Value A7

Vasish Ramkhalawon - Director

He is presently the World Bank Country/Operations Officer for Mauritius and Seychelles where he is involved on Development Policy Operations and Investment Operations to raise efficiency of the public sector and support private sector competitiveness. In addition he is involved on a number of just-in-time technical and analytical support and knowledge products on a variety of issues and sectors including business regulation, SMEs, trade competitiveness, social protection, ICT, civil service reforms, state owned enterprises, transport, water, energy, governance, M&E, education, health, tourism, financial and PPPs.

He has served several years as an MBA lecturer for Heriot Watt University (UK) in Mauritius and as a business and management consultant where he has managed a wide gamut of activities in Mauritius, Africa and UK in Change Management, Strategic and Operations Management, Organisational Restructuring, Performance Management, Training and Skills Development, Investment Feasibility, Loss Adjustment, Operational Risk Analysis and Project Management for both the private and public sector.

Vasish was the head of the Commercial Operations, Development and Property Section and the Chairman of the Insurance Committee of Airports of Mauritius. He was also the Manager Business Development of Urban Infrastructure Capital Advisors – Mauritius, in alliance with Urban Infrastructure Venture Capital Ltd India (a subsidiary of Jai Corp Ltd). He was the General Manager of PolyExpert Mauritius Ltd (PolyExpert has around 900 employees with 400 experts in 95 offices in France, Europe and outer islands including Mauritius).

He is a registered Trainer with the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA) on Management and Strategy. He was previously a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, U.S.A. (IEEE) for three years. He was the Vice President of the Association of Small Shareholders in all Listed Companies of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius for six years. He has participated in several conferences as a key member at national and international level. He is also the Past President of the Rotary Club and the President of a Social Organisation.

One of his main achievements is the conceptualisation of 360 SPA (www.360spa.org), viewed as a highly systematised process that provides a 360 degree report of a company though an in-depth management survey that covers the following:

• The evaluation of the Threats and Opportunities of the company over 20 item variables/factors
• The evaluation of the Weaknesses and Strengths of the company over 20 item variables/factors
• The Performance evaluation of the company over 2 key success factors (Competency and Efficiency) each covering 10 item variables/factors
• The Potential evaluation of the company over 2 key success factors (Competitiveness and Attractiveness) each covering 10 item variables/factors
• The Principles that all people in the company should adhere to, across all business functions, to achieve the company objectives
• The possible generic Business Strategy to be adopted by the company

Nisha Ramkhalawon - Director

Nisha Ramkhalawon is a B.A (Hons) Degree Holder with a Diploma in Journalism and Public Relations. She is currently undertaking the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and administrators professional examinations. She is also certified by Mauritius Qualifications Authority for Training Needs Analysis. She has more than eight years of professional experience both locally and overseas and she has extensive knowledge in different sectors such as property consulting, training, marketing, administration, secretarial, offshore business and client relations.

Value A7 Associates

Value A7 has over the years built an extensive network of professionals as Business Associates including Consultants, Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, Quantity Surveyors and Engineers with expertise in various fields and areas of competences.

Our Vision

To be a regionally respected leader in the chosen fields of endeavour and to have assembled a team of exceptional people who are committed to the highest standards of integrity and professionalism.

Our Mission

To always provide clients with a professional service by combining technically and commercially sound advice and solutions with a timely and reliable response.

Our Values

• Technical and Professional Excellence
• Customer Success
• Ethics and Integrity
• Safety
• Quality
• Responsibility

360 SPA

STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (360 SPA)

• Provides your company with a powerful tool to formulate a strategy to achieving a 'fit' between the organisation and its environment
• Provides your company with a tool to develop a good strategic plan that will create a competitive edge – focusing on your resources and improving your results
• The report is generated through the company’s human capital management to ensure not only the development of a good strategic plan but also the right execution of the plan
• By adopting this methodology, Strategic planning is viewed as the process of developing, enhancing, and sustaining a competitive advantage through the human capital management
• Unlike most tools and techniques, 360 SPA is an enterprise-wide process involving employees from supervisory level and upwards, rather than a one-time, isolated event involving just a few
• Provides the basis for management to develop and use a particular mindset to face the challenges of developing a successful strategic plan

The Right Management Mindset

• A mind perpetually ready to challenge its own conclusions
• A mind prepared for a constant and graceful scepticism
• A mind that is open to any possibility, including impossibility
• A mind that is profoundly questioning, but buoyantly helpful
• A mind of democratic hospitality to other views
• A mind willing and able to improve people, processes, procedures and policies
• A mind with strong conviction that their actions will ultimately be judged not by Science, not by Reason, not by Technology, not by Public Opinion, but by Results achieved
• A mind that can bear the light of a new day

TO Analysis

• This exercise is not a list of motherhood statement of Threats and Opportunities
• It evaluates the Threats and Opportunities of the company over 20 item variables by:
  • Determining the probability ranking of each item variable
  • Evaluating the quantitative and qualitative effect of each item variable occurring upon the achievement of organisational objectives
  • Providing the crude value of the company’s Threats and Opportunities

WS Analysis

• The Attractiveness of the business environment is considered as a Key Success Factor that determines the POTENTIAL of the company
• This exercise evaluates the Attractiveness of the company’s business environment over 10 item variables by:
  • Determining the weight of importance of each item variable
  • Rating quantitatively and qualitatively the company vis-à-vis each items
  • Providing a low or high ranking

Competitiveness Analysis

• The Competitiveness of the company within its business environment is considered as a Key Success Factor that determines the POTENTIAL of the company
• This exercise evaluates the Competitiveness of the company within its business environment over 10 item variables by:
  • Determining the weight of importance of each item variable
  • Rating quantitatively and qualitatively the company vis-à-vis each items
  • Providing a low or high ranking

Efficiency Analysis

• The Efficiency of the company is considered as a Key Success Factor that determines the PERFORMANCE of the company
• This exercise evaluates the Efficiency of the over 10 item variables by:
  • Determining the weight of importance of each item variable
  • Rating quantitatively and qualitatively the company vis-à-vis each items
  • Providing a low or high ranking

Competency Analysis

• The Competency of the company is considered as a Key Success Factor that determines the PERFORMANCE of the company
• This exercise evaluates the Competency of the over 10 item variables by:
  • Determining the weight of importance of each item variable
  • Rating quantitatively and qualitatively the company vis-à-vis each items
  • Providing a low or high ranking

Values

• Values are a fundamental set of shared beliefs/principles that delineate and endorse supportive behaviors
• This exercise will provide the company with FIVE Principles that all people in the company should adhere to, across all business functions, to achieve the company objectives

Generic Business Strategies

• The formulation of Business Strategies is based on the 4 key success factors i.e., Attractiveness, Competitiveness, Efficiency, Competency
• Effective performance in all the above success factors are important for your company and these success factors are not stand-alone.
• Strategies are formulated by creating the right balance for achieving long term business success through satisfied and loyal customers through quality products and services delivered by skilled and satisfied employees.
• This simply means that this exercise will help the company leaders to drive the organisation in a result-oriented way to satisfy stakeholders and all responsible parties will be in tune with their environment.

Simple Operational Process

• Company provides list of employees (there are no limits on the number of employees and it could be only one) to Consultant with the following details: Employee name, Employee email, Employee title and responsibilities, Employee reporting, Employee qualifications (highest qualifications achieved), Employee relative experience (number of years)
• All employees above will receive an email from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   with the following details: Instructions to complete the survey, Username, Password
• All employees shall then log on to www.360spa.org, complete the survey and submit WITHIN ONE WEEK.
• Questions may be left blank if they are unknown or if they are not applicable.
• THE SURVEY IS A CLICK THE BOX EXERCISE THAT SHOULD TAKE AROUND 45 MINS TO 1 HOUR I.E. AN AVERAGE OF 10 – 12 MINS DAILY
• The inputs provided by each participant are invaluable parts of this process.
• All responses from participants are anonymous and treated with absolute confidentiality, and are aggregated and analysed into a single 360 SPA company report.