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Bringing Mentoring To SMEs

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BANGALORE, INDIA:

Today's knowledge economy offers tremendous opportunity for expansion of intellectual capacity and competence to optimally utilize limited resources. A technological orientation, an innovative mindset and the willingness to learn are the key ingredients in building a long-term and sustainable success.

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National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science, Government of India and Dell India have come together to bring THE TECHNOLOGY AND MENTORSHIP FORUM , with Anthem Academy as the knowledge partner for this initiative. UTV Bloomberg and DARE are the media partners for the event. The TMF offers entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to interact with successful business leaders and academic thought leaders, who bring rich experience and deep insight into real-life business situations across industries and functional verticals.

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The first of the three events took place in New Delhi on April 8th and then on 14th May in Mumbai and 19th May in Chennai.

Participants gained immensely from one-to-one mentoring sessions with panel of experts from a wide range of business and management specializations like strategy, technology, finance, banking, HR, marketing, branding, etc. The mentors offered guidance on how early stage as well as established enterprises can overcome hurdles, achieve growth and broaden vision towards building a promising future.

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(L-R) Rajiv Ahuja, Founder, Anthem Academy;  Rajendra Prasad, President & CFO, SRF;  David Wittenberg, CEO, Innovation Work Group; Neeraj Sharma, Advisor, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. Of India;  Prof. J.D.Singh, Director, Jaipuriya Institute of Management; Ramesh Vaswani, Vice Chairman , Intex

Ravi Bharadwaj, General Manager — SMB, Dell India said, “Sustainable economic growth can be facilitated by promoting the culture of entrepreneurship. By boosting the country’s capacity to deploy technology and innovation, there is a need for entrepreneurs to capitalize on several commercial opportunities and realize tangible economic outcomes.”

“In order to foster entrepreneurship, it is imperative to create an eco-system that not only supports and nurtures entrepreneurship, but also encourages them to scale up for global competition,” said H.K.Mittal, Head, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

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“This initiative was designed to offer emerging and existing entrepreneurs an opportunity to build new perspectives of running a business facilitated by technology. Promoting entrepreneurship will not only generate new products, services and markets, responding both to public demand and to the needs of today’s economy, but also serve as a catalyst for job creation.” Said Rajiv Ahuja, Founder Anthem Academy. “The SME sector plays a critical role in helping bridge the gap between India and its major international competitors, ” he added.

The participants got one-to-one mentoring on various subjects like from branding, product launch to finance, renewable energy, HR, etc. The mentoring session saw a enthusiastic participation, with attendees seeking guidance on business issues like scaling up the business, funding challenges, export opportunities, new business ventures, gains from technology, implementation of technology, ERP processes, and HR practices.

TMF has established itself as a great platform to foster entrepreneurship and encourage innovation by facilitating learning through mentoring and realizing benefits from leveraging technology across industries.

Source: www.dare.co.in