ASIRT organizes monthly Techday for SPINE Technologies

Association of System Integrators and Retailers in Technology (ASIRT) has hosted a power-packed evening as part of their monthly Techday event where close to hundred members who are business owners of System Integration Companies providing solutions in the fields of IT, Office Automation, Security, Telecom & Power, etc. took part. Apart from innovations in HRMS by Spine Technologies to an insightful panel discussion on accelerating business growth through ASIRT’s flagship Consortium Program, the evening also had a session by Image Scientist Dr Kuljiet Uppaal on “Enhancing your Personal and Professional Impact through PRIM”.

The evening began with an informative presentation on modern HRMS systems by Dharmendra Singh, Head - Channel Sales, SPINE Technologies. As technology and solutions partner to varied sectors and company sizes, SPINE Technologies serves large and SME to MSME clients across 28 different sectors through their versatile offerings. Some of the most challenging sectors, including Hospitals, often have a huge Blue Collar staff functioning in multiple shifts that are often changing. SPINE’s customized offerings to clients like this have made them successful and recognized in the market.

The presentation was followed by an insightful panel discussion of Consortium Captains, hosted by ASIRT Chairman, Jiten Mehta, and Vice-President, Kaustubh Kulkarni. The panellists discussed the developments and challenges of each Consortium, highlighting success stories and sharing experiences of how the initiative was benefiting the members. Designed to assist members to grow professionally through collaboration, the Mentor of networking and business development program has been significantly adding value to entrepreneurs in solving challenges and overcoming hurdles.

Nilesh Kadakia, CEO, Neotech Infocom, said, “The Consortium has proven to be very useful to all the members in meeting people, growing connections and increasing sales with other entrepreneurs and businesses. It has also helped us to cultivate valuable one-to-one connect with key industry peers and that has helped us truly collaborate and build a trust factor. I have personally learned a lot from my Mentors, like the importance of delegation of work and focus on growing the business more.”

Another panellist, Shrenik Jain, Co-Founder - Trend Vision LLP, added, “The Consortium has been an eye-opener and has helped me adopt professionally healthy practices. This is also a great platform to connect with like-minded professionals and share knowledge; it is just not about increasing business which becomes a byproduct of meeting frequently. The Mentor interactions are an added bonus as we can leverage his experience and benefit from his insights. Our mentors have been providing us with valuable solutions to most of our challenges – big or small! ”

Ajay Bhayani, Director, AmbiSure Technologies, said, “The 20 people in our group who have been meeting regularly have today become trusted friends and professional partners in our growth story. Not only have we managed to increase business for each other, but have also developed a ‘brotherhood’ of sorts! Additionally, one of the best takeaways from our Mentor has been about employee management. His advice has been to focus on generating and sustaining business instead of focusing on retaining talent – an advice that has proved beneficial as a lot of our time and energy as small entrepreneurs are invested in managing internal resources.”

Rajiv Warrier, Regional Head, Vitage Systems, added, “Mentors are a valuable segment introduced by the ASIRT Board as part of the Consortium initiative. We have managed to learn quite a few valuable business techniques from the experience that they have got. It is not just the bookish knowledge but it is their experience that talks who has already tasted greater success along with failures and has proven fruitful for us when we are stuck with challenging business decisions.

Jayesh Barodia, Director, Janitor Data, supported Warrier’s opinion and added, “My business has increased, thanks to the support of the Consortium. It is indeed a unique initiative of complementing rather than competing. Through this, I have got 20 partners to do business with me. “Having discussed the benefits, Jiten Mehta and Kulkarni also addressed a few challenges faced by the members and provided recommendations and assured the complete support of the Board, for the initiative.”

The evening then progressed to the most awaited item on the agenda – the Evolve session by Image Scientist, Dr Kuljiet Uppaal on “Enhancing your Personal and Professional Impact through PRIM”. Dr Uppaal has been a reputed image scientist with multiple Records to her credit, including Bharat Book of World Record and India Book of Record for being First Image Scientist in the World. She is also known for her extensive work with women and children. Differentiating her from the other regular ‘image consultants’ is her scientific approach to the issue.

With the session, the action-packed evening finally ended with a cheerful networking dinner.