An Emerging Companies Forum Initiative

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Mentorship Program

Background

The focus of the Mentorship Programme is to help the company leadership develop a keen sense of what needs to be done to take the venture to the next level. To derive full benefit from this you should be open to having your current assumptions challenged and should be willing to gain new perspectives.

In this six month engagement, you will develop a better assessment of your organizational strengths and weaknesses and will get a chance to reframe your problems in a way that makes them easier to address. The objective is to get you started on a process of orbit change. Since this change process will take longer than the duration of the mentoring engagement, the mentors will also coach you to setup a well-rounded advisory council for your ongoing guidance. All in all, this Mentorship Programme makes available "years" of learning/experiences into a six month period.

Objectives

• To diagnose the problem area/s of the selected companies
• To identify the gaps and possible solutions
• To prepare the companies to start working on solutions on their own initiative
• To prepare the companies for angel funding, if required
• The Mentor Panel would select the “Emerging Stars” to be showcased by NASSCOM

Mentors

1. Alok Mittal – CEO, Canaan Partners
2. Diwakar Nigam - MD, Newgen Technologies
3. Kamal Mansharamani, Managing Director & CEO, AlmaMate Info Tech
4. Navyug Mohnot - CEO, QAI India
5. Rajiv Puri, CEO & Founder – Disha Consulting Group
6. Sanjeev Aggarwal - MD, Helion VC
7. Sanjeev Mittal - CEO, Bharti Telesoft
8. Subinder Khurana - CEO - MarketRx
9. Vinod Sood - Managing Director, Hughes Systique India
10. Vishnu Dusad - MD, Nucleus Software

The Process

1. Check your eligibility to apply for Mentorship
2. Send in completed application form to Avinash Raghava at NASSCOM
3. Shortlisting process by Mentor Panel (12 companies would be shortlisted)
4. Diagnostic Session of 12 companies with Mentor Panel
5. Announcement of 6 companies selected for Mentoring
6. Mentorship Process (6 months and 3 months)

1. Eligibility Criteria:

• Company should be a NASSCOM Member
• Company should have been in operation for at least one year
• Company should have minimum employee strength of 50
• Company should have a turnover in the range of Rs.1 crore to 30 crore

2. Completed Forms: Should be sent to Avinash Raghava at Avinash@nasscom.in

3. Shortlisting:

Based on eligibility criteria above, and the details provided in the Form, the Mentor Panel would ascertain the company’s need for mentorship and make the selection for the diagnostic stage. 12 companies would be selected to make presentations to the Panel for diagnosis.6 companies would be finally selected for Mentoring.

4. Mentorship process

1. The Mentorship programme would be for duration of 3-6 months, extendable by 2 months.
2. If required participating companies and Mentors would sign an NDA with NASSCOM.
3. Participating Companies may not make public statements or disclosures regarding their participation in the programme without express written consent from NASSCOM.
4. Mentors would dedicate their time on a non-commercial basis for the first 6 months.
5. Selected companies, Mentor Panel and NASSCOM representative to meet and discuss the plan going forward.
   

• NASSCOM would design an appraisal form based on parameters discussed.
• Evaluate the current status of the company through appraisal done by Mentor Panel and company management.
• Mentor Panel would work with the company top management team to arrive at a diagnosis of the core problem/s and solution strategy, with milestones.
  

6. Mentors to meet with each company for 2 - 3 hours every month and, in addition, will be accessible on phone or email.
7. Monthly meeting of mentor panel and company management to appraise progress in achieving milestones.
8. At the end of the programme the Company along with the Mentor Panel will jointly present the progress/ benefit of the programme at a forum for emerging companies organized by NASSCOM.
9. NASSCOM reserves the rights to convert the learnings from the Mentor programme into a case study/best practices handbook, or to replicate the model in the same or other regions.
10. The Company and Mentors can mutually terminate their engagement by giving one month’s notice to NASSCOM.

 

 

 

Updated on: 12 Oct, 2009