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Kirtikumar Menon

Kirt

Menon is very well versed in the areas of enterprise architecture, information management, Business Process Management, Web Development, Internet, E -Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media.He worked with NFL and a major league sports team to develop early wire-less based devices that are today called smart-phones.

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Kirt Menon Vendor Evaluation

Tier 1 Tier 2
SAP

Tier 3

ERP, SCM, WMS

Technology

Maturity

Tibco

EAI, Messaging

OAT 4.0 Connecterra

Middleware

B2B, E2E

Viewlocity

Infrastructure
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Closed Loop RFID Solution Design

1 Knowledge Management 2 Technology Evaluation 3 Vendor Evaluation 4 Standards Setting 5 Benchmarking 6 Systems and Process Integration 7 Program Management 8 The Bottom Line

Modular

The COE has to think about

Assess Design Develop

SCM

WMS

Concept, Prototype Pilot, Test and Deploy

Standards Based

integration with Business

Processes and Enterprise systems

ERP

FeedbackReusable Incorporate into Design Process

Integrate with Enterprise Scalable Management Systems

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Kirtikumar Menon`s Action Plan

Develop an Implementation Plan.

Step by step implementation plan.

Who does what, when, where and how.

Roles and responsibilities Deliverables Definition

Content
Context Goal accomplishment benchmarks and metrics Knowledge dissemination

Demonstrations held
COE involvement in actual implementations

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Kirt Menon - Next Steps

Plans for the next 10 days

Breakdown the items mentioned in the previous slides into
specific tasks, action items, and to do lists.

Evaluate and prioritize activities to determine

Who will do what, when and how Submit the 1st Draft of a Project Plan with enough granularity to show Definition

Phases
Tasks and Activities Set up RFID IT Website

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Character + capability: How we do things is as important as what we do

EX CO
No Limits
Strategy Values and behaviors Structure and processes

Metrics, results and rewards

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RFID IT COE Leadership framework

Structure & Processes Strategy
Leverage Industry leadership for competitive advantage Manage, evaluate and prioritize demand from BUs Consistently manage and execute successful implementations using ROI driven and Value Added best practices and methodology Enable a framework for evaluating RFID IT products, technologies and solutions. Intelligently accumulate and distribute RFID knowledge. Leverage work done during RFID implementations and the experience of other COEs for use in relevant business cases. R Drive standard setting to meet EX CO needs. corporate objectives Periodically evaluate vendor offerings corporate strategy Create and showcase Best of Breed solutions. value proposition Create a pricing model for services. Focus on design, development, deployment and support.

Strategy
Our Our Our

Values & Behavior Our shared values Our standards of conduct Step by step implementation plan to achieve

Values and behavior

Structure and processes Metrics, Results & Rewards

Setup a for measurement framework Our operating model and metrics for Return on Investment goals. Investment Model Roles and responsibilities Adoption Time Table Deliverables- what did we move from the COE to Success Criteria. the field. People and Process improvement metrics Goal accomplishment benchmarks and metrics Productivity Look ahead to what comes next in RFID, and Our balanced scorecard Value Analysis provision for continuous improvement in processes based on feedback and experience. Execution Cycle times. Benchmarking Confidential- For discussion purposes only

Metrics, results and rewards

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Kirtikumar Menon - Acknowledgement, Credits, etc.

Material in the foregoing was created from:

Publicly available material from various resources; Knowledge gathered during more than 20 years of providing strategic business technology consulting services during my association with Companies like 3Com, Accenture, Barclays, BofA, Boeing, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Capital One, Cisco, Consolidated Plastics, Deloitte, E&Y, GE, GM, HP, IBM, Interfirst, KLA/Tencor, Lytton, Lockheed, Loral, KPMG, marchFIRST, NUCOR, Oracle, Palm, PWC, SUN, US Foods, WF, etc. My educators at Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Bombay, University of Hawaii, etc. My membership in:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Institute of Certified Management Accountant; Project Management Institute; and International Scrum Institute.

Attendance of countless seminars, workshops, summits, conferences, etc.

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