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Manmeet Kaur Wilkhoo has been appointed as Head HR – Operations at NIIT MTS , marking a significant addition to the organization’s leadership team. In her new role, Manmeet will focus on driving operational excellence across HR functions while strengthening core processes and enabling business outcomes through people-centric and data-driven HR practices at NIIT MTS. In this capacity, Manmeet is passionate about enhancing employee experience, building scalable HR operations, and aligning HR service delivery with organizational objectives. Her mandate at NIIT MTS, improving governance frameworks, and leveraging data to support informed decision-making across the business. With over two decades of experience, Manmeet brings deep expertise across HR Operations, HR Business Partnering, and People & Culture. Her career spans diverse industries, including aviation and technology, where she has worked with leading organizations such as CoreStack , IndiGo Airlines , GENPACT , and Bharti A...

By Sandeep Jain , CEO at Value Unlocked Most strategy offsites don’t fail because leaders lack intelligence, data, or ambition. They fail because everyone in the room is already invested in an answer. Hierarchies linger, unspoken agendas surface, and conversations orbit familiar ground. The result is motion without progress—alignment on paper, ambiguity in reality. Breakthrough strategy requires more than presence. It requires neutrality. The most effective offsites introduce an external facilitator not to add opinions, but to remove friction. A neutral catalyst shifts the room from advocacy to inquiry, from positional debate to collective clarity. History offers a useful parallel. The greatest breakthroughs—scientific or strategic—rarely emerge from closed loops of agreement. They emerge when assumptions are surfaced, questioned, and reassembled with discipline. Below is a leadership playbook for why external facilitation unlocks the “unstuck” factor in strategy offsites: 1. Neutralit...

-An exclusive interview with Mr VINOD DUA , Strategic Director, Pfarmex Healthtech , Paulomi Roy Q1. What challenges do companies face in handling insights today? The biggest challenge is fragmentation—scientific data sits across reports, decks, and informal channels. Insights often arrive too late to guide the decisions. The data is treated as a task rather than an asset. Despite heavy investments, less than 20% of insights shape strategy. The challenge is not the information scarcity but interpretation lags. Q2. Why is Medical Affairs (MA) becoming so critical now? MA is the scientific conscience of an organization but has often been limited to compliance in India. When empowered, it bridges clinical outcomes, post-marketing evidence, and field learnings. In branded generics market, the medical narrative is a key differentiator. Q3. What makes Pfarmex’s approach unique? PfarmexTM brings structured intelligence to an area traditionally driven by individual interpretation. It blends ev...

Every transformational journey begins with clarity. For Prabhjot Singh Nayyar, that clarity came from years spent on warehouse floors, in logistics control rooms, and in the heart of real-world supply chain operations. Those experiences shaped a simple belief: technology delivers impact only when it aligns with the realities of the business. When Prabhjot founded SCM Champs, he set a bold vision: We will not be generalists who try to do everything. We will be specialists who deliver SAP Supply Chain excellence with precision, passion, and accountability . He wanted to create a firm where client success and client happiness are inseparable—and a culture where employees feel valued, empowered, and challenged by meaningful work. Seeing firsthand how siloed systems and misaligned processes cripple performance, Prabhjot built SCM Champs with a purpose: to champion operational excellence by unlocking the true value of SAP’s Digital Supply Chain ecosystem. What began as an entrepreneurial l...

Saurabh Kansal has joined Prosperr.io, an AI-powered tax and payroll infrastructure platform, as Assistant Vice President – Revenue. Based in Bengaluru, Saurabh will lead Prosperr.io’s revenue charter across enterprise sales, partnerships, and go-to-market execution, as the company scales its B2B offerings across India and global markets. With over 21 years of experience, Saurabh brings a strong track record of building and scaling revenue engines across Telecom, HR Tech, SaaS, Agentic AI, and EdTech. His career spans leadership roles at Reliance Infocomm, Naukri.com, LinkedIn, Leena AI, and Univo Education, where he has consistently delivered against ambitious ARR and quota targets across early-stage and high-growth organisations. Commenting on the appointment, Saibal Biswas , Chief Growth Officer at Prosperr.io, said, “Saurabh brings a rare combination of zero-to-one and scale-up revenue leadership, which is exactly what Prosperr.io needs at this phase of growth. As we deepen ente...

“How contextual intelligence transforms unstructured data, complex documents, and workflows into precise, role-aware answers.” Context is what transforms AI from a generic responder into an intelligent partner that understands intent, purpose, and nuance. Without context, even the most advanced model behaves like a search engine with no history—capable of giving correct information but often irrelevant to the user’s real need. In the enterprise, this gap becomes costly. A sales manager asking about “pipeline health” needs dynamic, role-aware insights—not textbook definitions. When AI can interpret intent based on persona, history, and content, responses become far more accurate, relevant, and trustworthy. Please read the full article – https://lnkd.in/gBgywTXg About Siva Shanmugam Sivakumar Shanmugam (Siva) is the Vice President of Product Management for the Data 360 team at Salesforce , where he leads the Product Management organization for Data 360 in the India Development Center (I...

For over two decades, India’s roads have been quietly transformed by a leader who believes that safety is not enforced—it is engineered. Mr. Amit Arvind Thatte , Founder of Kataline Limited (formerly Kataline Infra-Products Pvt. Ltd.), has spent more than 25 years at the intersection of science, engineering, and driver behaviour, reimagining how roads communicate with those who use them. His work is grounded not in theory, but in relentless on-ground execution—across Himalayan passes, monsoon-lashed coastal highways, dense urban corridors, and high-speed expressways. Long before advanced road marking technologies became mainstream in India, Amit championed solutions such as cold plastic markings, wet-night visible systems, long-life materials, audio-tactile lines, and permeable pavements. His approach was simple yet powerful: reduce uncertainty and improve speed calming measures for road users, and accidents reduce naturally. “Most accidents aren’t caused by speed alone,” he often not...