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¶ … values and provide an overview of my character. These three situations also illustrate how I respond to challenges, problems, and crises by using creativity, critical thinking, and communication. The first situation arose while I was working with Airtel. Airtel's launch of its broadband service was based on high density ATM DSLAMs. The DSLAMs had 16 Mbps of upstream capacity, which seemed like huge amount at the time. What the planning team did not foresee was that the 16 Mbps upstream capacity was quickly choked as consumers demanded increased bandwidth. The finance team would not authorize any upgrades, and at the same time, the DSLAM vendor demanded further purchases as per our contract. I came up with a solution. First, I put together a task force with members from all affected stakeholders. We worked with the vendor, who ultimately agreed to buy back existing equipment, while supplying a new range of IP DSLAMs at 10% lower cost per port. As a result of the upgrades, sales increased and made up for any initial losses we incurred. Thus, I helped the company upgrade, add value for customers, and avert crisis with a supplier.
The second situation involves my helping Spectranet launch a new prepaid broadband service plan. Spectranet was in debt, saddled with maintaining a large amount of optical fibre cable assets, dealing with broadband rollout, O&M, and collections. Basically, the company was losing money. I was determined to help. I noticed that all customers were post-paid, even though many were delinquent. Therefore, I devised the concept of a prepaid plan based on usage. With a team, I developed a financial model that worked. We set about the building the billing and networking infrastructure, a sales team, and a team of franchising partners. We started outsourcing operations and customer support, too. As a result, I probably helped save Spectranet from becoming a dotcom casualty.
The last accomplishment I would like to relate is more personal, as I helped my alcoholic father-in-law get sober. I attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with him at the beginning of his recovery so that he knew I was fully in support of him, and he has since been sober for 15 years. The experience promoted Baba and me to found the Noida AA chapter from my basement. Ten years later, we have become three separate AA chapters and have helped about 800 individuals overcome their illness.
This makes the task of managing value chains especially difficult. Opportunities for Improvement in Lockheed Martins' Value Chain In evaluating how Lockheed Martin can become more effective in its value chain strategies, there is the immediate need to create a more agile platform to base the entire value chain on. The use of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the extension of the value chain to services partners globally to handle Maintenance,
Value Valuing Santander The Santander Group of financial institutions is one of the largest financial companies in the world and has the largest network of branches of any bank in existence, with subsidiaries based in the United States, Europe, and Latin American, and with operations that truly stretch to every corner of the globe (Santander Group 2011). With such expansive operations and holdings, it can be difficult to come up with an
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Value A."Suppose your bank account will be worth $15,000.00 in one year. The interest rate (discount rate) that the bank pays is 7%. What is the present value of your bank account today? What would the present value of the account be if the discount rate is only 4%?" PV at 7% =$15,000/1.07 =$14,018.69 With a discount rate of 7.00% of the bank account and a span of 1 year, the projected cash flows
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