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PHOTON SOLUTIONS SHORT PROFILE

The Simplified Organizational Profile is a great starting point for self-assessment to understand your organization and what you consider important. It will help you identify potential gaps in key information and focus on key performance requirements and results. The Profile asks you to describe your organizations environment, relationships, influences, and challenges. The Organizations Environment 1. What are your organizations main products or services? We are a business solutions delivery organization. We offer custom made competitive market based solution to non conventional business concerns. We offer Data Collection, Data Editing/Cleansing, Data Entry, Data Analysis & Data Management in addition to that we offer skilled human resource with relevant educational backgrounds for market research, consumer research, TNAs, Situational Analysis and Need Assessment Studies. 2. What is your organizations mission or purpose? (Why does your organization exist? Include vision and values if you have them.) In the context of local market unemployment ratio and analysis of fresh graduates available to employer market, a dire need had aroused to establish a platform to offer an opportunity to our youth to get pre job market exposure and acquire marketable skills which would help our youth to have more job opportunities and employers to have a better choice. So here we are focused to be a pre job coaching institute by engaging them in practical business solutions and compensating them with stipends to get financially independent. 3. What are the key processes that are essential in running your business? (Processes are those things you do to develop, produce, sell and service your products/services.) We engage fresh graduates in our programs train and polish their skills through participation in house coaching and field trainings. This process enables us to design, produce and market competitive and economical business solutions/services to market. 4. How many people work for you including full and part-time employees, contractors, and volunteers? We are founding members with diverse educational and professional backgrounds. (Full Time) We have a non official BOD which comprises of market leaders from different segments to help us (Part Time)

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We have 75+ graduates enrolled as internees from different educational disciplines and geographical backgrounds which helps us to maintain our distinction in the market (Full Time) We have one senior programmer, one statistician/data analyst and three report writers on our consultant board .

6. How does your organization communicate both important decisions and day-to-day information to the workforce? We believe in participatory approach and make our decision with consultation and consideration with all stakeholders i.e. clients, Internees, project core committee. We believe that effective and clear communication is a key factor which leads us towards key decisions which create success for all stakeholders. The Organizations Relationships 7. Who are your key customers and what are their key requirements related to using or buying your products/services? 8. How do you communicate with your customers? Key Customers
People or organizations that buy/use your products/services

Key Requirements
What customers want or need from your products/services; the factors your customers use to decide whether to buy from you or use another option

Communication Method(s) Presentations Orientations Emails Cellular phones Group discussions

Social Services Sector

Consumer Marketing Companies

We help Social Services Sector to avail the pre trained human resource for their different short term assignments ranging from Data Collection, Data Editing/Cleansing, Data Entry and Data Analysis for Situational Analysis/Need Assessment/Impact Assessment Studies and services deliveries like distributions/trainings/capaci ty building of marginalized communities. We help consumer marketing companies to avail the services of research consultants to evaluate the market volumes, competitors share and market potential to be explored in addition to that analyze and understand the

Presentations Orientations Emails Cellular phones Group discussions

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Banking and Financial Services Industry

Corporate Management Sector

consumer behavior towards buying and consumption to maintain the market share of existing brands. We shall help Banking and Financial Services Industry to understand the market potential, assess the customer needs, measure the existing service delivery levels and attain the customer satisfaction levels. In addition to that we shall engage banking sector leaders to design and develop a curriculum for pre job capacity building programs and these programs will help us to produce better equipped and ready to serve youth and Banking & Financial Service Industry to have better choice in hiring. We shall engage Corporate Managers to design and develop a curriculum for pre job capacity building programs and these programs will help us to produce better equipped and ready to serve youth and Corporate Sector to have better choice in employee engagements.

The Organizations Strategic Situation 9. What other entities does your organization compete with? (This includes both competitors for customers & market share and for other resources such as funding) Competitor What Competing For? Consultancy Services Organizations Customers (Social Development Sector) Career Coaching And Capacity Customers (Youth) Building Institutes Social Development Sector Funding
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Organizations 10. What are the principal factors that determine your success? What key advantages or strengths does your organization have in achieving your mission, vision and/or goals? We are very much confident of our success because of following factor We are young and being young is the ones biggest advantage which distinguishes one from others and keeps one beyond limitations and always ready to accept challenges and achieve goals. We are enthusiastic about our ideas and their successful implementation irrespective of time, area, environment and infrastructure which might be definite barriers for others. We are with diverse educational, professional, geographical and ethnic backgrounds which help us to calculate all risks, analyze situations, explore potentials, and make rational decisions while designing, offering and delivering our services/products. We have a nos. of successful projects on our track record with satisfactory service/product provision in the market. Our major input is our youth and being part of that we are very clear about their needs and potentials and how to engage, train and utilize them effectively and economically. We are a very innovative business model with a huge market potential. We have good linkages in market and have Non Official BOD which offers us due guidance whenever and wherever required. We have existing database of 200+ fresh graduates on our roll coming from multiple educational disciplines and geographical and ethnic backgrounds.

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11. What are the key challenges your organization faces in doing business? How does your organization address or mitigate those challenges? Challenge How Addressed We are a new business concept to We deliver brief market presentations/ discussions about our business concept and sensitize our potential clients about benefits they can have while doing business with us. Limited financial resources We signed our 1st project with one of our kind client and got approved advance of Rs. 100,000/ which enabled us to hire an office and furnish some fixtures. We five founding members pool our 25% remuneration/salary in capital fund. Inadequate Infrastructure We utilize client infrastructure and offered them discounts against that. We engage Data Entry Operators along with their own PCs and pay them some extra in kind of rentals. We all five founding members use our personal note books/laptops as our official workstations. Linkages with limited clients in Market potential is huge but market we are growing very slow by achieving satisfaction level of our customers one by one. One satisfied client is best oral marketing tool for an organization like ours. 12. What are the key goals your organization is working to achieve in the next one to three years? (Some organizations refer to these as their strategic objectives.) Where we believe to be After One Year Five Nos. of satisfied clients; Ten Nos. of successfully delivered services / products assignments;
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6 million PKR in revenues A financially sustainable organization; A well furnished office equipped with stat of the art digital lab; 200+ graduates as internees;

After Two Years Excellent services / product delivery organization; Establishment of 1st Career Development Centre in Islamabad; Launching of 1st regular Career Development Program (CDP); Established partnerships / linkages with Employer Market and Local Institutes / Academia; After Three Years Chartered Career Development Institute; Established linkages with International Institutes / Academia; Establishment of five Career Development Centers one in each province; Official launch of 1st Cosponsored Entrepreneurship Development Centre in Pakistan;

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13. How do you assess how well your organization is doing? (These are your key measures.) How often are these measures reviewed? Who takes action based on these measures? Measure Purpose When Reviewed Owner Revenues Financial Every Quarter Core Sustainability Management Nos. Of projects / Review and Every Month Core contracts signed revise the annual Management target Nos. of satisfied Review and Every Quarter Core clients revise the annual Management target 14. What are the results from last year that you are most proud of and why? Which results need the most improvement and why? Result Two nos. of satisfied clients Four nos. of successfully delivered service / product assignments 2.5 million PKR in revenues Strength or Improvement Needed & Why We need to approach the major target market and achieve targeted nos. of clients We need to improve our marketing approach to achieve the target nos. of delivered service / product assignments We have achieved our bi annual target successfully

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