3 Box Solution: A strategy for leading innovation

Future proofed organizations work in parallel on the 3 horizons:-

Operational excellence

Search for growth

Creating the future

A 3-day workshop on our 3-Box model was held on March 5-7, 2017 in Dream Valley Resorts for our functional heads, business development managers, project managers, and a few other key associates. This is the third session in the series of workshops to make our organization future-ready.

Prior to this, a one day session for Project Managers and Project Leaders was organised on March 4 at The Park, Hyderabad.

In it, many business cases of how innovation can happen in an organization in a changing landscape were discussed.

The 4-day training program on 3-Box framework was conducted by Prof Viren Lall and Mr Neil Marshall from Change School, a UK-based management consulting organization. The sessions included long-term strategies for better user experience involving the Box-3 model. How to work in cross functional teams to reach tangible milestones was a vital learning.

Satvenites got together for a grand contest at our Hyderabad office to create stunningly resplendent rangolis. Many of the floor designs were theme-based with tastefully contrasting colours.

The associates, like true artisans, were so immersed in the activity that they didn’t even keep track of time.

This time BDM team was also present on the occasion to savour the visual treat of the colourful rangolis.

Later the rangoli creations were judged by the BDMs and the prizes were given to the winning teams.

Mazda celebrated the 52nd edition of “The Ekiden Road Relay”, which was held in March 2017 month. This event is hosted by Mazda annually at Hiroshima.

The relay race saw a bunch of enthusiastic participants from Satven Japan as well. The participants ran on a 16.3km-route.

The event was held in 1966 for the first time with an intent to communicate with and understand the needs of local communities. Over the years, it also has helped to improve camaraderie between colleagues.

This year saw around 2000 runners from 298 teams, both inside and outside Mazda. It was inspiring for the runners to see their colleagues on the track, running together.

Professor Naotaka Hirami from Hiroshima University visited Satven Hyderabad to conduct a session on Japanese culture and Transnational Communication. He spoke about Japanese sensibilities in business and Japanese culture at large.

The associates learnt the Dos and Don’ts of dealing with clients from the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’.

On the eve of International Women’s Day, around 85 women associates of Satven in Chennai, gathered at the ‘Ideal Beach Resort’ in Mahabalipuram, Chennai, to revel in the Women’s Day celebrations.

They enjoyed the fun filled activities specially arranged for them and played few interesting games that made all of them involve and bring their hidden talents to the fore. Later in the day, they had a wonderful flash mob followed by DJ playing some scintillating music.

Few women associates travelled from Satven Hyderabad to join the party in Chennai and have the fun on the occasion.

The ‘SAE International WCX17: World Congress Experience 2017’ show is one of the largest engineering shows in the world in which more than 12,000+ people participated. This grand show was held during 4 ~ 6 April, 2017 at Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA. This year’s show had plenty of activity offering Technical Sessions, Professional Development Seminars, Knowledge Bar, Leadership Summit, Tech Hub, Learning Lab and Innovation Market for the engineering professionals and students. The Technical Sessions were exhilarating and presented myriad opportunities to expand ones knowledge of the endless possibilities in today’s evolving mobility industry.

Once again Satven had a prominent presence at the 2017 SAE World Congress and also set up a booth to exhibit the engineering capabilities to the automotive world.

Career Central at WCX 2017: Where Talent Meets Opportunity. Connecting talent with product innovators, Career Central is an ideal meeting place for attendees and recruiters. Connecting talented people with companies looking to hire, it’s where established professionals and students alike meet to explore new job opportunities and match their skills with leading employers.

This year Satven had set up a Career Fair booth to attract the best talent to meet the challenging needs of the Automotive customers.

This year the Sales and Operations team along with Pam had done a great job is connecting with the delegates, students and the visitors to the Satven booths.

Sreedhar, Davu, Ramesh Yendluri, Prasad Ravula, Ram Sudhakar, Navin, Sudhakar and Pam participated in the show.

On the eve of International Women’s Day, women associates of Satven headed to Dream Valley, a resort on the outskirts of Hyderabad city.

The women power was in full flow which was evident as they enjoyed few activity-rich hours of adventure sports. They made merry playing water sports, rain dancing and other games besides indulging in photo sessions during the day.

Project managers and department heads were accompanied by their spouses to celebrate the event. We all know our female associates work smart and hard. They just revealed another less known side – they can party harder.

Karthika Masam is the most auspicious month as per Hindu philosophy. It signifies the period of Sadhana – i.e. practice for enlightenment. Since practice by humans for enlightenment insists on purification; this month is chock-a-block with activities aimed at achieving purity of body, mind & soul.

One such activity is to be close to nature with trees & greenery, connect with mother earth, and celebrate this gift of God together.

In our endeavor to achieve this objective, we had organized a “Vana Bhojanalu” event on the 26th of November 2016 (Saturday) for our associates at Hyderabad. This was followed by an Open House session in which there was very lively interaction between the management team and the associates.