Taking India to the World – truly the tagline holds true for Aditya Birla Group since it carries the legacy of taking Indian potential and Indian products to people all around the world. The ABG group is a multi-ethnic and multidimensional group operating in 36 countries across 6 continents, apart from the one where even light finds it difficult to find its way. From the smallest of the smallest items to large sectors like cement and aluminium are part of every person’s daily routine which is subconsciously known to every person and impacts millions of lives. Along with taking people under its umbrella, ABG truly encompasses its ideals and mission of “reaching the sun”. As far as I can remember ABG has been a part of all of my firsts – from school days to even now, if there is any perishable moment then ABG’s products are present in the moment. Such experiences do not monetarily add in numbers of ABG but have definitely made a mark in everyone’s life, simple reason of why ABG has been in the market for decades . Being an automobile enthusiast, I’ve always been attracted to everything moving on wheels. It is astounding for me that ABG had a part there as well, being the largest carbon black producer, an important element in tyre manufacturing, the basic load bearer of my beloved vehicles. The rising sun in the logo is an indication of the aims and visions to be a premium global conglomerate with a clear focus on each of the businesses.
Part B
Rising to the moment and showing your abilities is what every individual strives for, so that one can carve out the rising star in them. And this is the similar situation where also I had found myself. Just after my college and before joining job, I was part time working in my recently opened family business ( coaching institute) which at that point of time was not so well to do. And as happens, the business was dependent on a handful of people who left, leaving the business to turmoil. I also started working in the business thereafter and having done engineering with well to do analytical and problem solving skills, it was easy to understand the business had no specific structure. Hence I took the charge of streamlining the complete process. Following were some changes that I initiated – Cost reduction by removing unnecessary lead generation subscriptions, creating a complete new database with the past information and streamlined the whole operations which actually helped in improving student enrollment numbers thereafter and was easy to back date after the database. The operations that was adopted by me was having schedules and classes according to the upcoming examinations where enrollments would be high and instead of creating separate batches, a common batch was created for all the students having common topics and gradually shifting to course specific batches. This would reduce the cost as well as save time from the end of faculty as well. And this system was cyclic in manner and from one point where the institute had no specific structure, it now had one cyclic batch which kept running throughout the year and improved the inflow and stabilized the business.
As mentioned in the above instance from my life, I maintained my calm and composed attitude and used whatever learned during engineering, also relating this kind of situation to operations research which was part of the curriculum in engineering. Hence using the existing knowledge to improve and adapt to situations is the reason why I rose in this situation and as a person overall.
This could definitely be one of the Moments where I stood facing a turmoil kind of situation and with the support of my parents and belief in me, could try actually imply the knowledge gathered for a mechanical setup and use it in a completely different industry (teaching) and returned with improved results.
