnerships in the geographies of focus
- Client relationship management in the geographies of focus.
- Maintaining a dialogue with public health influencers in the geographies of focus.
- Developing social media & public presence in the geographies of focus.
- Engaging digital marketing, brand & PR management firms.
- Establishing a lead scoring methodology and maintaining leads and CRM system.
- Acquiring market and competitive intelligence.
- Introducing client’s leadership team to key influencers and decision makers in the respective geographies.
- Performing market fit and traction review once in every two months.
Some of our other experiences
Avenir was associated with ADAPT SOLUTIONS in resales and preparation of IS Blueprint for ‘STARBOW Airlines’ , a Greenfield Low Cost Carrier in Ghana . The blueprint included
IT Blue Print
• Identifying Operational & business KPIs
• Business Process definition
IT Application Blueprint
• Application Software Requirement Definition
• Application Architecture
• Integration points with other applications
• The interfaces between the systems and end users
• Technology Blue Print
• IT Infrastructure needed to support the business processes
• Best Practices for IT Operations (ITIL)
Environment Recommendation
IT Organization & Budget
Recommendations & Roadmap
Avenir has been associated with ADAPT Solutions for enabling multiplay capabilities for a Bahrain based large telecom service provider Atyaf to drive business and operational process initiatives. For IPTV critical to service launch Atyaf has to take into due consideration largely three process domains, viz C2M (Concept to Market, L2C (Lead to Cash), and T2R (Trouble to repair). A total of 55 business processes were identified as mission critical for Atyaf to Go-Live, encompassing C2M, L2C and T2R areas. The BPM levels 1 and 2/3 were detailed out specific to each BSS/OSS implementation and operational stack. Those processes were governed by a unique set of operational processes which were common across this OSS/BSS stack and would therefore baseline the entire operations. They were inherited from BS-15000 standards and their definition would be mapped to IT Service Support and Service Delivery processes. The SOPs included standard processes around data backup and recovery, inventory management and billing operations. In addition. Avenir was responsible for preparing the Atyaf use cases that formed the UAT – ATP, covering Billing, Rating, Order management Customer care, mediation & Provisioning for triple play.
Avenir has been associated with ADAPT Solutions for preparing one Strategy document on Integrated Building Management system around Smart City Services for Infinity Parks – identifying the key Value-Added services and calculating the profit margin against having only regulatory services
Avenir has been associated with ADAPT solutions for doing a research on Microsoft Azure services and presenting one white paper to Microsoft on market intelligence about organizations in the Public Sector where Azure can be positioned as the platform of choice for deploying enterprise applications. This covered the following 1. Understanding PSU space 2. Segmentation of PSUs 3. Understanding IT penetration scenario in PSUs in other regions of the world 4. Understanding IT penetration scenario in PSUs in india 5. How appropriate the cloud computing/IT adoption would be in India PSU context
Avenir prepared study materials on “Step by Step approach to be a good Entrepreneur” and “Opportunity of an Entrepreneur for service and IT sector” for ADAPT aimed for pre-final and final year students of Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology
Avenir has also done content management and portal redesign and development of portal for Adapt Solutions which would reflect the firm profile along with work details with optimized server speeds to take care of heavy graphic content and usage of web safe colors
Avenir was engaged by Beas Consulting for managing an eCommerce development project for a Portugal based client SoftReady. SoftReady had their own CMS (Content Management System) for dynamic internet Portals. And they subcontracted the software coding (programming) to Beas for building custom services, whilst maintain the Business Analysis in house. The project involved developing self contained widgets which would be used, customised to build an eCommerce site. The widgets were developed using .NET Framework 4.0,IIS 7,SQL server 2008,RAD Controls for ASP.NET Telerik AJAX, Payment gateways ( PayPal Standard, Google Checkout, World Pay) , credit card payments and bank transfer related APIs. Avenir’s role was in project coordination and project management, tracking the project timeline, milestones, coordinating with client and the delivery team, estimating and negotiating on the timelines, ensuring the quality of deliverables and maintaining standard forms and templates.
We were associated with Rice Education, one of the leading competitive examination guide companies of Eastern India, to manage the course content and lead their content digitization initiative. The scope of work included: – Reviewing the existing study materials, mock tests of all the subjects being taught at Rice for all the competitive examinations by engaging external reviewers across the country and ensure quality study materials for the students; managing and coordinating with the course designers, DTP operators and proof readers; publishing the courses / mock tests for online access by teachers and students; coordinating with faculties, operations team and examination team and distribution of class notes during entire Covid-19 lockdown time and formulating a group of teachers of excellence across all boards for designing mock tests for board examinations
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