Voltas launches knowledge portal
May 17, 2005

On May 17, Voltas inaugurated ‘V-Gyan’, its knowledge portal designed for ‘learning and sharing, knowing and growing’. At the launch ceremony at HO, Mumbai, MD Ashok Soni described V-Gyan as a people-centric initiative based on the recognition that "Today, more than any other asset, it is human capital which makes the difference." Said A J Gole, VP-HR: "A company’s knowledge capital is very critical to its business. V-Gyan addresses the need to convert the tacit knowledge lying in the brains of people into explicit knowledge."

The launch was preceded by a series of daily teasers over the Voltas intranet, building up curiosity and speculation about an unspecified exciting event scheduled for May 17. There was also a contest for creating a suitable name for the site, with the winning entry ‘V-Gyan’ coming from as many as eight contestants. The 1st prize winner, chosen by lucky draw, was U B Pai of Thane Works; consolation prizes were awarded to the seven remaining contestants. In a surprise addendum to the launch ceremony, prizes were also given to the ‘early birds’ who responded with such amazing promptness to the contest call, demonstrating both agility and creativity of a high order.

VP-IT and CIO, Satish Bilgi introduced the concept of the knowledge portal as the medium of knowledge exchange, and expressed the hope that V-Gyan would build up its own feedback loop of sharing-learning-using, leading to knowledge enrichment and creation of knowledge capital.