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About Workshop:
This
workshop aims to mentor and develop proposal preparation teams to arrive
at proposals that meet the objectives in spite of the challenges related
to turnaround time, solution complexity, competition, pricing,
differentiators etc. Focus of the workshop is to make the participants
understand the big picture through proposal background, drivers and
expectations so that they can come out with a compelling proposition to
the customer. This workshop discusses various challenges and common
mistakes with regard to proposal preparation and submission and ways to
conquer the same. The workshop is delivered as class room training with
emphasis on experiential discussions, samples and case studies. |
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Topics
1. What is a proposal?
2. What are the challenges faced in preparing it?
3. Proposal submission process
4. Solution design
5. Structuring and packaging a proposal
6. Addressing the challenges
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Topic |
Coverage |
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What is a
proposal? How the proposal request originates? What follows
the proposal? |
Medium |
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What are
the terminologies like RFI, RFP, PO, LOE, Contract, SOW etc.
stand for? |
Medium |
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Why many
of our proposals do not click? What are the customers'
expectations out of any proposal? |
High |
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Who are
the stake holders that I should take care to make the
proposal successful? What are their expectations? |
High |
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What
should be the structure of proposal preparation team? |
Medium |
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What are
the steps followed while preparing the proposal? What are
the activities done? |
Medium |
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What are
the recommended practices followed while performing the
above activities? |
High |
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How to go
about deciding the solution and approach? What are the best
practices followed? |
High |
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How to
estimate the effort, resource, schedule and cost of the
proposal? What are the best practices followed? |
High |
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How
should we structure the proposal? What are the various
sections that go in a proposal? |
Medium |
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What are
the good practices that make the above sections effective? |
High |
Faculty Profiles:
Prabhakara
H R
Out of over
20 years of IT experience, Prabhakara has utilized his last 9 years
working with Infosys witnessing it grow from few millions to a billion
dollar company. During his stay, Prabhakara has delivered software to
global customers in various technologies through Infosys' Global
Delivery Model (GDM). Apart from heading a delivery unit of over 300
people, Prabhakara has participated in Infosys' internal journey to
achieve CMM level 4 and 5.
T. S.
Krishnamurthy
Krishnamurthy was associated with Infosys for over 17 years. In his long
innings with Infosys he had served in various capacities from Software
Engineer, to Project Manager, to Divisional Manager while the
organization grew from a strength of 50 to 33,000. As the head of a
delivery unit of 600 people, he serviced several fortune 500 clients
around the globe.
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What is not in the scope of this workshop
·
Discussion on any one specific technology solution
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Discussion about different estimation methods that are followed
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Beautification of the proposal, refining the proposal language and
format
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Pricing
the proposal in response to the competition
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Walking
through one “winning” proposal
Who gets the maximum benefit out of this workshop?
Person with IT experience of over 4 years involved in submission of at
least one proposal. Person with more than 2-3 years exclusive experience
in proposal submission may find this workshop as a thought consolidation
exercise.
Venue:
Will Confirm to the Registered Participants
Date: Friday 13th Feb 09 (9:00am
- 5:30pm)
Fee Details:
Rs.3500.00 + 12.36%
Service Tax, Per Participant
Discounts:
Confirm with advance payment for 3 or more
participants to avail 10% discount.
REGISTRATION:
Please confirm your seats by emailing to
workshop@knowledgeworksindia.com.We
would confirm the registrations by mail. Download the
Registration Form
and send us back duly filled with payment.
**Terms
& Conditions
Note:
After registering to the workshop, participants will receive a web
questionnaire. It is imperative to answer this for effective
customization of the workshop.
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