Suhas Dutta's Profile
Suhas Dutta | |
Founder Director, KOOLSKOOL (delhigate educomm) | |
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Professional summary
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Current Experience:
Founder Director, KOOLSKOOL
Previous: Accenture Services
Retail Industry Lead, Global Delivery Centre Network, Accenture
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20.0 Years
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Analytics,Retail Operations, Management, Innovation, entrepreneurship, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Re ...
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Contribution score:(265 points)
- Contacts: 61 connections, 65 following, 47 followers
Suhas Dutta's Experience
| Current : |
Founder Director, KOOLSKOOL |
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| Retail Chain/Logistics | ||
| India, Bangalore | ||
Working from 2010 | ||
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Brief summary :
KOOLSKOOL (koolskool.in) is India's first and leading retail web site aimed purely at children of school going age.
delhigate educomm is bringing about a radical change in the school supplies business for students across the country with its patent pending business process, and innovations. delhigate educomm is going to the market with brand KOOLSKOOL. Visit us at http://www.koolskool.in/ | ||
| Previous : |
Accenture Services |
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Worked from 2003 to 2012 | ||
Brief summary :
19 years distinguished global experience with demonstrated success in multi-dimensional business skill areas - Setting up and successfully running global industry practices, off-shore development centers, running large P and L, CXO level strategic consulting, large sales, large outsourcing deal structuring, and large scale delivery organizations. Created and managed Project Management Organizations, developed delivery frameworks. Industry acknowledged domain expertise in Retail IT, large scale operations and management and creating and delivering IT Strategy. Frequent speaker at industry forums, and Co-author of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, 2004) of the Project Management Institute, USA. From September 2003 till date: Accenture Services: Partner From July 06 till date: Retail industry lead, delivery centre network (DCN) My role spans 16 global locations (including three in India) and about 3500 people. Of these three are in India, and comprise of 1700 people running a revenue of $85mn. My overall team delivers work for application development, maintenance, remote infrastructure management and process outsourcing. My responsibilities and achievements include: Set up Retail practice in India Grown headcount from 0 to 1700 in India in three years Lead sales efforts for all super large ($100mn+ deal) new clients and obtained repeat business from existing ones Unified our retail delivery centre locations globally Set up CoEs in India and elsewhere Sponsor for formulation of global retail curriculum Part of the industry managing directors board Front and centre for all retail DCN large sales. Present at client proposal orals Lead for all large business deal shaping efforts for retail DCN Lead for all large retail DCN global client CXO relationships Led large offshoring effort for Best Buy Led the then largest offshore transition solutioning effort for Sainsburys Won the worlds largest SAP IS-Retail implementation bid at Loblaws Won Swedens largest SAP IS-Retail implementation bid at Axfood Recent and prominent path-breaking projects run under my leadership Walgreens - Business / Ad-Planning Best Buy - POS testing lab Best Buy, Loblaw - SAP IS Retail implementation Wal-Mart - First PLM tool selection and implement for Apparel Prominent Clients / Relationships where I have provided strategy advice to CXOs: Staples, Nokia, Best Buy, Walgreens, Axfood, Duty Free stores, New Look, WH Smiths, Loblaw, Ross Stores, Dabur, Sainsburys, Wal-Mart From July 05 - July 09: client services organization lead My responsibilities and achievements included Led all large client visits for sales and vendor selection Revamped the entire client visit process, enough for other competitors to copy elements Successfully led (among others) Wal-Mart, Staples, Novo-Nordisk, Daimler, BMW, Timken, Sainsburys, Astra Zeneca (audit) visits Presented at proposal orals globally Successfully led many deal solution efforts From Sep 03 - Jul 06: delivery unit lead My core responsibility Started and took leadership of Products Business Unit (included Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Auto, Industrial, Health, Pharma etc) in Mumbai Sales support across Products Grew team headcount from o to 260 Lowest team attrition across the company Highest project success rate Formulated the companys first Project Management Course and ran it for two years. Trained over 500 professionals. Currently being run across the company globally Helped create the first offshore transition methodology From August 2001 till June 2003: netdecisions UK Ltd.: General Manager / Associate Vice President netdecisions is a strategic consulting and e-services company headquartered in London with multi-country operations. I was responsible for firmly establishing the offshore delivery center and its overall software operations. This involved assuring project delivery, capability enhancement, establishing and maintaining the Mumbai software development center as the core of the companys operations. As the head of the global project management pool, I was part of the global Project Management Office (PMO). I was also a part of various enterprise wide movements including those for evolving the company wide software methodology and IT strategy. Achievements Expanded the Mumbai Software Development Centre, established distributed development model as the defacto company delivery model. During my tenure, I have created an enterprise wide delivery framework which is used for executing distributed development. From December 1999 till July 2001: SeraNova, USA: Director Project Management Organization Based in Phoenix, AZ, USA. SeraNova (later acquired by Cognizant) was a publicly held organization involved with enterprise wide web related services and strategic consultancy. Job Description I was responsible for establishing the PMO and running its operations and thus responsible for successful delivery assurance of all projects across all onshore locations. This work involved setting up of a delivery framework, its governance, monitoring the health of all projects and providing consultation to projects and aiding in the day-to-day delivery center operations. Established an Enterprise wide Project Management framework, created / customized a project management methodology and contributed to the enterprise wide process and quality group for the company. Taught advanced project management topics to senior project management personnel within the company and at client locations. Also have worked as a consultant to client companies as a program manager. Also successfully, program-managed many client IT Strategy programs in the B2B space. Achievements Was elemental in increasing project delivery success rate by approximately 35 percent over 6 months Ran American Express first and largest multi-vendor B2B program From April 1997 till Dec 1999: 4C Solutions, USA: Program Manager 4C Solutions, East Moline, IL, USA. 4C Solutions is a growing organization in the software industry involved mainly in harnessing Web technology for e-business. Job Description Program management of client projects and programs related mainly with the e-business domain. As a core member of the PMO, provided consultation to project managers, reviewed projects and also provided pre-sales support. Team lead for evaluation of project management related software. Also led a focus group to develop a use case based software development methodology and reusable component library. Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert for companys move into e-commerce. Responsible for forging alliances with e-commerce solution providers. Subject Matter Expert for ISO 9001 issues and member of the change control board for 4CS software process. From May 1991 till April 1997: NIIT Ltd.: Project Manager (R and D) Job Description Project Manager for the core team for Internet related projects of the R and D Centre. Responsible for all sites produced by the R and D Centre. Gave courses on Internet and Intranet related technologies. Administered and maintained R and D Centres multi platform peer-to-peer network. Set up a web and other related servers. Also web-mastered the R and D Centres and the NIIT Netvarsity sites until taking over of responsibilities in Singapore. Program managed the then largest CBT program in India for Stock Holding Corporation of India Achievements First NIIT employee to start web-production, set up Web servers and provide the company a web presence. Also led the first web-based application project for a client. Team member of the pilot team which, helped NIIT get its first ISO 9001 certification From 1988 till 1992: independent software consultant Freelanced as an independent software consultant and developed software applications for local export houses. | ||
| Previous : |
Retail Industry Lead, Global Delivery Centre Network, Accenture |
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| Management & Strategy Consulting | ||
| India, Bangalore | ||
Worked from 2003 to 2010 | ||
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Brief summary :
Retail Practice Lead in India, and Retail Industry Lead for Global Delivery Centres across the world | ||
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