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“Operational Excellence” with guest Kanchana Raman, CEO, Avion Systems, Inc.

February 24, 2011 by

[HTML1] Wonder if operational excellence can be a growth strategy for your mid-sized business? Kanchana Raman shares how a commitment to operational excellence has helped Avion Systems grow to its diverse group of 850 employees representing 19 different nationalities serving an impressive client list that includes AT&T, SPRINT NEXTEL, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Accenture, and UPS. Hear how they maintain their commitment to “hit the ground running” every day in the ever-changing world of telecom, technology, and convergence.

More about Kanchana Raman
Kanchana Raman has been featured in several magazines including most recently in the Fortune Magazine. She has been part of panels discussing global expansions and opportunities for woman in developing nations. Kanchana was selected to represent three US delegations, S. Africa in 2005, S. America in 2006, London in 2008. The mission involved meeting and advising entrepreneurs on growth within the region and globally. Kanchana chairs several board positions, the Georgia Women’s Business Council and represents Georgia on the National Leadership forum for the Women Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the Women’s Leadership Enterprise (WLE) to name a few.

Kanchana is the recipient of several entrepreneurial excellence awards.

In 2008 Avion Systems was named the recipient of the NXTSolution Award at the CTIA Conference, the most significant telecommunications industry gathering in the world. The Award is the pinnacle of recognition for business performance in the next generation arena of the telecommunications industry.

In 2010, Kanchana has been selected by AT&T to be part of a 30 member AT&T Women Entrepreneurs’ Forum. The forum will serve the emerging communications technology needs of U.S. businesses and help drive continued innovation and growth for AT&T.

Kanchana holds a MBA from Emory University. Her continuing education focus has been in executive management, attending programs at Tuck Business School, Dartmouth, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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About Aldonna Ambler

Aldonna R. Ambler, CMC, CSP has earned the right to be called The Growth Strategist™. She has won over two dozen national and statewide “entrepreneur of the year” awards for the resilient growth of her international businesses across four recessions. More importantly, her midsized B-to-B service, technology, and distribution clients get on…and then stay on…the published lists of the fastest growing privately held companies. Ambler hosts a weekly peer-to-peer-to-peer online radio program.

Aldonna is also the Host of The Growth Strategist™ Radio Show on WomensRadio. The Growth Strategist™ Radio Show is a peer-to-peer broadcast that features interviews with CEOs and Presidents of midsized companies (typically between $20-$200 million/year) sharing success tips about the growth strategy-of-the-week. This show will identify the strengths, strategies and challenges facing these CEO's on a daily basis.