Powerful Book and must read for every Indian entrepreneur especially those looking to start-up. This book gives the real journey of a Bigbasket start-up, an extraordinary company. It points out to everyone in the start-up ecosystem i.e., Founders, Leadership Team, Investors, Employees, Internal and external Customers, Vendors, Farmers, Customer experience executives, etc..
In this book, Hari and Mani narrates the inspirational story of people and processes they followed over the years in the company, challenges they faced to overcome the difficult situations and the reasons behind the success of bigbasket.
Some of the key elements explained in this book are ,
1. History of Bigbasket, its founders and leadership-team,
2. Monthly and annual Rewards & recognition's for top performers,
3. Attendance management system for blue collar employees for on-time and correct salary payments,
4. Focus largely on customer delight by No questions asked return policy, Delivery guarantee, no call from delivery executive to customer for understanding the route, ticket based folder development to maintain customer history, etc..
5. Supply Chain Management to minimize the waiting time for suppliers and farmers during receiving at warehouses, managing 100% fill rates, Wide Range up to 30000 SKU's, Hub wise segregation, On-time slotting deliveries, etc..
6. Importance on Culture and Values even at rapid scaling,
7. Introduction of Innovation function to address painful areas and improvements in existing processes ,
8. Introduction of farmer connect program to motivate farmers to get right cost for the right product and to sell fresh produce to customers,
9. Making a Company Tech-Enabled with latest features like "Locus" for auto routing which uses Artificial intelligence technology, "Kapture" for customer relationship management, App and website design management, etc...
10. Acquisition of Delyver, Rain-can and Morning cart companies and its founders resulting in entrepreneurial spirits in express delivery, BB Daily, and BB Instant business,
11. POSH policy implementation across the locations and women's empowerment,
12. Training and development of all processes followed in bigbasket for CEE's, Employees and leadership-team with best content management,
13. Adoption of correct marketing strategies and finalization of Brand ambassador for bigbasket,
14. Some of the Success stories of blue collar employees,
15. Reduction of attrition by on time salary payment, helping them and their family with the Trust for education, Health insurance, Training programs, etc..