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Welcome to the February issue of the Reflections e-zine!
Highlights: The latest goings-on and updates from our campuses, visits, and campaigns.
Business Stories: Key stories from the businesses – milestones, achievements, innovations, launches.
Community: Updates on our community initiatives, volunteering opportunities.
Events: The recent events we hosted and participate in.
Spotlight: ‘A Day In The Life Of’ and #WeAreTesco.
Brand Presence: Highlights of Tesco Bengaluru's brand presence and reach, in the digital space.
This is your e-zine, and we invite you to contribute stories and experiences, be part of the Editorial Council, and give us feedback to improve. To feature news from your business, highlights of your journey at Tesco Bengaluru, stories or informative articles in the next edition of Reflections, send them to [email protected].
Hello Bengaluru: Audiocast
In The News
Listen to all the buzz live at #12 Foundation Day- as colleagues share what they are enjoying about their journey at Tesco Bengaluru
• Silicon India’s latest issue published an article by Rajan Manickavasagam titled “Looking inside contemporary application architecture”,
• Aniisu Verghese featured in an interview published by Economic Times, titled “Employee Volunteering is a Key element in Tesco’s CSR efforts”.
• Edmond Mesrobian – CTO, Tesco: Interview in ET Now’s ‘Start Up Central’
Tesco Bengaluru Corporate e-zine February Edition, 2016
Highlights Business Stories
Community Events Spotlight
Brand Presence
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Our CSR Practices Are Awarded As The Best Tesco Bengaluru has won the Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices Award at the 2016 Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards organised by the World CSR Congress. Our case study on the impact and process of CSR Month won us this award. This award reflects recognition for our practices as domain-leading.
Kudos to the Community Team members who have tirelessly worked at driving our CSR strategy and work.
Winner of ‘Best Practice in Data Analysis Strategy' Award
Tesco Bengaluru won the coveted award at the 2016 Big Data, Analytics & Insights Summit. The Property Analytics team received the award for their work in the application of analytics in Energy Consumption Reduction, Spend Optimisation and Effective Space Management. This award reflects our proficiency in big data predictive analytics which is pivotal in customer service and satisfaction.
Congratulations to the Property Analytics team!
Monthly Promotions At WL1 & Increased Robustness Of IJP In line with your feedback from WMTY, and as part of our commitment to improve trust, transparency and fairness, we will be making some changes to the way we promote colleagues at WL1 and encourage movement through IJP.
These changes will be effective immediately in Non-Technology and over the next few months in Technology as we work to align to the new Technology Career Framework model that Edmond unveiled last week.
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Key highlights of these changes are outlined below:
• WL1 Promotions Through Panel o Will be undertaken on a monthly basis o Simplified criteria for promotion nomination o Governance at a functional PMG level
• Internal Job Postings (IJP) o Clearer description of the role requirements for each IJP vacancy o Strengthening of the interview/selection process to ensure its more consistent, fair, robust and
balanced between technical and behavioral assessment o Ensuring relevant and appropriate feedback is provided to all interviewed colleagues, thus
increasing transparency of decision-making • Lateral Pay increments for Lead/Senior WL1 moves in Non-Technology functions
o To encourage lateral movement and the broadening of experience for our colleagues in Senior WL1 roles in Non-Technology functions (i.e. Leads), we are introducing a pay increment for colleagues who move laterally through an IJP or a planned career move
o For more details, please refer to the Guidelines for Lateral Moves on the Hub.
Impact and Your Support This is a progressive change and helps to bring us in-line with market best practice, whilst giving colleagues a fairer and quicker opportunity to progress and develop their careers with Tesco Bengaluru. I look forward to your support to facilitate these changes effectively and would encourage you to discuss with your Line Manager or People Business Partners should you have any questions.
‘New To Tesco’ Learning Plan
Research tells us that the first 90 days in an organisation are really important. To help new colleagues get the most out of this time, we have introduced a 'New to Tesco – Learning Plan' that will support them to better understand our ways of working and compliance expectations.
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The New to Tesco plan centralises all compliance and Tesco core skills trainings. All new joiners will need to complete the listed courses within the set timelines.
New colleagues will be informed about the New to Tesco – Learning Plan at their Induction. Auto-emails will be periodically sent to them from Academy Online, to help them keep on track and ensure completion.
For more details, please write to [email protected].
Thought Leadership Venkatesh Kulkarni, Tesco Technology, participated in Internet of Things panel discussion at the 9th Loyalty Summit held in Mumbai.
Ravindraprasad Elicherla, Tesco Technology, was a panellist at ‘Protect Your Data: Simplify Data Protection For Your Growing Business’. He shared his views from an application development perspective related to backing up dataVenkatesh Kulkarni, Tesco Technology, participated in Internet Of Things panel discussion at the 9th Loyalty Summit held in Mumbai.
Ravindraprasad Elicherla, Tesco Technology, was a panellist at ‘Protect Your Data: Simplify Data Protection For Your Growing Business’. He shared his views from an application development perspective related to backing up data.
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Our Tough Throwball Women Champs The Tesco Bengaluru Women's Throwball team emerged as Runners-up of the Champions Trophy at the Inter-corporate Throwball Tournament organised by FrontFoot Sports on 13th February 2016.
Tesco Bengaluru defeated Deutsche Bank & FirePro System in the Group stages and Bosch in the Semi-finals. They faced EY in the Finals. Shubha Nagaraj was awarded the honor of 'Best Attacker of the Tournament'. Congratulations team! Best Attacker of the Tournament went to Shubha Nagaraj
Runners-up In Cricket Tournament Our Softball Cricket Team emerged as Runners-up of the Ekalavya Sports Club Cricket Tournament, held at ITI Grounds, Bangalore. Manjunatha Muniramaiah was awarded the 'Player of the Tournament' award for his all-round performance through the tournament. Congratulations to the team!
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Finance: Year-end With Directors - Arvind Sridharan & Jobi Abraham Finance Transformation Team
February is always an interesting time in Finance – the teams work feverishly to ensure a smooth year-end close. And this time, we also had some visitors from the UK to encourage us.
Kate Koch (Head of Group Finance & Performance) and Suzan Van Dijk (Finance Transformation Director) visited us from 8th to 11th Feb, and Bruce Marsh (UK & ROI Finance Director, UK Board) was here on the 23rd and 24th of Feb.
This was Kate's first visit to Tesco Bengaluru, within three months of her joining Tesco. In Kate's words, "it was an enjoyable and informative trip to Bengaluru." Read about her visit and more on her blog post.
Kate and Suzan addressed all Finance colleagues in a Town Hall on 11th Feb and spoke about Finance and Transformation priorities. They also presented the annual awards to a few of our Finance colleagues.
Bruce spent two days with us this time, his second visit, reviewing the Business Operations' performance. He also addressed us in a Town Hall on 24th Feb, and provided an overview of the Tesco UK performance.
He reiterated the importance of the role played by the Bengaluru colleagues in delivering Finance objectives and supporting Global Transformation. He also shared his priorities for the next year.
Bruce also presented a few 'Special Recognition' awards to colleagues in Finance.
He reiterated the importance of the role played by the Bengaluru colleagues in delivering Finance objectives and supporting Global Transformation. He also shared his priorities for the next year.
Bruce also presented a few 'Special Recognition' awards to colleagues in Finance.
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Customer & Product Executive Team Visits Bengaluru
- Sharth R Babu, Customer & Product
The UK Executive team were in Tesco Bengaluru during Week 52, for an end-of year review and to plan the way forward for the next year. The UK Executive team comprised of Jason Tarry (Chief Product Officer), Kari Daniels (Commercial Director, Packaged Food) and George Wright (Commercial Director, Strategy & Operations).
Their 3-day visit to Tesco Bengaluru was action-packed with review meetings, shared services model workshop, Kari's session with our women colleagues, a Town Hall with the Customer & Product team and Jason's visit to the Foundation Day celebrations.
The teams here were commended for the improvements and their support to the business, for the year.
During the Town Hall, George Wright, shared an overall view of how Tesco as a business is faring in the UK and how we are managing to gain advantage over our competitors.
The Town Hall ended with an informative Q&A session, with the teams clarifying a lot of questions from Jason, Kari and George.
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Edmond Addresses Technology Town Hall The Technology Town Hall was organised on 12th February and Edmond Mesrobian, CTO – Tesco, addressed all Technology colleagues. Edmond discussed the objectives and approach for Technology He also introduced them to the new career framework, aimed at delivering a greater level of value for the business and raising the bar. His address was followed by an engaged Q&A session.
Getting colleagues into the innovative spirit were two separate contests – ‘HackFest’ on 11th & 12th Feb between teams in Vidya Laxman’s directorate, and ‘HackIT’ on 16th & 17th Feb between teams in Tilak Doddapaneni’s directorate.
Winners Of Referral Programme Tesco Parichay’s Double Up offer sought to reward colleagues for their referrals. Colleagues who referred between P9-P11 were entered into a luck draw with a winner each from Main Campus & DTP+NRE. The lucky winnners are:
• Siddharth Sampath - Property Services • Anusha, - Customer and Product
Channel & People Town Hall The Channel & People Town Hall saw a lot of interesting activities.
‘Bringing Women Together’ was re-launched, followed by an update from Glen. Colleagues put up a fun dance and a competitive Fashion Show by all the three sub functions with themes like Urban Jungle, Zodiacs. Colleagues were then recognised in the R&R and the fun of the day was topped by a band performance.
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Coffee With Sanjeev
- Alysia D'Souza, People
The Leadership and People Business Partner team of Property Services conceptualised and hosted the first "Coffee with Sanjeev'' event. The objective of introducing this programme is to foster a culture of inclusiveness and transparency by offering a medium for colleagues to have a direct discussion with Sanjeev Nagwekar, Director of Property Services.
For the first edition of this initiative held at the DTP campus, we invited women colleagues with tenures ranging between 3 to 5 years. Sanjeev opened the discussion by establishing the context and had colleagues introduce themselves.
The first question (as anticipated) was based on the much-awaited movement of the team back to the Main Campus. Sanjeev informed the group that the movement is likely to take place in the last week of March and that Archana Iyer, Programme Manager - CEO's Office, will take colleagues through the new Ways of Working at the refurbished workplace.
Sanjeev spoke with colleagues about their experiences of working with different stakeholders. He addressed the concern of the expected increase in workload in the year that is likely to arise from the expansion of stores and discussed ways to manage the change smoothly.
Another topic that was discussed was about the unavailability of direct shuttles between the DTP and NRE campuses which affects colleagues who have enrolled their children at the We-Care crèche at NRE. Sanjeev assured the team that he will look into this immediately along with the People Business Partner team and have separate shuttles arranged between the DTP & NRE campuses scheduled across three different timings.
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Lastly, Sanjeev delved into understanding the group's perception of Tesco Bengaluru being a great place to work. The group unanimously agreed that Tesco Bengaluru is indeed a great place to work with, comprehensive benefits, fantastic facilities and sufficient scope for maintaining a work-life balance. While colleagues said that they would recommend Tesco Bengaluru to their peers and friends, they also felt that the compensation could be better. Sanjeev took note of this point and said he would look into this with the People Business Partner team to understand why this perception exists and how the gap could be bridged, if any.
Sharing positive feedback post the event, Sweta Chandrashekhar, Retail Planner said, "Coffee with Sanjeev provides a platform for a direct interaction with Sanjeev and helps us know more about the growth opportunities at Tesco Bengaluru. I am glad that our doubts with regard to compensation were also cleared. Overall, it was a great experience and I hope to see this forum being hosted consistently."
Madhuri Dindwar, Senior Retail Planner said, "This was a great opportunity to meet Sanjeev in person and interact with him directly. The discussions and answers provided by Sanjeev were honest and transparent.—I truly appreciate this. However, I would have liked the agenda to be highlighted more broadly in the meeting invite. Nonetheless, I am positive the next group will benefit from our experience".
With a great first response, our aim is to host this forum on a quarterly basis and incorporate all the feedback that we receive to ensure continued success.
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Our 11th Successful Cleaning Drive We organised our 11th consecutive Swachh Bharat cleaning Drive near our Main Campus on 12th February, 2016. Our passionate colleagues once again came together and toiled at ensuring our neighbouring streets are spic-and-span.
We believe that everyone has the power to make a difference to our world; no work is small and no contribution is insignificant. Our Care4Nature CSR initiatives are all about action for impact.
Turning Government Schools Into Better Places To Learn As part of our School Adoption Model for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), we supported and funded infrastructure work at Government Schools at Medhehalli & Nalurahalli.
Schoolchildren at Medhehalli now have drinking water in school. The toilets in school have been repaired and are now fully functional. At Nalurahalli Government School, the playground has been levelled & prepared in order to start the sports programme we have planned for the children.
Funding & Supporting Social Good As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding for FY 2-015-16, Tesco Bengaluru has funded projects at Association for People with Disability, BOSCO, Akshaya Patra, Agastya International Foundation. We are also funding vision restorative eye surgeries for needy patients at Sankara Eye Hospital.
We are also funding projects of getting dustbins set up across the EPIP area, e-toilets installed in Whitefield’s public places and in government schools, and getting solar lights installed in public places in and near Whitefield, including Nalurahalli Park and Gandhipuram village.
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Silver Sponsor Of NASSCOM India Leadership Forum (NILF) Tesco Bengaluru was the proud Silver Sponsor of the 2016 NASSCOM India Leadership Forum (NILF), held in Mumbai between February 10th and 12th. Edmond Mesrobian, Chief Technology Officer - Tesco PLC was a keynote speaker in a session titled “When things start to think”.
Edmond connected with journalists from The Economic Times, Business Standard, The Hindu Business Line and Mint. At Bengaluru, he did an interview with the business news channel, ET Now at office.
Edmond spoke on Internet of Things (IoT), our technology focus, engagement with start-ups, and new ways of working. Look up Edmond’s interviews in the Business Standard and Your Story. The event also got covered on our Twitter handle.
Foundation Day #12: All the Buzz! Tesco Bengaluru’s twelfth Foundation Day, ‘#12’ was celebrated on February 26th, 2016. The celebration included engaging games & activities for colleagues, photo booth, Yammer conversations on ‘dozens of things’, an interesting ‘Trail of Twelve’ capturing Tesco Bengaluru’s journey so far, and a very special lunch.
“Namaskara Tesco Bengaluru!” – Watch Glen’s video on the occasion: • On YouTube • On the HUB Check out glimpses of all the fun on Twitter & Facebook. Winners All The Way:
Winners of the Yammer #12 conversations are: Titir Deb, Mandar Amdekar, Shruthi Sathyanarayana, Chandra Kumar, Annie Gladis, Adrian Alex, Divyalaxmi T, Medha Sundar, Hari Krishna Naidu, Sheldon Kumar, Rashmi Nagrajrao, John Paul, Veena Vasanthakumar Winners of the #12 Photo Board contest are: Sharel Pereira, Tessa Wood, Brinda Devaraj, Pooja Nayak, Dinesh Kumar Manickavelu, Anudeep Manamohan, Nita Balamohan
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Tesco Bengaluru In The Digital World In January 2016
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Tesco Bengaluru's Facebook Page
Likes: 46
Total Reach: 11,154
Tesco Bengaluru on Twitter
Followers: 1034
Tweet Impressions: 10,500
Tesco Bengaluru on LinkedIn
Followers: 19,481
Clicks: 101
Tesco Bengaluru’s YouTube Channel
Videos: 52
Views: 49,801
Tesco Bengaluru Website
Page Views: 30,030
Users: 13,620
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