Pawan Kumar Adda – IdeaCast

Aug.21
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Need more data analytics capability over your product’s Mixpanel data?

Posted by in Business Planning and Strategy, Data Analytics, Innovation and Intra-preneurship, My Skills, Pawan Kumar Adda, Product Mangement

Are you one of those product managers or data analysts who always feel the lack of right data or tools when data need arises. Do you ever fell that though you have invested countless hours in designing with the development team to collect product usage data, still when the time comes we feel handcuffed by the limitation of the data tools? Well, I did! Product manager roles come with lot of responsibility, but the most important of all is generating consensus among the various stakeholders. For me, data has always been…read more

Should startups invest in high quality or faster development?

Posted by in Business Planning and Strategy, My Interests and Passions, New Business Development, Operations Management, Pawan Kumar Adda, Pawan Kumar Blog, Pawan Kumar MBA, Pawan Kumar UBC, Product and Services Management

  Sitting in the “Entrepreneur talk” session held at the Sauder Business School, I hear from the CEO and co-founder of Shoeme.ca, one of the Vancouver’s fastest growing e-commerce website, – “large chunk of your investment should be spent on marketing. Technology and product quality can always be concentrated later on.” This statement leaves me astray as it disrupts the fundamental ideology I had developed over the years as a software developer. As an engineer, my focus has been optimizing product quality. What my bachelors education and work experience taught…read more

Jan.06
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WestJet Company Stock Valuation

Posted by in Financial Review and Management, My Business Competencies, My Skills, Pawan Kumar Adda, Pawan Kumar Blog, Pawan Kumar UBC

Company: WestJet Airline Ltd, is a Canadian low-cost carrier, was founded in 1996. It is a publically traded company with around 9600 employees. Its working fleet currently consists of 110 Boeing 737 and Bombardiers aircraft carriers. To cater to expanding service WestJet is in the process of acquiring new aircraft which number to 105 and will be delivered post 2017.   Business model: WestJet currently operates in two models namely – WestJet and WestJet Encore. WestJet started with a low cost air transportation strategy directly competing with Air-Canada. Over the…read more

Dec.03
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Optimizing Bench resource utilization

Posted by in Business Planning and Strategy, My Interests and Passions, Operations Management, Pawan Kumar Adda, Pawan Kumar Blog, Pawan Kumar MBA, Pawan Kumar UBC

IT sector in India contributes about 40% to the Nation’s GDP, employing 25% of Indian workforce. Amongst various advantages that is infused by this sector, it is also known to employ a huge number of employees to constitute its “Bench Force”. So what exactly is Bench Force? Why does a company need one?   Bench force is needed by company to portray its ability to accommodate new projects. Thus, more the number of the employees in Bench Force, faster is the company’s ability to start new projects without actually having…read more

Dec.03
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Analytics is everywhere!

Posted by in Marketing Analysis and Planning, My Interests and Passions

One of major concerns of stake holder of any online venture is the ability of gauge the market penetration of the online venture. Collection and analysis of these metrics expedite the process of devising an alternate strategy to gain the advantage. Personally, I am a hands-on professional. I believe in experiential learning to a very profound and lasting method of learning.  At this stage of my careers, where Sauder Business School is making no less effort in bombarding me with assignments, my search for application of few of this skills…read more

Nov.04
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Industry Interest Statement

Posted by in My Interests and Passions, My Purpose and Direction, Portfolio

September 28, 2018:” … Today was a rather interesting day. We got to look into the market research data of our product we will be launching next month. I am pretty confident that our customers are going to love what they are going to get from this product. It has been an exhausting and exciting six months since the start of this project and I cannot wait for our product to enter the market….” This is what I want to write in my daily journal a few years from now….read more

Sep.11
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Getting an MBA or should I say: “A Pit-stop” before I fly again

Posted by in Portfolio

While I navigate through the Statistics and Accounting lectures , I could not help but retrace my journey and recollect the past chain of changes in the last couple of day. I moved to new city, Vancouver, a city I have never visited before.  Life has been action-packed since then, exploring the city , making new friends , trying to understand and learn a new culture. Life as a Software Developer: I grew up and studied in a busy city, Mumbai, the financial capital of India. Famous all over the…read more

Aug.28
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