90 Days To PoC: A Startup Launch Strategy

Success — one word every entrepreneur dreams and craves for.

From that eureka moment, every entrepreneur faces many hurdles to achieve SUCCESS. One of the biggest hurdles you as an entrepreneur face in your journey is communicating your idea to onboard different stakeholders like peers, investors and customers. Time and again, it has been proven that the most effective way to communicate your idea across the board is to demonstrate a working prototype aka Minimum Viable Product (MVP) aka Proof of Concept (PoC) . A recent report from Small Business Association shows that about 65% of startups fail due to lack of proper access to technical expertise to create a PoC.

Working as a technology partner with various startups globally, we identify following common pitfalls that startups fall into in their path to creating a successful PoC.

1. Failing to visualize and refine your PoC with respect to your end product.

2. Failing to identify suitable technology partner and/or stack for your PoC.

3. Failing to iterate and incorporate the feedback into our product.

To overcome these failures and deliver your “PoC in 90 days”, SoftVan team created a unique approach using “LEAN AGILE” principles and concepts of “BLUE OCEAN” strategy. A lot of jargon in one sentence? Please allow me to explain…

Why blue ocean strategy?

Entrepreneur believe in their idea and we also, that’s why we initiate SimultaSoftVanneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to open up a new market space and create new demand for your idea. We capture uncontested market space so that it creates a viability for your idea by reconstructing the industrial place according to your actions and beliefs. We will transform your product into commodities that will lead to the any contrast to the industry.

Why lean agile principles?

Lean Software Development talks about Eliminate Waste, Build Quality In, Create Knowledge, Defer Commitment, Deliver Fast, Respect People and Optimize the Whole. That’s the key to product development and if we use in during PoC, it will help founder to be focused, understand the market expectation, traction and showcase the USP of Product/Concept.

Why 90 days to POC and What is all about this framework?

• According to human psychology, in the initial 90 days, 79% human lost their interest from any of work if they do not get success, they are not able to clear the confusion in the air or not seeing a clear path. And that’s the reason real problem-solving idea is not converted into realities.
• SoftVan’s Concept Proof believes that it is all about testing a concept and drawing conclusions about its market viability. PoC will portray the results that whether your product creates an impact as you expected or not or whether you need to rethink your entire work-methodology for improvement. At first, you might believe that the PoC phase is not needed by every project. But partly it’s true.

We design this structure to enable us to work with the aspiring entrepreneur to transform their idea into reality. Let’s see how we’re going to…

Connecting the dots:

The functional specialist from SoftVan will understand the idea, the vision of the entrepreneur, conduct market studies and link the technology to the idea.

Taking into consideration:

1. Startup ideology
2. Problem and nurturing and solution
3. Product forecasting for the next 5 years
4. Immediate requirement
5. Market research

Technical Assistance:

Technical approach discussion: When we draft our technical blueprint, we look after the immediate function requirement, completion, innovation in technology, technical budget and product traction for the next 5 years with keeping in mind upcoming phases. By this we land on multiple technical approach which give us better clarity to the product owner to decide the best path

Mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs: Organize ongoing tailor-made technical development support for entrepreneurs.

Prototype Building.

To eliminate or remove the above-mentioned hurdles permanently, SoftVan proposes the involvement of a well-designed Prototype model to pitch as a piece of work in front of investors. This will give them an ideal-visual of your concept that you wanted them to understand.

Prototype Building will raise the following benefits:

• Users are actively involved in development.
• Because the system’s working model is provided in this methodology, users gain a better understanding of the system being developed.
• It is possible to detect real-time problems and user adoption much earlier.
• Quicker user feedback for better solutions is available.
• Missing functionality can be identified easily.
• Confusing or difficult functions can be identified Requirements validation, Quick implementation of, incomplete, but functional, application.

SoftVan firmly believes that it is not easy for the best individuals to give up and continue to build their startups and dreams.

Are you ready to start you Entrepreneur journey? Allow us to be a part of that…

Credits and special thanks Jay Vora, Jai Parimi, Purvesh Simejiya, Gaurang Hrishi, Parshwa Patel, Dipti Saboo, Rohan Mishra, and all other founders who connected to me, inspired me (Mr. Raghu Raman) and guided me.

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To swiftly fill these gap according to us, AI can perform a vital role as immediate extended healthcare support system at non-critical grounds. Thats the reason NITI Ayog and governments bodies sees AI as a novelty that can overcome the above mentioned gaps.

Here are some of the impactful ways that helps in changing the landscape of Indian Healthcare.

Overcoming diagnostic resource flaws in NRHM .

Preventive Healthcare is the future. The overall healthcare industry is one of the largest with a massive patient database in India. It is further expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2021 with the on-going developments in artificial intelligence. By providing relevant predictions to prevent diseases and clinical confidence. According to the Interim Budget of 2019–2020, the government has specifically stressed on creating a strong healthcare delivery system in the country with an ambition to enable people of all strata to avail accessible and affordable medical facilities. In order to fulfill this ambition, the government will be setting up National Center for Artificial Intelligence, along with the development of National AI Portal, to create an ecosystem for the adoption of technologies in order to support the momentum of care.

In simple words, AI portal includes the intervention of device-to-device inputs as well as human inputs to derive the accurate results. In this process of communication, AI has been continuously bridging the gap between healthcare service delivery and patient recovery. Just by uploading the inputs itself into the portal at initial level and can avoid any downfall situation. AI systems can help reduce these errors substantially. A deep learning algorithm could more accurately determine specific threats. And eventually where there are lack of resources as in Limited doctors with limited medical equipments, there such AI portal can cope up the necessities of patients. Mainly the NRHM (National Rural Healthcare management) could get benefited more under this initiative.

Automating Post-Health operational transactions

While no one likes to invest time and money to deal post-health operational things like Insurance Claims, reveal the benefits of government healthcare schemes and non-critical routine check-ups might can be done virtually.

Intelligent Systems can automate Medical/insurance processes with ease of connecting stakeholders. Which impact low or reducing human-generated claiming error, save the time & resources with contribution on Electronic audited digital governance. These analytics will help the citizen to reveal the benefits and government can reduce the bribes and make sure that benefit can reach to relevant beneficiary by removing the mediators.

Applying Computer Vision to analyze patient health data like MRI ,X-Rays.

Patient large Health data like MRI & X-rays have technical advances in combinatorial chemistry, genomics, and proteomics have made available large databases of biological and chemical information that have the potential to dramatically improve our understanding of cancer biology at the molecular level. Such an understanding of cancer biology could have a substantial impact on how we detect, diagnose, and manage cancer cases in the clinical setting of having such acute shortage of Qualified Medical Resources. One of the biggest challenges facing clinical oncologists is how to extract clinically useful knowledge from the overwhelming amount of raw molecular data that are currently available with such short resources.We are focusing on how the exploratory data analysis techniques of machine learning and high‐dimensional visualization can be applied to extract clinically useful knowledge from a heterogeneous assortment of molecular data. After an introductory overview of machine learning and visualization techniques, the two example of recent proprietary algorithmic AI intervention (PURS and RadViz™) that the experts have found to be useful in the exploratory analysis of large biological data sets and reports (X-rays & MRIs). Today we have the use of exploratory analysis techniques on proteomic mass spectroscopy data for the detection of Cancer/Tumor & the diagnostic use of these techniques on gene expression data to differentiate between squamous and adenocarcinoma of the lung. Also they have illustrate the use of such techniques in selecting from a database of chemical compounds those most effective in managing patients with melanoma versus leukemia.

This can help surgeons or cancer specialist to perform better,” commented the chief clinical officer at Sound Physicians, a national practice of 3,000 doctors and medical practitioners offering acute care management says that “We apprehend that a surgeon’s talent, particularly with new or difficult procedures, varies widely, with huge implications for patient outcomes and cost. AI will each cut back that variation, and help all surgeons improve — even the best ones to analyze the accurate data with such inadequate resources. It’s important to leverage that digital feedback.” The result can be safer procedures, more effective results and a better experience for the patient who is being cared for.

As current government initiate Smart Cities, e-governance and health first, we are seeing a large amount of citizen-behaviour data will be generate and that’s the key of personalize citizen solutions. Softvan always contribute in good -cause initiative and that the motivation for us to built citizen-centric solution which can connect the last mile-citizens with necessary Health facility near around with the help of e-Health, Artificial Intelligence, and IOT. Proper AI usage can lead to more streamlined operational activities that improves leading in reducing confusion and improving customer satisfaction.

SOFTVAN has achieved some milestone in bringing “Healthcare-on-demand services” , To gain more perception or discuss it in vastly, feel free to connect us at SOFTVAN. Also if you are willing to enhance your skills more in learning more diversities in Artificial Intelligence solutions & frameworks, we can conduct a Brainstorm session with our domain expert Mr.Shaishav Shah & Mr. Harshal Trivedi.

#ai #healthcare #AIinhealthcare #HealthAI #softvan #aiforhealth #aiadoption #aidriven #aisolutions #aipowered #aiml #aiims #indianhealthcare

Published on September 12, 2019

Mr. Rohan Mishra

Vision to lift NITI AYOG’s Healthcare AI- Intervention:The New wave to Indian Healthcare was originally published in Softvan on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this era of digital modernization, there are so many different ways to spread the ideas, discuss the issues that creates impact in social media and among individuals/company branding. After analyzing the current Indian social trends, I think that “Hygiene” and “Request-on-Demand” creates a vast and diversify impacts in our day-to-days lives.

This impacts lead the people to raise concern & question that hygiene, sanitation and every health related issues can be solved or can be improved more than the present situation, due to this consumers is becoming more peculiar regarding, Hygiene & Quality.

According to me, the perception of Indians towards the Hygiene has been evolved a lot in recent years. May be the digitization or their responsibilities as good citizen have done this part, also we can say that Government affiliated schemes “SWACHH BHARAT”, “Clean India, Green India” have also played an important role. The revenue spent on these awareness bring scheme have also been scaled higher in public domain compared to previous years. The social campaign and Strict Constitutional rules are also a reason that are impacting the people’s mindset towards hygiene. The recent government data also tells the same story that there is a steeper increase in public expenditure on Hygiene, sanitation observed in recent years. (Source : The Wire)

With an eye on increasing the awareness in hygiene, finance ministry announced the recent includes in Hygiene and health-care domain.

We all are bearing with a challenging & demanding market in recent times. In such times since increasing revenue is becoming more challenging and hectic & most industries go on a cost cutting spree due to the economic crisis & increasing the labor cost.

Industries today want to deliver a hygienic product with healthy environment however due to cost involvement they refrain from doing that consequences. In the longer run these micro changes impact on consumer health, believes & decreasing company brand image.

Here are some recent series of events that lead us in believing more and more that why hygiene is becoming priority

1. Online-Food aggregate thinking to established base kitchens:

According to source, the two major dominating online food aggregate were in discussion of having their own Kitchen base for processing the food in better hygiene condition to reduce the consumer complaints, increase the margin and adopt the local authentic taste to acquire more loyal customers.

2. Chipotle to close all restaurants on Feb. 8 for food safety meeting. Sou

Chipotle said tests confirmed bacteria caused a recent outbreak of illness at an Ohio restaurant that sickened hundreds. Health staff identified 647 people who said they experienced gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at the Chipotle on Sawmill Parkway between July 26 and July 30.

A type of bacteria that forms when food is left out at unsafe temperatures caused Chipotle Mexican Grill’s latest foodborne illness outbreak.

The above mentioned reasons are the mind-boggling impacts that hit our minds to think and that’s a reason we are investing more & more in hygiene.

Softvan thinks : “Hygiene is a necessity & affordable adoption”

As Artificial intelligence has become more sophisticated in performing the monotonous tasks with high accuracy. We should explore the potential of AI and Robotic process automation to solve the affordable hygienic problem in multiple verticals like healthcare, food processing industry and customer centric business.

Softvan recently engage with couple of sectors leading companies to build a intelligent solutions to overcome the above mentioned obstacles. Sharing highlights:

1: Machine Supervision to Preserve Hygiene Compliance “QSR”:

One of the Mexican quick serve restaurant recently observed that they were receiving a huge amount of customer complaints about low quality food and also noticed that there’s been a huge wastage of inventory. So they connect to SOFTVAN to brainstorm how to eradicate this hurdles. After investing time to visit restaurant current operation flow and brainstorming the scenario, we proposed to apply hygiene standards that were recognized by the food processing industry through techniques know as COMPUTER VISION and we integrated current kitchen appliance for having real time monitoring. That’s help the chain-executive to monitor QSR activities, control quality, prevent un-necessary chaos, identify productivity and to reveal customer experience

2: Monitoring MediCare Standards to Avoid Contamination:

Since inception Softvan connected to HealthCare industry and delivering cutting edge solutions like Data Analytics, Ehealth and Wearable Health monitoring technologies. Due to the tight coupling with industry we come across the regular contamination issues which is happening because lack of cleanness, unhygienic apparatus and skill resources. Hence we request and run a proof of concept with one of the local hospital to monitor the health staff activities as per IIMA’s safety guidelines, inference of sanitation and cleanliness.

As Lebanese Proverb quoted “ HYGIENE IS TWO THIRDS OF HEALTH” , We are keen to invest and contribute more & more in Government’s Swachh Bharat mission by utilizing extensive capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, Data analytics, IOT and Product engineering.

We are happy to listen a ideas and problem statement from network and ready to brainstorm solutions!

#softvan #machinelearning #computervision #HygieneComputerVision #SwachhBharatMission-ComputerVision #SoftvanVision #videoanalytics #hygiene #DigitalGovernment #iot #healthcare #medicareAI #aws

Redefining Hygiene Standards using Computer Vision : Scaling-Up “Digital India” was originally published in Softvan on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

It should not come as a surprise to many at this point, the extent of which the financial services industry has implemented and come to rely on emerging technology such as AI and robotic driven process automation or RPA.

As digital transformation rapidly changes the daily functions of bankers and financial professionals, it is also crucial that the human workforce in this space continue to adapt to the transformation and work in tandem with the automated environment to optimal productivity.

Here are some of the ways how AI-powered tech is redefining some of the functions of the financial sector.

#1 | Robotic retrieval deploy.

In response to the increasing number of data request, insurance brokerage company Willis Towers Watson, deploys robotic solutions to perform the task of retrieving tax invoices if queried by the tax authorities.

The organization’s tax team might assign the robots to hold out the perform earlier than time just about free from errors, to optimize queries latent period.

Moreover, robots could be put to work at off-peak hours when the human workforce isn’t even working. They could arrive at work just to be greeted by retrieved invoices ready to be reviewed.

#2 | Chatbots as first-line responders

Many banks recently have started implementing AI for customer-facing function in the form of chatbots. SOFTVAN recently implemented multi-language virtual agent for leading NBFC.

In pursuing a goal to improve its customers’ experience, NBFC leveraged AI and natural language programming (NLP) to augment its contact center agents with chatbots that use predictive capabilities to answer customer queries.

The bots could resolve primary customer transaction without human intervention and escalate the calls that it can’t handle to human personnel.

#3 | Insightful drivers

One of the most significant benefits of AI enabled automation in the financial services sector is its enhanced capability to provide valuable insights on trends and pattern which drives the industry.

AI allows organizations to analyze data at an unprecedented level to reduce guesswork along the way, enabling the financiers and bankers to deliver maximum value on clients’ investments.

So, as AI and other futuristic technology become more entrenched and deployed for more significant operations within any financial organizations, it is imperative that executives and professionals in the industry aware that these technologies are in the end, tools to help increase efficiency and reduce errors.

The human workforce will still be making decisions and use their experience to drive the business forward. And thus, while integrating AI creates a more sophisticated workplace, it will not replace the industry’s employees, but empower them to deliver better services to consumers.

#SoftVan #NBFC #CorporatefinanceAutomation #AI #Fintech #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence

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Welcome to a second edition of Ahmedabad AWS community day, Here’s the whole description that how you can make your day worth it by enlightening with our key-note speakers and our knowledge-spread sessions.

But first let us take a quick recap of what went down in India’s first AWS community day event which was held in Ahmedabad

AWS Community Day 2018 — Full House

1. Starting from 6 in the morning, the queue was already enthusiastic about it which lead to 700 plus registration without zero fall at the sessions and resulted into one of the most crowded event held at India for the first time in Ahmedabad.
2. The full-house sessions resulted into a major twitter trend with 200 RTs at same place.
3. Ten Different session in two track
4. Our #awscommunityday was one of the major trend set for the day.

It’s time to repeat the history…Join us again on June 29th, 2019 — Community Day

If you haven’t registered yet, do it now while the registrations are still open

Note — there will be limited onsite registration spot, so wake up early unless you have a valid confirmation email. In case of queries reach out to us.

#ProTips — if you are attending for the first time, keep a note

• Gates open at 7:30 am but early birds and ravens queue up from 6:45 and early. A lot of people travel overnight from other cities and reach directly at the venue around 6–6:30 so don’t expect to reach at 7:55 and get in by 8:00.
• Early bird freebies — The first 50 delegates to reach the venue and complete their registration will receive an exclusive AWS swag as an early bird gift.
• Spend some time in meeting your peers and new folks. Get your questions answered from AWS experts during breakout sessions or at AWS Experts.
• Sneak in an extra notepad to note strategy ideas and information ,answer of your queries and grow your etiquettes.
• Pick your session based on two things:
• Service or a domain which you are currently facing challenges with and need help. This way you can connect with SMEs or some like-minded folks who can answer your queries.
• Service or a theme that interests you i.e. either something that you want to switch to or grow your knowledge in a particular domain.

Venue: AWS Ahmadabad Community Day — 29th June 2019 at AMA, ATIRA CAMPUS, DR VIKRAM SARABHAI MARG, UNIVERSITY AREA, AHMADABAD, GUJARAT 380015

Event Schedule:

• Registration & Networking — 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM: Registration will start at early 7:30AM and till 9:30 AM. Early bird gift waiting for participants. Till inauguration have a networking and visit technical booth. Get some tea coffee and enjoy.
• Inauguration and Keynote -9:30 AM to 10:15 AM: Mr. MADHUSUDAN SHEKAR (Evangelist @Amazon) will inaugurate the event with other speakers and community leaders.

Mr. MADHUSUDAN SHEKAR who is a technocrat with rich experience in transforming traditional IT into a modern real-time responsive service. Excellent understanding of incorporating Cloud, Mobility and Analytics into the organization for real-time business and enabling new formats of collaboration within employees and with customers.

• Industry Expert Talk -10:15 AM to 10:45 AM: Industry community expert talk acquires an audience of approx. 400+ aspirants. Expert Talk is to bring together bright minds to give talks that are idea focused on innovation and utility, and on a wide range of awareness among youths and society, to faster learning, inspiration and wonder — and productive result.“Tea Break and Networking: 10:45 AM — 11:15 AM-Enjoy Tea and connect with peers, have fun with games, collect goodies, have some tech chat with tech-booth”
• Panel Discussion (AWS With Startup, Education, Public Sector, Commercial Sector Mix Panel):11:15 AM- 12:15 PM

Objective: The aim to elaborate the current involvement of AWS in various domains and how we can contribute more to our digital community by leading AWS further.Panel discussion will be conducted by

Mr. Brijesh Patel (CTO SNDK CORP-IT & Cloud Solutions).

Discussion Topic: Cloud adoption Check list.1) Mr. Keyur Shah — GTU (System Analyst)
2) Sr. Anish Chinubhai — CTO Amnex
3) Mr. Jayesh Tank — GM IT Harsha Engineers.
4) Mr. Jaydeep Rupareliya — Director Infopercept Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

• “Lunch and Networking: 12:15 PM — 13:15 PM — Enjoy a delicious food, visit tech-booth, win prices play games”

TRACK 1: (ARCHITECTING + DEVOPS)

• Session1 (Amazon EC2 Spot Instances) 13:15 PM — 14:30 PM Optimize your Amazon EC2 costs by upto 90%, scale your application throughput by upto 10x and build a failure resilient architecture by Mr Chakravarthy Nagarajan , who is a Solution architect for end to end High Performance computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial intelligence at AWS.
• Session2 (Serverless Architecture At Scale) 14:45 PM — 16:00 PM
• Selecting the right framework, Project Organization, CI/CD, Testing, Debugging, Logging and Monitoring, Error Handling, Measure and Manage Performance. By: Mr. Dhaval Nagar

TRACK 2 (INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY)

• Session1(Amazon Alexa): 13:15 PM — 14:30 PM Next generation communication standard Voice interaction — Amazon Alexa by Mr. Sohan Maheshwar who is an experienced Ambassador with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.
• Session2 (AWS Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Services)

Demonstrating how to utilize AWS Manage Machine learning services by Mr. Harshal Trivedi ,
Harsrhal is an experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.

What’s next?

AWS User Groups : I lead AWS User Group, Ahmedabad along with Nilesh, Harshal and few other folks. If you are in Ahmedbad and let’s connect at our next monthly meetup.

Not in Ahmedabad ? No problem — we have AWS User Groups in 11 cities in India — do join the one nearest to you.

AWS Community Day 2019

AWS Community Days are community-organized cloud education events, featuring technical discussions and demos led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world.

Don’t miss attending AWS Community Day at following Indian cities this year.

1. Bengaluru : 26th & 27th July 2019
2. Chennai : 10th August 2019

We are always happy to hear from you. You can reach us for sponsorship enquires, topic proposals, ticketing, feedback or any general question on AWS Community Day.

Thanks

Shaishav Shah

Content Flow Direction: Mr. Gaurav Kamboj, HotStar
Content Courtesy: Mr. Rohan, SOFTVAN

#aws #communityday #cloudfirst #ai #ml #iot #ahmedabad

AWS Community Day Ahmedabad 2019 Guide was originally published in Softvan on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Almost each company watches rational market drivers like worth and merchandise innovation. however today’s customers aren’t deciding the way to look supported these ancient, rational forces alone — they’re additionally extremely influenced by their emotional experiences with a whole.

Tuning into customers’ emotional desire could be a necessity for achieving client engagement. Client engagement is very important because engaged customers will stay around for years. They bring new business with their exuberant recommendations. Ultimately, client Engagement boosts your organization’s gross margin, share worth, and ROI. But customers’ emotions aren’t one-size-fits all. So, to satisfy every client’s needs, front-line staff and managers should have tools that facilitate to maximize their emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to spot and fittingly answer one’s own emotions and also the emotions of others. “Working with Emotional Intelligence” author Daniel Goleman writes:

“How customers feel when they interact with an employee determines how they feel about the company itself. In a psychological sense, the ‘company’ as experienced by the customer is these interactions. Loyalty is lost or strengthened in every interaction between a company and its customers.”

Instead of telling the client whatever she / he ought to feel or what she ought to buy — which typically ends up in client resentment — emotional intelligence tool should help them to make informed decision rapidly and accurately. By doing this organization sees increased client Engagement and sales. Such service is unquestionably useful within the long-term.

We firmly believe that rather focus on investing traditional customer engagement model, If a company applies emotional intelligence and AI solutions, engagement will guarantee a successful journey.

Let’s connect to discuss what we did and brainstorm your next customer emotion engagement journey.

#Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #EmotionalIntelligence #SOFTVAN #ConnectingDOTS #VideoAnalysis #ComputerVision

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