Change the way you do

your business

Dr. Pavan Soni

Innovation Evangelist and Founder
Inflexion Point Consulting
Innovation.evangelist@gmail.com
www.pavansoni.com
 About Inflexion Point
✓ A boutique consulting firm
✓ Mathematically speaking, Inflexion
Point refers to the point on a curve
where the sign of curvature changes
✓ Andy Grove, the founder of Intel, 102 workshops
popularized the term in his book ‘Only
10*10*2 lectures
the Paranoid Survives’ and that’s the
210 articles
seed of inspiration
10002 lives touched
Programmes for the Enterprise and SMEs
Enterprise Small and Medium Enterprise

~ Strategic management ~ Succession planning

~ Leadership development ~ Strategic thinking
~ Building Innovation Culture ~ Business branding

~ Design Thinking ~ Professionalism in family business

~ Managing technology and innovation ~ Organization design
~ Lean Product Development ~ Bringing systems and processes

~ Creative problem solving ~ Communications and soft skills

~ Employee engagement ~ Employee motivation

* Pyramid represents the levels in the organization

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 Programmes for Enterprise
(90 min. to two-day programmes)
Strategic • Strategic thinking Technology • Managing technology and intellectual
property in the business
management
• Industry analysis- PESTEL, 5 Forces, SWOT and • Technology roadmapping and disruptive
• Positioning and differentiation
innovation innovation

• General management functions • Rapid iteration

Leadership Lean product • Experimentation types and approaches
• Setting vision, mission, goals and values
development • Delegation and motivation development • Blending lean into firm’s routines

Creative • Problem exploration

Innovation • Setting routines and capabilities
• Ten practices of world’s most innovative problem • Solution vegetation
culture firms solving • Best case solution

• Purpose sensing
Design • Design principles of empathy, iteration, Employee • Personal creativity
thinking
customer centricity engagement • Building creative teams
• Building buyer personas

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 Programmes for Enterprise
(90 min. to two-day programmes)
• Importance of delegation • Delegation and authority
Succession • Identifying and grooming the right talent
Organization • Workflow management
planning • Selling your business to next in line. design • Reporting structure

• Think like a CEO, while running your Systems and • Moving from personal styles to process
Strategic business for management
thinking • Setting goals, vision and objectives. processes • Hiring to retirement process maps

• Communication
• Importance of brand creation and
Business leverage Soft skills • Negotiation
branding • Social media adoption • Teaming and involvement

• Purpose sensing
• Importance of ethics and long term Employee • Personal creativity
Professionalism thinking in business engagement • Building creative teams
• Balancing the personal and professional

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Corporate clients (indicative )

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 Startups (indicative )

Startup consultancy around:

Learning solutions and labs
✓ Strategic planning for K-12 space
✓ Market research and user profiling
✓ Product design and development Buying and selling of
✓ Technology roadmapping refurbished electronics
✓ Right hiring and teaming Parent – teacher dialogue
✓ Pricing and Go to Market models for pre-schools and day care
✓ Financial accounting
Community engagement
✓ Pitching and securing investments and services for seniors

Partner organizations
For-cause marketing on
social media channels

Health and fitness

consultant.
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 Programmes for Startups (workshops and annual
engagements)
• Strategic thinking Innovation • Managing technology and intellectual
Strategic • Setting vision, mission, goals and property in the business
values and
planning • Technology roadmapping
• Business models and value chains technology • Disruptive innovation

• Types of pricing models

• Market segmentation and sizing Pricing and
Market • Developing buyer personas
• Channel identification and go to
go to market market choices
research • Product positioning • Partnerships and profit sharing

• Pitch presentation
• Value proposition design
Product Pitching and • Elevator pits
• Feature development and product
development planning investment • Investor meetings
• Valuations
• Product-market fit

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Executive education
✓ Guest lectures on Innovation AND
Creativity for Executive MBA (2010-
2016)
✓ Elective course on ‘Managing
Business’ for Young India Fellowship
Programme (2017)
✓ Elective course on ‘Technology and
Innovation Management’ for core
MBA programme (2008-12)
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✓ Elective course on ‘Creativity and
Liberal Arts’ for core MBA students
(2008-10)
✓ Course on ‘innovation management’
and ‘product management’ for the
core MBA students (2007-10)
Subjects:
1. Innovation management
2. Creativity and liberal arts
3. Entrepreneurship and new business venture
4. Strategic planning and management
5. Managing hi-tech business
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 Video testimonials Videos on YouTube Partner organizations

On Entrepreneurship at IIMB Institutions and Innovation at HP On growing family business

On Innovation Culture at 3M Innovation Vocabulary at Bhive On women and creativity at

Intel

On Technologies at Bosch Idea Management at CII TEDx Talks on Creativity

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About Pavan Soni
• PhD from IIM Bangalore (Corporate Strategy & Policy)
• Former Innovation Evangelist at Wipro (6 years)
• Only Indian to be shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business
Book of the Year Award- 2016
• Bachelor of Engineering- MBM Engineering College Jodhpur (Branch Topper)
and PGDIE- NITIE Mumbai
• Recipient of ‘On-the-Job Achiever Award’- Lakshya- CII Mumbai in 2007 for
the work on Innovation
• Recipient of Innovation Excellence Award at 5th Indira Innovation Summit in
2012 www.PavanSoni.com
• Associated with Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Bangalore Chamber of
Industry and Commerce and CII linkedin.com/in/pavansoni
• Columnist at YourStory, India’s leading magazine for entrepreneurs
• Speaker at TEDx BITS Goa, SIBM Pune and HewlettPackardBangalore facebook.com/drpavansoni
• 21 Articles and Paper Published in National & International Journals
@Pavan_Soni
• Contributed book chapters in three published books on innovation
youtube.com/user/innov6
READING | WRITING | TEACHING | COACHING
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