Disha Magazine Trial Copy

Dedicated to

Jyothi Ramachandrula Disha 2017

&

Priyanka Rastogi Disha 2020

DISHA JOURNEY At HP, encouraging women to grow and progress in their career is of great importance and this can be seen through the various initiatives and one of them is Disha.

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isha which started in 2017 is a part of the DE&I story at HP India. As the name suggests, Disha means “Direction” and this program is to elevate, increase readiness and advance the working women at middle levels for leadership roles.

The program which spans over six months is a blending approach of learning experiences, enhanced leadership attributes and expansive thinking.

Throughout the six months program, the participants go through Classroom trainings, individual activities, group/network activities, skill practice and application, discussion forums which are supported by Brain Candy.

Icons from orientation pdf

During this learning period, the program is structured into various program elements that develop management skills and increase the exposure of the women at HP.

Here is to Disha giving Direction and perspective to many more women at HP!

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The Pillars of Disha Program

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o begin with, it is pivotal for the participants to identify the areas of strength and development opportunities which they learn through the ‘Lead@HP 360°’.

Based on these results, an ‘Individual Development Planning’ program is conducted wherein goals are created for development with a plan to achieve them. Through these trainings, it not only gives the participants a baseline to measure their growth throughout their journey, but also a support and motivation to act on the plan and goals put to place by them.

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fter identifying the goals, the participants go through a program for ‘Knowledge and Skill Building’ which is conducted through monthly events that are targeted at developing management and leadership skills.

Knowledge and Skill Building

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ith the above trainings, the participants go through a program of ‘Coaching and Networking’.

These are regular events designed to broaden the participants’ network and giving access to helpful resources which works as guide for them throughout the program.

This helps the participants to increase their ability to identify knowledgeable resources where they gain guidance and build a network, to be known and be sponsored for opportunities.

Lead@HP 360° & Individual Development Planning

The learnings from these events are put into application through a business project. Through these learnings, it gives the participants a deep understanding of business / financial insight and develops the skills of design thinking and problem skills.

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hroughout the six months program, the participants go through classroom trainings, individual activities, group/ network activities, skill practice and application, discussion forums which are supported by Brain Candy.

The participants are grouped into various groups and every project assigned to a team comes from different areas of working which will help the team to grow in that aspect. The project brief is shared with the respective teams which gives an insight into the problem and the expected outcome from the team towards the project in hand.

The trainings the team receives during the program create avenues for the participants to apply the knowledge and skills into the projects that get assigned to them. The outcome of the projects by each team is the focus throughout the Disha program and we get to see how it elevates and pushes the participants to bring out their best.

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The cohorts learn the concept of Project pitch which gives them the training on how to sell their project ideas to the higher management levels in the most creative storytelling manner. As part of this journey, there are mock presentations presented by each team in front of mock juries which gives the teams areas they need to focus on for improvement. There are two rounds of a mock jury. In the first round, the mock jury consists of members from the Disha alumni and in the second round, the panel consists of mid-level leaders.

Applications Learnt

Through these mock presentations, it helps the cohorts to get a feel and understanding of how the jury will be on the Graduation day. Through these mock presentations, the teams are elevated and pushed to bring out their best.

Following all the above trainings which the cohorts receive over the six months, they apply the techniques into their projects which are presented in front of an actual jury on the Graduation day, which is the main highlight of this day. The team that sells their idea with the best outcome, problem-solving solutions, and ticks all the right boxes will be declared as the winning team in the Disha program.

During the Graduation ceremony, various leaders address the participants and have a time where there is an interactive session with the leaders.

A platform that elevates and builds the confidence in women to push boundaries can be seen through the Disha program. The results are evident as many of the participants over the years have scaled to greater heights and have had growth in their respective careers.

Here is to Disha giving Direction and perspective to many more women at HP!

6 Graduation Ceremony

YEARBOOK

2017

COHORT OF 2017

AJITHA JOSEPH

ANITHA NAGARAJ

ANURADHA ASURI

ARCHANA DIXIT

BEENU LAAD

BHAVANI VENKATESHA

DEEPANWITA BAKSHI

JEEJI MOHANDAS

JEHANZEB POL

JYOTHI RAMACHANDRULA

JYOTI MALIK

KAVITHA B A

KOMALA SEETHARAMAIAH

MARIZA UPPAL ANUP

MEETU JOHNSTONE

NAZIA MUJEEB

NEELAM SARKAR

NITHYA SOLOMON

PADMINI BABU

RACHANA RAVINDRAN

COHORT OF 2017

ROHI CHOPRA

ROOPA R

RUBY TOMAR

SANGEETA RATH

SHANTHYPRIYA K

SHEEBA PRABHAKARAN

SHOBHA SELVARAJ

SHRADHA MAHESWARI

SHRUTHA K P

SHUBHA RAMACHANDRAN

SUPRIYA RAO

SUMITA BHATIA VIJH

SUPRIYA ADIGA

SUSHMA JOHN

SWETHA JAYAPPA

TEJASWINI SITARAM

VARUNA AGNIHOTRI

Disha Graduation Ceremony 2017 D

isha which means ‘Directio n’ in Hindi, is a program which was initiated to encourage, challenge and provide a network for women to pursue a career in leadership.

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tory of Disha was shared by Nanditha Seetharamaiah & Kathleen O’Neill.

Through the program, 24% of the cohort members had seen a change in their respective roles which exhibited the success of the program.

Disha Graduation Ceremony was held on 15th November 2017 at The Hotel Royal Orchid, Bangalore.

The celebration was attended by the 37 cohort members, project sponsors, mentors, India leadership team along with the India HR and the DE&I core team.

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nspirational keynote message was addressed by Sumeer Chandra, India MD, on how an increased number of women leaders could drive innovation for HP. To add a flavor of fun and candidness, there was a rapid-fire round at the end of the discussion for the panelists.

Projects At A Glance TEAM VIRYA

TEAM SAHAPADA

TEAM SYHO

TEAM NAUTICAL STARS

Quarterly Business Review Performance Dashboard

Transforming Customer Support

Fostering a Growth Mindset Culture in the Company

Objective is to create a concise interactive quarterly dashboard (executive summary) for senior executives.

Objective is to create a ‘single’ model that can provide ‘insights’ across different global functions to enable R&D to take ‘data’ driven actions.

Objective is to create an Ideal 1:1 conversation that enables growth-mindset.

Objective is to create crisp messaging, solution offering from HPI product and services to suite to the Digital Transformation trend.

Sponsor: Stacy Walsh Springs Mentor: Sundar Arumugham

Sponsor: Ashok Waran Mentor: Gemma Burman & Madhusoodhana Rao

Sponsor: Deepak Bhootra Mentor: Vinay Chandrashekar & Nanditha Seetharamaiah

Sponsor: Rajat Mehta Mentor: Rajat Mehta

Team: Bhavani Venkatesha Kavitha B A Nithya Solomon Sheeba Prabhakaran Swetha Jayappa

Team: Anuradha Asuri Ajitha Joseph Shrutha KP Nazia Mujeeb Jehanzeb Pol Tejaswini Sitaram

Team: Archana Dixit Beenu Laad Jyothi Ramachandrula Meetu Johnstone Sumita Vijh Sushma John

Team: Deepanwita Bakshi Mariza Uppal Anup Neelam Sarkar Ruby Tomar Shubha Ramachandran

Digital Transformation TRENDS, IMPACT & STRATEGY

TEAM WIN - WIN

TEAM MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

TEAM IDA

Training Effectiveness Improvement

Make HP India Best Place to Work

Intelligence Driven Automation

Objective is to create a seamless entry of new hire to better meet the needs of the customer from Day -1.

Objective is to propose 3 recommendations with pilot execution to make HP Inc India the best place to work.

Objective is to build a Cognitive Automation Framework to Ideate, Engage & Implement automation opportunities.

Sponsor: Manish Batra Mentor: Sadat Fatima

Sponsor: Mona Jain & Sowjanya Reddy Mentor: Jaysheel Anand & Sanjeev Pathak

Sponsor: Bobby Jutley Mentor: Jayaraman Krishnamurthy, Arpita Chowdhury & Harish Saragadam

Team: Jeeji Mohandas Jyoti Malik Shobha Selvaraj Supriya Adiga

Team: Rohi Chopra Roopa R Sangeeta Rath Shanthypriya K Shradha Maheshwari Varuna Agnihotri

Team: Anitha Nagaraj Komala Seetharamaiah Padmini Babu Rachana Ravindran Sripriya B Rao

TEAM SAHAPADA

Ajitha Joseph, Anuradha Asuri, Jehanzeb Pol, Nazia Mujeeb, Shrutha K P & Tejaswini Sitaram

TEAM SYHO

Archana Dixit, Beenu Laad, Jyothi Ramachandrula, Meetu Johnstone, Sumita Vijh & Sushma John

2018

COHORT OF 2018

ACHALA N M

ANJANA VISVESWARAN

ANKITA KHANDELWAL

ARCHANA MUDGAL

DEEPA BUDHRANI

DEEPA SESHAN

DIKSHITHA CHANDRASHEKAR

HEMALATHA B KEMPANNA

JYOTI JAIN

KUSUM BHATT

LAKSHMI VINAY

LALITHA P G

LEENA LIMAYE

LOULI KAIPURATH

MEGHASHREE MUKHERJEE

MONIKA WADHWA

NAMRATHA NAIK

ABHINETHRI NAGENDRA

ANUPAMA REDDY

DIVYA MANU

COHORT OF 2018

NASREEN BANU

NISHA MATHEW

POOJA VERNEKAR

PREETHY VARGHESE

PRIYA RAGHAVENDRAN

RADHIKA SEN

RASHMI SOMAYAJI

ROWENA COELHO

SANJANA SRIKANT

SATHYA KALAIVANI

SEEMA AJEY KHANAPURI

SHARMAINE DEY

SHILPA VONTARI

SIVAGAMI VELUSAMY

SUHASHINI RAMACHANDRAN

SUMA RAO .D N

SUMITRA ETHIRAJU

SWAGATA GOEL

TARUNPREET NAYYAR

USHA UPPINAKUDRU

VASUDHA RAO J

SUSHMA SHENOY

Disha Graduation Ceremony 2018 The ceremony started off with a congratulatory address from our CEO, Dion Weisler and emphasized the importance of leveraging and empowering women leadership at HP.

Nanditha Seetharamaiah, Program Lead, shared success of the Disha journey since the pilot in 2017.

Disha had grown by 54% and through the graduation of batch of 2018, added another 9.5% where the cohorts have experienced promotion or role expansion.

The 2nd Disha Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday, 28th September 2018 at The Shangri La Hotel, Bangalore.

The ceremony was attended by the 42 cohort members, project sponsors, mentors, India leadership team along with the India HR and the DE&I core team.

Sumeer Chandra, Country MD, emphasized on leadership roles at all levels and it was stemmed from three things – passion, belief in oneself, and to take advantage of one’s straengths.

The leaders on the panel also shared their personal experiences and various challenges faced by women at the workplace.

A platform for sharing ideas and insights on leveraging HP as a brand was moderated by Nazia Mujeeb.

Yet another highlight of the event was the Teachable Point of View session led by Sowjanya Reddy, Country HR Head. She shared her values and experiences which defined her as a leader.

Projects At A Glance TEAM POWER PRINT SQUAD

TEAM MERAKI

TEAM LAZARUS AWAKENERS

Barriers to Printing

HP IT – Hiring for Future

APJ DOA Claim Reduction

Objective was to build Metrics to indicate health of over all VAT process.

Objective was to create an insight-based framework to help identify and categorize top print/scan barriers to R&D.

Objective was to Shorten hiring period, increase relevant applicants & infuse domain expertise & create visibility within the organization.

Objective was to bring out cost reduction, improved TCE and Net Promoter scores through reduction in DOA volumes.

Sponsor: Subha Swaminathan Mentor: Manish Naramdeo

Sponsor: Ashok Waran Mentor: Shruti Jain, Sreekumar Ashok

Sponsor: Vineet Gupta Mentor: Prachi Jovial

Sponsor: Vijay Mark Rao Mentor: Nithya Solomon

Team: Ankita Khandelwal Louli Kaipurath Kalaivani Sathya Namratha Naik Nasreen Banu Sanjana Srikant

Team: Dikshitha Chandrashekar Hemalatha B Kempanna Lalitha, P G Radhika Sen Shilpa Vontari Sivakami Velusamy

Team: Deepa Budhrani Deepa Seshan Divya Manu Meghashree Mukherjee Rashmi Somayaji Seema Ajey Khanapuri

Team: Anjana Visveswaran Leena Limaye Monika Wadhwa Rowena Isabella Coelho Sharmaine Dey Swagata Goel

TEAM TAX KLANNS Enhancing Overall VAT Process Efficiency

TEAM THE AMAZONS

TEAM AMAZE

TEAM ROCK “IT” SPROCKET

E2E Process Mapping of Spare Part Lifecycle & Compliance - SEAMM

Strategy to Increase Adoption of Social Media Platform - APJ Region

Create Market for Sprocket & Discover Different Sales Channels

Objective was to standardize field holding time and reduce overhead cost, parts return post FHT and improve compliance.

Objective was to create awareness to improve adoption across different digital platform and increase India Web NPS by 50%.

Objective was to develop solution & strategy to achieve Targeted sale of Sprockets (existing & upcoming variants).

Sponsor: Vikas Singh Mentor: Manjunath T S

Sponsor: Manish Batra Mentor: Saroj Pathak

Sponsor: Sumeer Chandra Mentor: Manoj Kapoor

Team: Achala N M Anupama Reddy Preethy Varghese Suhashini Ramachandran Sumitra Ethiraju TarunPreet Nayyar

Team: Archana Mudgal Jyoti Jain Nisha Mathew Pooja Suresh Vernekar Priya Raghavendran Suma D N Rao

Team: Abhinethri K Kusum Bhatt Lakshmi Vinay Ojha Sushma Shenoy Usha Uppinakudru Vasudha Rao

TEAM AMAZONS

Achala N M, Anupama Reddy, Preethy Varghese, Suhashini Ramachandran, Sumitra Ethiraju, TarunPreet Nayyar

TEAM Anjana Visveswaran, Leena Limaye, Monika LAZARUS Wadhwa, Rowena Isabella Coelho, Sharmaine Dey, AWAKENERS Swagata Goel

2019

COHORT OF 2019

AMITHA KRISHNAMURTHI

ANEESHA PM

ARCHANA MUKHERJI

ARUNA KUMARI

ARUNA LAKSHMAN DAS

ATREYEE DEKA

CAROLINE CRUZ

CHAITHRA U N

CHAYA GOKHALE

INDIRA N

JEMIMA DANIEL

KIRTI JOSHI

MADHUMATHI SHIVANANJAIAH

MANISHA AJMANI

MANISHA SHARMA

MANISHA SUREKA

MARY TEENA

MEERA SANGHVI

MERIN VARGHESE

NAINA MISHRA

COHORT OF 2019

RETAMBRA SIDDIQUI

POORVI MEHTA

RANJEETA BHAWNANI

REETI MALHOTRA

RESHMA NARASIMHAN

SANGEETHA DAVID

SAPNA P S

SAVITA PANDHARKAR

SHASHI LALCHANDANI

SHIVANI CHOPRA

SHRADDHA MISHRA

SHREYA BHAT

SHWETHA T RAMAKRISHNAN

SNEHA SANGANI

VARSHA GUPTA

VASUNDHARA VEDAMURTHY

SPURTHI MOULI

VINEETHA V

SRIVIDYA VAIDYANATHAN

VINODHINI V

UMA ASHA RAMAN

SHEETAL CHITTIAPPA

Disha Graduation Ceremony 2019 The Graduation Ceremony for HP India’s 40 Hi-Po women was commemorated by Binu Mathew with a message for the cohort to continue to climb high, climb far!

The Disha Graduation Ceremony was a power packed two-day event, which took place on 16th & 17th October 2019 at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore.

The event was also graced with the presence of Sumeer Chandra, General Manager, PS Services.

The graduation ceremony took place on Thursday, 17th October.

A networking dinner was hosted on Wednesday,16th October, which gave the cohort a unique opportunity to interact and connect with HP’s Senior most leaders.

The event was honored by the presence of Vinay Awasthi, incoming MD for India Market in an up close and personal fireside chat moderated by Ruby Tomar, Section Manager, Print R&D.

Apart from this, an inspiring keynote speech was addressed by Adrienne Massie -Employee Engagement Lead - AMS Region.

For the first time in the program, Disha 2019 witnessed two teams in the second position.

All the presentations were top notch, were all highly creative and were delivered with utmost confidence.

Projects At A Glance TEAM SERVICES NINJAS Enhance Care Center Capability Objective was to build capability matrix to identify the right skill set needed for the workforce.

Sponsor: Manish Batra Mentor: Harish A N Team: Anesha P M Aruna Kumari Atreyee Deka Manisha Sharma Sapna P S Shreya Bhat

TEAM AI DIVAS

TEAM LOGICALS

TEAM KHALEESIS

Digital Revolution in HP’s Financial Processes through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

APJ Logistics Process Understanding and Cost Saving Opportunities

Reinventing the way kids Learn

Objective was to propose best practices that are futuristic and innovative for selected HP’s Finance processes.

Objective was to Identify Cost Saving Opportunities/Process Improvement of Logistic Process for CDO and X-dock countries.

Objective was to increase HP’s market share in consumer segment by improving following metric in our quarterly brand research by IMRB Kantar.

Sponsor: Frank Bosse Mentor: Mukesh Singh

Sponsor: Vijay Mark Rao Mentor: Nithya Solomon

Team: Aruna Lakshman Das Chaithra U N Ranjeeta Bhawnani Reshma Narasimhan Shashi Lalchandani

Team: Jemima Daniel Manisha Ajmani Mary Teena Shwetha Ramakrishnan Spurthi Mouli Vinodhini V

Sponsor: Siegfried Schoen Mentor: Komala Seetharamaiah Team: Reeti Malhotra Savita Pandharkar Srividya Vaidyanathan Vasundhara Vedamurthy Vineetha V

TEAM THE BACKPACKERS

TEAM UNICORNS

Establish HP as a Major Player in the Soft Goods Industry

GOC Standardization of the Service Transition Process

TEAM JEDI Increase Registration Rates

TEAM FLYING FLEET Optimization of MPS Fleet Deployment Strategy

Objective was to Partner with Wildcraft for a range of cobranded lifestyle backpacks and develop a GTM strategy.

Objective was to reduce the number of e-RFC ’s from 70% to 20% & Standardize the current process from Development to Deployment within GOC.

Objective was to drive up-tick in HP Consumer Product registration rates & Improve visibility to customer information.

Objective was to Develop a Model/Tool that factors variables to determine an optimum fleet size for our customers.

Sponsor: Vickram Bedi Mentor: Gurpreet Malik

Sponsor: Piyush Agarwal Mentor: Zrinka Frankovitch

Sponsor: Vineet Gupta Mentor: Vijay Mittal & Sanjana Srikant

Sponsor: Gemma Burman Mentor: Anantha Padmanaban

Team: Amitha Krishnamurthi Indira N Naina Mishra Sneha Sangani Shivani Chopra

Team: Archana Mukherji Meera Sanghvi Poorvi Mehta Shraddha Mishra Uma Raman

Team: Caroline Fiona Cruz Chaya Ghokale Kirti Joshi Merin Mary Varghese Varsha Gupta

Team: Madhumathi Shivananjaiah Manisha Sureka Sangeetha David Sheetal Chittiappa Retambra Siddique

TEAM AMAZONS

Achala N M, Anupama Reddy, Preethy Varghese, Suhashini Ramachandran, Sumitra Ethiraju, TarunPreet Nayyar

TEAM Anjana Visveswaran, Leena Limaye, Monika LAZARUS Wadhwa, Rowena Isabella Coelho, Sharmaine Dey, AWAKENERS Swagata Goel