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About Us

Kaalp Consulting has been founded in

2011, by professionals with extensive

experience in consulting, operations

management and IT Services. The

combined experience of our team

spans several decades across industry

sectors, in international and

multicultural business environments,

with highly respected large global

corporations. We bring together

thought leadership and hands-on

industry experience in strategy,

leadership development, coaching, IT,

operational excellence and

transformation management.

Our founding principle is our

commitment to deliver sustainable

business value to our clients and

ensure that our services help

our clients grow and succeed. Our

strong industry and consulting

experience helps us offer innovative

and perceptive solutions, that enable

our clients to transform their

operations into high performing

businesses with a distinct competitive

advantage.

We collaborate closely with client

companies to realize the full potential

of their people and resources. After

gaining clear insights on clients’

business practices, we identify areas

where we could add value and offer

solutions that are realistic and

sustainable. Using

proven methods, frameworks and best

practices, we ensure that targeted

benefits and goals are realized.

Driving Business

Excellence

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Consulting Services

We offer consulting services in Business Excellence with a focus on two practice

areas - Executive Coaching and Operational Excellence.

Increasing globalization & competitive

pressures are compelling organisations

to raise their performance levels.

Consequently Operational Excellence

(OE) is high on the priority list of many

companies. Yet, finding ways to actually

enable operational excellence remains a

challenge. At the same time, a dynamic

and complex business environment is

heightening the need for high

performing leaders in organisations.

Expectations from executives to meet

strategic business objectives and deliver

results within tight budgets and

timelines are making their jobs ever

more demanding. To address these twin

challenges, we are working with

organisations to adopt a combined

approach to leadership and operational

excellence using our ‘Star'

Excellence Framework .

Mindset Change Collaboration Execution

Flow Value Addition Best Practices

Learning & KM Innovation Agile & Adaptive

Measurement Benchmarking Control

Vision Commitment

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Executive Coaching

Leadership capability is by far the most

important success factor to foster a

culture of excellence and continual

improvement. We use ‘Executive

Coaching’ as a method to assist leaders

cope with these demands, calibrate

strategy, leverage their inner potential

and develop the capability needed to

become better leaders. We work with

our clients in this transformational

journey which requires a clear vision,

mind set change, teamwork and

adaptive processes that encourage

learning and innovation.

Training programs are designed to apply

to a group of people and may or may

not relate directly to an individual’s

specific needs. In contrast, Coaching

focuses completely on the individual and

is tailored to a suit the requirements of

the manager. Coaching is a self

discovery process, using experiential

learning and a solution focused

systematic process, for leaders to re-

orient their thinking and achieve positive

measureable change.

Our coaching methodology is based on

the Ericksonian ‘Advanced Solution

Focussed Coaching’ framework which

has been successfully applied in several

countries around the globe. This model

lays a strong emphasis on achieving

desired outcomes and validating results

using evidence procedures. We conduct

our coaching sessions using the

‘Coaching Arrow Model’ in combination

with four quadrant methodologies,

white boarding, wheel exploration and

logical level expression techniques.

We make a conscious effort to evolve

coaching strategies to create sustainable

value. Our Coaches have inherently

strong interpersonal skills and combined

with the experience in managing large

teams in a wide range of industry

sectors and multicultural environments,

they bring a lot of experiential value to

coaching engagements.

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Operational Excellence

Well known and successful international organizations have

discovered Operational Excellence using ‘Lean Six Sigma’ to be

an effective approach to enhance their competitive edge and save billions of dollars.

Essentially, Lean is all about enhancing

value creation by reducing or eliminating

non value added activities and waste. Or

‘doing more with less’ – less time,

inventory, space, effort and cost.

Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality and

reliability of processes and minimizing

variability using quality management

and statistical methods.

Lean Six Sigma, is thus a marriage of two distinct business management strategies

which allows managers to effectively address issues of speed, quality and cost.

Our experience has established that

Lean is best implemented as a

‘Growth’ strategy rather than a ‘cost

saving’ strategy. If customer focus,

creating ‘value’ and making it ‘flow’

to the customer are at the core of the

Lean implementation philosophy, it

facilitates business growth due to the

better value proposition and higher

customer satisfaction. Cost savings

and benefits are then natural outcomes

that are realized without much

additional effort.

We assist client teams to adopt a

holistic view in identifying process

areas for improvement and use

appropriate Lean Six Sigma tools and

techniques to achieve significant

improvements in business

performance. Operational Excellence is

a journey, not a destination and hence

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we work towards embedding a culture

of continual improvement in

organisations we work with.

The journey for Operational Excellence

begins with the top management team.

Leadership commitment and

sponsorship is essential and by far the

most important success factor. We

work with company leadership teams

to articulate the vision and strategy for

operational excellence and prepare a

communication plan for employees, to

highlight the importance of OE for the

organisation and its impact on

achieving business goals.

Our ‘Star' model with a participative

workshop driven approach is used to

deploy Operational Excellence in

organisations. In this approach, team

members play a key role and are

actively involved in assessing the

current situation, identifying areas for

improvement and designing process

changes.

Visual charts & templates are

extensively used to improve

effectiveness of the workshops. The

team members give periodic

presentations to sponsors and

management team, stating the findings

and progress made at each workshop,

to get a common understanding and

agreement on the actions planned.

This workshop approach has been very

effective because the direct

participation of team members ensures

better ownership of the project and a

higher degree of success. Since the

framework is simple, employees are

able to reuse it to establish a culture of

continual improvement. The activities

and timelines of the workshops are

described below:

W3 W2 W4 W1

1 Week 2 Weeks 4 Weeks 2 Weeks 2 Weeks 1 Week

Analyze

• Fish Bone Diagram

• Interviews

• Work Flow • Current State

Map

• Value Analysis

Design

• Brainstorming

• Future State Design

• Action Plans

• KPIs

Manage

• Dashboard

• Establish Controls

• Handover

Implement

• Prioritization

• Test Cell

• Implement

• Measure

Define

• Project Charter SIPOC, VOC

• Data Collection

• Demand Flow

• Value Tree

Mobilize

• Identify Value Stream

• Select Team

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Our Clients

Management Team

Alex Abraham

Alex has an exemplary blend of experience in manufacturing, marketing & sales,

general management, consulting and coaching. His core competence is in honing

strategic intent, organizational design and leadership development with a focus on

achieving quantifiable results. Alex began his career with Tata Iron and Steel Co and

then spent 28 years with Unilever. During his distinguished career at Unilever he has

held positions as Marketing Controller, Director Marketing & Sales in the GCC, Director

Corporate Affairs and Director Frozen Products - Brooke Bond Lipton and Managing

Director - Chesebrough Ponds, Zimbabwe. He has worked across the globe - in Asia,

Africa, UK, Middle East GCC, China, Far East and Pacific Region and has travelled to

over 80 countries.

Amit Dasgupta

Amit has over 30 years experience in Management Consulting and Information

Technology services. He has held leadership positions with multinational organizations

in India, USA and Europe with companies such as IBM, ITC Infotech, Tata Tea, M N

Dastur, Zayre Corporation and Philips. His expertise is in strategy, operational

excellence, coaching, transformation management and IT. Amit has successfully led

large IT engagements and transformation programs for several Fortune 100 clients

worldwide.

Abhijit Mitra

Abhijit has over 30 years experience in manufacturing, technology and consulting. He

has held senior positions in several multinational companies and was instrumental in

setting up the global consulting practice for Price Waterhouse in India. He has held

leadership positions in Dunlop, PWC and ITC Infotech. He has strong expertise in

strategy and program management and has conceptualized and executed complex

projects in IT, Logistics and CRM from multiple locations in India, UK, Europe, Africa,

South East Asia and USA.

B 302 Mantri Pride, 2 Mountain Road, Jayanagar 1st Block, Bangalore 560011.

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