The Road Ahead
I find myself returning again & again to the question of What Next? Where do I take the company & the team. It is as if it has become a guidepost for my career. It is not a question that we ask ourselves enough. We as humans and professionals normally dodge this question in order to avoid the uneasy burden of additional responsibilities and the risks associated with any vision.
In a company as diverse as Geomanage there is always a passionate liking for the activities performed by each of the team members. This is ofcourse necessary and it is one of the foundation base of our company. Yet with so much of diverse activities and so much of diverse cultures how is it that we take a company forward viz. How do we define goals which benefit all of us in the long term. I think the fundamentals lie in acceptance and respect. It is like; if only a scholar acknowledges that the sportsman feels the same way about his shoes as he feels about his books.
With the starting of our offices in India the team has extended beyond Geographical and cultural borders. The work also has become cross border and time barriers are being broken down. It has become a 24x7 job which is being done in a hurry and sometimes I feel that I am riding down an expressway. Inspite of all this speed and busy days I have always addressed the question What Next? Which I thought would be a good idea to put it down so that after sometime I can go back and judge myself as to what has been achieved.
To begin with; The vision of Geomanage is to become a truly global company with offices spanning countries and continents so that the customers intending to go global have a one stop solution for their global aspirations. At first I would like to make use of all the Project management skills available within the company be it in diverse industry segments such as Infrastructure, Oil&Gas, Finance or IT.
We would like to integrate these skill sets and try to develop a commercially viable business model which will be financially profitable to all the stake holders. With this in mind we intend to get involved in a small infrastructure project in India. This will encompass all the activities of project right from Concept to Commission including Finance Management. This I feel will give us a good experience in cross country Project Management aspects.
The second vision would be to make use of the teams strengths in sales, IT and the web. We would like to help good Small & Medium Industries in various countries with good products to go global. Our main business would be to act as Business Facilitators in respective countries and also to make use of Technology for the PR aspects of our customers. I would like to see Geomanage have 2 more offices in different locations by next November. Hope this is not too ambitious???
Posted by Atul 11-Sep-09
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