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“The Discovery and Transformation Reports are 95% accurate and exactly captured our business challenges and potential solutions ”

Nikhil Dhand
Managing Director, Dhand Steels

“The Discovery Tool identified our bottlenecks like stagnating revenue, profitability, and increased overhead costs while the Transformation phase helped us in addressing them”

Praviin Biche
Managing Director, Orbittal Electromech Engineering Projects Pvt. Ltd

“The Wadhwani Advantage Discovery Tool and Report is excellent work enabling us to monitor our KPIs continuously”

Sandesh Salian
Director, Dali & Samir Engineering

Wadhwani Advantage Mission

To empower thousands of small and medium-sized businesses with capabilities to maximize their growth potential

Why Wadhwani Advantage?

Only pioneering program globally that blends empowerment, consulting and practical hand-holding support
Only program that productises consulting advice for SMEs
Only program catalysing SME ecosystems, not just solving consulting mandates
Only program that selects SMEs with a capitalist lens and executes with a social lens of creating employment
Only program that co-creates value leveraging available expertise of advisors
Only pro bono program of its kind, with high-quality offerings
Comprises of hand-picked talent from top-notch professional firms
Has a customer satisfaction, Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 73 (global benchmark for excellence is 50)

Implementation and outcome-focused program

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Wadhwani Advantage Offerings

The only program that blends empowerment, productised consulting, implementation, builds community, provides funding for paying consultants, and delivers economic and social outcomes.

Business Diagnostic Assessment and Transformation Plan based on a KPI Based Automated Tool and an online Q&A assessment
Business Plan ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Tool
50+ analytic decision making support tools
Power BI Dashboards for real-time monitoring of KPIs and tracking of the transformation plan
Recommendations of curated advisors to execute transformation plans
Program Management Office (PMO) to help SMEs and advisors manage the transformation plans successfully

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Wadhwani Advantage Support Models

Wadhwani Advantage helps SMEs in diagnosing, recommending and implementing transformative actions through low and high-touch interventions:
• A ‘Do-It-Yourself (DIY)’ Model (Revenue between INR 5-75 crores)
• An ‘Assisted Model’ for SMEs (Revenue > INR 75 crores)

‘Do-It-Yourself (DIY)’ Model

Designed for SMEs with revenues between INR 5 crores to 75 crores who are hungry for growth, willing to professionalise and committed to learning
Enables SMEs to gauge their business health through a free diagnostic business test to prioritize transformation charters
Connects (by SME choice) with curated SME advisors (at subsidised charges) and 60+ diagnostic tools on the Wadhwani Advantage Community Platform
Up to 15 hours per annum of pro bono transformation support by the WA helpdesk team, including knowledge transfer of KPI performance and monitoring

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Assisted Model

Designed for businesses with revenues > INR 75 crores who are hungry for growth, willing to professionalise and committed to learning
Enables SMEs to gauge their business health through a free diagnostic business test to prioritize transformation charters (optional)
Deep diagnostics & insights based consulting services by external advisors outlining business transformation project plan, PMO plan, and the outcomes definition
Transformation recommendations and execution-led consulting services by external advisors
100 hours per annum of pro bono transformation support by the WA SME Success Team, including interpretation support of KPI performance and monitoring
Transformation KPI monitoring dashboards developed and supported by WA Success Team, and implementation support by external advisors
Financial subsidy of up to 50% of advisor fees to select businesses, subject to terms and conditions

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What do our SME clients say?

The Wadhwani Advantage Discovery Tool was extremely helpful and the Discovery Report is excellent work enabling us continuously monitor our KPIs at regular intervals
-Sandesh Salian
Director, Dali & Samir Engineering

The Wadhwani Advantage program connected me to different advisors and used customized tools on revenue forecasting, digital marketing performance tracking etc. to address the day-to-day challenges
-Umesh Jagwani
Founder, Nature Rich Food and Xinng Foods

The Discovery and Transformation Reports are 95% accurate and captured exactly where we were and where we wanted to go. The Wadhwani Advantage team understood my business closely and was completely aligned with what we needed to do to achieve our company vision
-Nikhil Dhand
Managing Director, Dhand Steels

The Wadhwani Foundation and Advantage program is doing such a great job by supporting SMEs like us. I am amazed with the kind of effort being put in. It has added tremendous value to me and my business. Recommendations and insights provided are very useful and I have passed them to my team for implementation
-Sabu John
Flexiapps Solutions Pvt Ltd

Wadhwani Advantage business growth and consulting sessions are great. Thanks to the Wadhwani team for making me part of this
-Tushar Satkar
Moraya Packaging, Pune

Wadhwani Foundation’s Sahayata Advantage Program entailed close engagements with business consultants and their associates who made me go through a thought process beyond my routine transactional business. The toolkits with specialists made us explore the potential opportunities to make our business sustainable and scalable
-Krishna Shukla
Hind Global Exim LLP

Under the Wadhwani Advantage program, we got access to specialist business consultants who advised us on how to improve our processes and provided us with knowledge resources which proved to be helpful in our business
-Chaitanya Agrawal
Cranex Ltd.

I benefited from the expert guidance of consultants & advisors as well as from networking with fellow entrepreneurs in the Wadhwani Advantage Program
– Naresh Pagaria
MD, Pagaria Foods Pvt Ltd

We always had a growth plan but never put in such a structured way. Biggest impact was how much introspection we did
– Deepak Pinto
Founder, CEO, Zenith Precision

If Wadhwani Foundation was not there, we would not have `Accelerated’. It would have taken us 3-years instead of 3-months to make the changes
– Dr. Ramnath Babu
Co-founder & Director,
SpOvum Technologies Pvt Ltd

The Wadhwani Advantage is an excellent Program. The biggest positive is the connect with experts. I will highly recommend this program to fellow entrepreneurs
– Vikas Lachhwani
Founder & CEO, MCaffeine

We at Vaave found it tough to achieve 5% month-on-month growth. Now we will touch 6.5% by year end
– Paresh Masade
Founder & MD, Vaave

The Wadhwani Advantage Program helped me dream big
– Mayank Khatan
Director, Pune Techtrol

I used to think like a manufacturer, now I think like a true entrepreneur
– Sandeep Parvatikar
Co-founder and CEO Unnathi Techonologies

The Wadhwani Advantage has been instrumental in setting up processes and creating frameworks for us. The mentor support we received helped us address our branding challenge
– Maulick Mistry
Co-Founder & CEO Mojo Bars

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Your Assisted Journey with Wadhwani Advantage

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Wadhwani Advantage Community Platform

The Wadhwani Advantage Community offers exciting possibilities for SMEs to participate, engage and learn the skills needed to thrive from peers and a like-minded ecosystem of small businesses, service providers, advisors, and capital providers. The community members can expand their customer base, and accelerate revenue and growth by exchanging business strategies and collaborative learning.

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The one stop app

Wadhwani Advantage Technology Platform

The AI-empowered technology platform, GENIE, is a self-help SME Consulting Solution which enables SMEs towards self-driven perpetual growth through personalized, on-demand, knowledge, skills, and expert connects. The Wadhwani Advantage app provides instant access to personalized action-oriented content and connects. The 360° support provided by the tech platform includes building market capabilities through access to market and expert/peer networks, webcasts, partner workshops, case studies etc.