The 9th edition of NASSCOM Engineering Summit – 2017 with the theme ‘Digital Engineering: Convergence of Disruptive Technologies’ was held at Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore, on September 21 and 22.

The event focused on convergence of disruptive technologies like Big Data, IoT, Industry 4.0 and how they support the ER&D sector to transform themselves and fully capture the benefits of the new digitized world.

Satven was Silver Sponsor at this prestigious summit which was attended by more than 600 professionals from renowned institutes and companies like the MIT, Daimler, Tata Motors, Mahindra, Maruti, Bosch, ZF to name a few.

Satven had set up a stall to showcase the engineering capabilities to the automotive world. Several delegates had visited the Satven stall and enquired about the offerings and were pleasantly impressed with the rapid progress Satven had made in the recent years.

The Satven delegation of senior management team was led by our respected CEO Mr. Rao S. Vadlamudi.

The summit was a great place to connect with professionals of various industry verticals from around the globe and surely a potboiler for cross pollination of cutting edge technologies and ideas for engineering a better future.

A two day leadership training program was organised at Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, for the management and leadership teams.

On day one, more than 40 project leaders and project managers of Satven went through a session on leadership skills held at ISB. The session focused on nuances of working in emerging leadership roles – today’s times demand that budding leaders understand personal styles of leadership. Skills such as influencing individuals and cross team collaboration were discussed.

On the second day, more than 50 members of the leadership team including BDMs, attended an exhilarating session which focused on negotiation skills. A conceptual framework of negotiation in a two-party, multi-issue situation was taught. The Satven participants also learnt concepts such as power of alternatives, power of intelligence, and lateral influence. The speakers gave away pointers on how to create value before claiming value.

A one day outbound leadership training was organised for functional heads and other key associates of Satven, during the Annual Business Planning meetings.

The event focused on building high-performance teams by harnessing collective talents. This programme also included sessions offsite and adventure sports. During team-building activities there was a lot of camaraderie and creativity on display.

The main takeaways were time management skills, decision-making abilities and conflict management. The particpants also discussed cross-functional team collaboration and bridging execution gaps.

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.