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The essence of strategy

                        is choosing what not to do

                                             - Michael Porter

 

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Analyst  + Strategist 

I am passionate about turning problems into creative opportunities and help companies grow.

Anchor 1

User Data Privacy  : DataSafe 

Project under Research Institute at IIT, Chicago

 

Data safe is an online and mobile platform to help transportation app users by scraping information in terms and agreements of app’s privacy policies and converting into user understandable simplified visual report to enable user protect personal data.

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Challenge

Solution

Outcome 

App users do not read the privacy agreements and their personal data is misused

Create a platform to spread Data privacy awareness and give user control to protect their personal data

User can make an informed decision about their personal data usage 

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Data and Communities : PULSE 

Teammates: Andrea Everman, Bryan Terill, Meng Yan.

Co -sponsor: Motorola Solutions, Ed Kaplan Institute of innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship

Won $5000 funding 

 

Pulse is an information exchange platform that shows citizens and police officers the main non-emergent issues in their neighborhood, and empower them to work on these challenges together

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Challenge

Solution

Outcome 

There is a lack of trust between citizen and First responders in Chicago which hampers the solvability of non- emergent issues in the city 

Create a collaborative platform to help each other solve the non emergent issues in Chicago

Reduced load on 311 (non emergency) system in City of Chicago and increased the solvability metrics for the Chicago Police Department

Problem Framing:

How can we build trust between communities and first responders?

Business Development Consultant : Powdercoil

Team mate: Hari Bharadwaj Pudipeddi, John Pew, Namrata Manjunath, Richard Yuxuan Liu,Ying Ying Song

 

PowderCoil is a coil coating company. It is entering the market with a new disruptive technology that will steal market share by leapfrogging the competition with a superior product and significant operational cost savings for its customers. The current market for the coil coating company is mature with no innovation over 70 years. As a result, the market is slow and resistant to adopt new technology. To overcome this resistance in the market and be the future of pre painted metals, we are recommending market strategies for the short, mid and long term.

Challenge

Solution

Outcome 

Powdercoil need to make an entry in the most stagnant industry with a new disruptive technology 

Identified and addressed the resistance from the stakeholders in industry and created a Go- to - Market strategy for the company

The company successfully started gaining Market share fighting the incumbents of  the industry

Market Understanding : Visit to Current Oil - paint coating factory (Edcoat)

Contact Me

Have a particular challenge you’re trying to deal with? Contact me today and see what I can do for you.

Chicago, IL, USA

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