MY SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE

Challenge: To build a world class team of ~15 electronic engineers from the scratch for an MNC  company at Singapore and execute a challenging multi-site project in 15 months. This include their  hiring, ramp-up and deliver a project.

Selection: Storytelling

After the successful assignment in Sanjose, USA and when we (My family) are about to fly back to our  native country India for good, I got a call from one of my ex-colleague, friend from previous company.  That call was about the above challenging opportunity mentioned as part of “Challenge” section.

So this is about the experience that I went through both personally and professionally at Singapore. It’s  evident that the tool “Storytelling” is an apt one 😊

The video lecture by Lucio Bush, Mars Inc., exactly fits in my above journey as first I need to form a  team of human beings with right attitude, experience, diverse backgrounds and CAUSE right from hiring  phase.

Application: Each of the team member had been handpicked carefully with a right experience and  attitude to put them into the right slot.

Once onboarded I spent lot of productive time in bringing everyone towards the common cause by  explaining them what exact problem that we were trying to handle. It’s also about listening to their  perspective along the journey.

It’s just not about list of project tasks in hitting the timeline of 15 months. It’s about logic, emotional  connection and larger purpose in crossing the line with top quality customer project.

Insight: The team of 15 members is very diverse with a mix of people from Singapore, China, Malaysia,  India and Indonesia. Truly the Asia Pacific 😊

It’s always good to have this team mix of diversity in handling this innovative, technically challenging  project in wireless domain with identified small steps of Fast & Cheap experiments (Learning Launch)  within the team.

Apart from technicality, Imagine how do we typically celebrate the success moments?

The fun used to start with simple question like which restaurant we choose (Indian, Chinese Malaysian  or Continental !!)? Of course we used to huddle together in a room for about 5-10 mins to arrive at a  consensus on this 😊

This project was a huge success in the end and first time silicon success and lot of mass production and  so the profits to the company. This is an example of when we give freedom to the team with a serious  common cause (right Storytelling), wonders do happen naturally!!

MY SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE

Approach: Storytelling coupled with Visualization would have been more effective in this mission of  forming a team & successful execution. Visualization ahead in the game with respect to work  assignments and proper work load would have been an even nicer experience without stress in the  system.

Best Regards,

Keith Khan


MY SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE Challenge : To build a world class team of ~15 electronic engineers from the scratch for an MNC company at Singapore and execute a challenging multi - site project in 15 months . This include their hiring , ramp - up and deliver a project . Selection : Storytelling After the successful assignment in Sanjose , USA and when we ( My family ) are about to fly back to our native country India for good , I got a call from one of my ex - colleague , friend from previous company . That call was about the above challenging opportunity mentioned as part of “ Challenge ” section . So this is about the experience that I went through both personally and professionally at Singapore . It ’s evident that the tool “ Storytelling ” is an apt one 😊 The video lecture by Lucio Bush , Mars Inc. , exactly fits in my above journey as first I need to form a team of human beings with right attitude , experience , diverse backgrounds and CAUSE right from hiring phase . Application : Each of the team member had been handpicked carefully with a right experience and attitude to put them into the right slot . Once onboarded I spent lot of productive time in bringing everyone towards the common cause by explaining them what exact problem that we were trying to handle . It ’s also about listening to their perspective along the journey . It ’s just not about list of project tasks in hitting the timeline of 15 months . It ’s about logic , emotional connection and larger purpose in crossing the line with top quality customer project . Insight : The team of 15 members is very diverse with a mix of people from Singapore , China , Malaysia , India and Indonesia . Truly the Asia Pacific 😊 It ’s always good to have this team mix of diversity in handling this innovative , technically challenging project in wireless domain with identified small steps of Fast & Cheap experiments ( Learning Launch ) within the team . Apart from technicality , Imagine how do we typically celebrate the success moments ? The fun used to start with simple question like which restaurant we choose ( Indian , Chinese Malaysian or Continental ! ! ) ? Of course we used to huddle together in a room for about 5 - 10 mins to arrive at a consensus on this 😊 This project was a huge success in the end and first time silicon success and lot of mass production and so the profits to the company . This is an example of when we give freedom to the team with a serious common cause ( right Storytelling ) , wonders do happen naturally ! ! MY SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE Approach : Storytelling coupled with Visualization would have been more effective in this mission of forming a team & successful execution . Visualization ahead in the game with respect to work assignments and proper work load would have been an even nicer experience without stress in the system . Best Regards , Keith Khan