sid sikdar

Areas sid sikdar is Knowledgeable in:

sid sikdar's Problem Solving Skills:

1. mentor and advise startups
2. outsourcing to India, IT, ITES, KPO, BPO, OPD, offshore centers
3. web 2.0
4. business consulting, strategic review, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, Go-to-market plans

sid sikdar's Problem Solving Experience:

1. A technology/business hybrid leader with a strong record in aligning IT organizations to business goals and strategy. Proven ability to carry through IT benefits from conception till they add value to business. Global experience - worked with multi-national financial services firms both within them and also as a partner. Passionate leader with a mixed approach of corporate governance and entrepreneurial spirit. Believes in -- potential of entrepreneurship for social good; power of alumni networks & diaspora to create positive disruptions in global innovations and commerce; holistic development of an eco-system consisting of academic intellectual pool, angels/VCs, entrepreneurs, mentors, progressive public policy makers etc.
2. Specialties:
   
   Strategic IT Planning & Consulting
   Corporate & Business strategy
   Research and analysis
   Project & Program Management
   Start-up to steady state
   Facilitation skills
   Setup and Scale IT Operations
   Cost-centre management
   Offshore Transition Management
   Organisation & staff development
   Global IT Delivery (ODC)
3. During this period Transworks grew from a start-up organization of 40 to India’s leading ITES providers with a staff of about 800. Chiefly responsible for steering the IT organization through this growth phase keeping high standards of delivery and client satisfaction. Managed various functions – project management, planning, infrastructure, security, quality and audits.
4. I offer consulting assignments for SME firms based anywhere globally with an eye on India, either as a defined strategy or undefined future interest. I engage at the pre-setup and setup phases in the establishment of operations for Offshore Product Development (OPD), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Call Centres, Offshore Development Centre (ODC), and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO).
   Mentoring and strategy consulting for startups.
   Recruitment and executive search.
   
   Prefer to start with short term assignments and progressively build a strong relationship.
   
   I am also consulting in various aspects of business and corporate strategy for SME IT firms in India.
5. Myiris.com is one of the first financial content portal in India providing research and data on capital markets, corporate and mutual funds geared to provide investment decision support.
   Conceptualized and developed new product and market strategies for the financial portal www.myiris.com. Also responsible for online and offline promotion
6. As client Partner to a diversified $20bn Indian multinational Group, its group companies and joint-venture partners including major manufacturing and financial services. Growth and mining of business accounts with delivery oversight (revenue and profitability responsibilities).
7. Create and implement an India strategy that fits in the Groups’ business plans and generates value for the global IT organization. The strategy proposed a mixed approach of insourcing and outsourcing, creating a global-standard R&D center, and leveraging India’s “cost and quality” advantages to provide technology re-engineering with targeted bottom-line benefits. The Travelex Board expectation from this strategic plan was also to generate significant value for the Group for its IPO/ M&A plan (Travelex was acquired in 2005 by Apax Partners for approx. USD2 bn).