Vinay Varma Email & Phone Number

Broadly speaking - I help people and companies equally with a) startup incubation b) regular business needs c) transition management. I currently offer consultancy in the following areas: Corporate Planning: business vision and mission definition, feasibility analysis, business plans, market analysis, marketing plans, campaign plans, financial analysis and budgeting, investment plans, resource and staffing plans, risk analysis and risk mitigation plans, organizational roadmaps.Business Strategy: business solutions strategy, operations strategy, field operations strategy, corporate communications strategy, marketing strategy, collaterals strategy, positioning, branding, channel strategy, re-organization/re-structuring strategy, change management strategy, process engineering strategy.Business Solutions and Business Development: business solutions strategy, solution approach/concept papers, business proposals/tenders, MoUs/agreements/contracts, scope and price negotiations, consultative selling, client relationship management, conflict resolution.Outsourcing: RFPs, SoWs, requirements specifications, terms of engagement/contracts, contract negotiations, partnership blueprints, partnership management, conflict resolution.Fulfillment/Delivery: process engineering/re-engineering, program/project management, SBU incubation and management, resource planning and acquisition, performance monitoring and appraisals, crisis management.Third-Party Services: When required I can help organizations find clients, partners, investors and individual experts using my network and manage the relationship. However, in my current capacity I would not be managing legal/financial aspects of such engagements. I am also interested in partnering for ventures in the areas of book publishing/distribution/retailing, consulting, multimedia, software development, market research and advertising.

In this role my responsibilities covered business solutions, partnership management, organizational processes, resource acquisition and team-building, business analysis, product management and fulfillment planning. I was instrumental in helping the top management operationalize the launch of one of Adayana's strategic business units which represented a shift in a radically new direction for Adayana. This was the most fulfilling role of my professional career and my current focus builds on my experience in this role.

During this brief period I worked as a freelancer in the area of research, primarily as a volunteer for CREED, a knowledge organization of which I was one of the founding members and also for Adayana (then called Trina Systems) for which I was a vendor. I was involved in business development, research and workshops. PS: I stopped offering my research services at this point, although I carried the analytical abilities into business problem solving.

This was my second stint at MICA as a researcher, but the focus of my work was the launch of MICA's journal - MICA Communications Review, whose present avatar is the Journal of Creative Communications, published by Sage. I helped in identifying and building the international editorial team, and independently managed the identification of global experts; soliciting of articles and follow-up. My work also involved managing faculty development workshops and I was instrumental in the launching the curriculum development workshop that contributed to the realignment of the curriculum to industry needs.

During this brief period I worked as a freelancer and volunteer for CREED, a knowledge NGO of which I was one of the founding members. During this period I developed CREED's vision and defined CREED's service line. I also worked on three chapters of an unpublished book 'Stigma and Communication'.

My roles and responsibilities involved developing social and marketing research projects in computing; consolidating IT business information; researching magazine readership; reader feedback and reader lifestyles. The research was used for improving editorial policy; deciding editorial and design choices; and addressing concerns in areas like distribution.My more prominent contributions of this period include: 1. The Decadal Survey of Indian IT industry2. All India Internet Use Survey3. A Study of Cybercafe Culture.4. Reader feedback analysis for CHIP India and Computer Specials.5. Methodology for Reader's Forum.6. E-polls for Network Computing.

My job responsibilites involved research methodology, research proposals, sampling methodology, instrument design, research analysis, report writing, curriculum design and development, course materials development, student assessment and teaching assistance.I was instrumental in introducing narrative analysis, discourse analysis, rhetoric analysis and semiotic analysis as research methods. I also played a key role in defining and re-defining MICA's Rural Research Program and compiled the first Rural Research Report. I also worked on the re-alignment of the curriculum for communication theory, social marketing, market research and research methods to include latest developments in theory.Curriculum Development:1. Rural Research Project Methodology2. Marketing Research3. Research Methodology4. Quantitative Research Methods5. Qualitative Research Methods6. Social Marketing7. Introduction to Communication Theory8. Language, Culture and Communication

Master'S In Mass Communication, Communications, Research, Broadcasting, Advertising, Pr, Journalism, Graphics, Press Laws, Criticism

Panjab University is one of the premier universities of India and has a long standing reputation of academic excellence. This was one.

Ba, English, Hindi, Economics, Political Science, Public Administration

Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College for Men (abbreviated as DAV College) is the largest college in Chandigarh. It is attended by 4000-6000.

Matriculation, English, Hindi, Science, Social Science, Mathematics

Government Model High School, Sector-22 (abbreviated as GMHS-22), now Government Model Senior Secondary School, was the first school.