One Contest; three winners; six sources of guiding light

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 26 Desember 2013 | 20.07

The Microsoft Completely Boss Challenge was launched on 24th April 2013 as India's most ambitious contest for mid-sized business leaders. Not only did it give the mid market sector a chance to highlight some outstanding businesses within it, but to go beyond their existing capabilities and win a five year growth plan put in place by six great leaders. To put it simply-  One contest. Three winners. Six sources of guiding light. Namely, Microsoft, CRISIL, DOOR, Moneycontrol.com, Webchutney.com and Linkedin. While Microsoft will help the winning companies face their technology challenges, CRISIL will help in knowledge, DOOR in business consulting, Moneycontrol.com with media, Webchutney.com in marketing and Linkedin with securing right talent.

The contest was held over 7 cities with the sole purpose of celebrating and rewarding outstanding business leaders from India's thriving mid-market sector. It  started with registered participants being evaluated on a quiz on knowledge and application-based questions, which was assigned weightage by QuizWorks. Phase 2, which was City Prelims, invited 50 selected participants/city for live events across Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai.

After an intensive and competitive contest, 3 regional winners from each of the 7 cities were chosen as finalists to participate in the Grand Finale that took place on 26th June in front of the esteemed jury at The Lalit, New Delhi. The Grand Finale in itself was a highly zealous event as each of the 21 finalists conveyed prodigious elevator pitches that made it difficult to choose the three winners!

For the CEO's of Neptunus Power Plant Services, Rohini Minerals and Sort India Enviro Solution/Pastiwala.com, making their way through over 2500 CEO entries, 350 participants, three rounds of competition and 21 regional winners could not have been easy.  But they were the three companies that eventually stood out and won the grand prize- a chance to transform their business under the guidance of six of the best mentors across verticals. These mentors will study these companies seriously and come up with comprehensive five year growth plan.  A journey similar to their own of setting up their companies from scratch with hardly any backing and coming out on top of their game.

Mumbai based Neptunus Power Plant services was set up by Mr.Uday Purohit at the age of 38 after he gave up a secure job as an overseas marine engineer. Using his experience , he turned the company around to become a successful solutions provider and electromotive diesel engine manufacturer for engine based industrial and marine power plants.

In Pashtiwala.com's case, it was actually the age old business of the 'Kabaadivala', or door to door junk and scrap collector that they gave an extremely large scale twist to. Every day they send out close to 30 jeeps all across Baroda to collect anything that's recyclable from residents, pay them on the spot and reuse the material in a commercially successful way with the help of a strong back end and marketing team.

For the two partners who founded Hyderabad based Rohini Minerals, turning a childhood friendship and their love for chicken into a successful hatcheries business meant a lot more than just having 'Reddy' as a common surname. Both quit their jobs as employees of another poultry company to set up their own. Bankers gave them a hard time with loans at the start, but today finances are not a struggle thanks to their innovative ways of producing better poultry!

Having come this far the future can only be bright for these three Completely Boss Challenge winners. Not only will they have the hands on involvement of the best mentors in the business, but a chance to grow their customer base, turn any shelved plans into reality, start new departments that they've been wanting too and maybe even jump to the next level or in fact skip a few levels and go straight to the top of their sector in the next five years. If that does happen, then this was the turning point!



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