Dhiraj Badgujar, Research Analyst

Dhiraj Badgujar

Research Analyst

Frost & Sullivan

Location
India - Pune
Education
Master's degree, Telecom Management
Experience
11 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 4 Months

Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan
  • India
  • My current job since January 2017
Telecom Analyst
  • India
  • January 2014 to January 2017

•Worked on topic specific projects with major focus on service providers’ innovations and researching various strategies adopted by operators and correlating the impact on their operational and financial performance
•Authored country specific regulation reports, providing a detailed outline of the regulatory framework for telecoms in that country. The report offers an overview of spectrum policy, auctions, and licensing
•Authored trackers related to intelligent networks project, providing important details of major network and tower sharing deals around the world. It also offers insight into fixed and mobile network infrastructure deals by region, infrastructure type, and deal type
•Worked on trackers pertaining to IoT, Mobile Payments Services, Telco-OTT, OSS/BSS vendor contracts and other several topics

Business Research Associate at Netscribes India Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • January 2013 to January 2014

•Works with Enterprise Market Research Team (for IT Clients) across various client specified requests spanning across various industries and geographies. Key activities include
•Company profiling, Competitor analysis, IT mapping of a company including IT initiatives, software and service landscape etc. Key areas include: company- overview, financials, SWOT, executive research, key strategies and developments, in addition to IT landscape mentioned above. Databases Handled: Factiva, Bloomberg, Onesource, DiscoverORG, Rainking

technology research analyst
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TechVision team (ICT) of Frost & Sullivan. Works on client specific consulting engagement and insightful syndicated/custom technology reports pertaining to emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, 5G, AR/VR, XaaS, and many others by carrying out exhaustive primary and secondary research activities.
•Tracks technology developments, funding, partnerships, R&D focus areas of stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem. Performs deep dive research for consulting projects using proprietary analytical tools to fulfill client’s strategic business needs and empower their decision-making process by providing actionable insights.
•Identifies and evaluates best-in-class products and companies for their commitment to innovations, customer service, and successful business strategies.
•Conducts in depth research, technology due diligence and opportunity evaluation for global clients through secondary and primary research with corporates, academia, national research labs, investors etc.
•Actively engages with technology and industry experts through analyst briefings and client presentations to share and gather relevant insights. Contributes to media press articles. Mentors junior colleagues and new joiners and guides them through the process and system.
Key Consulting Projects:
•Project I: Taiwan based leading government agency wanted to identify disruptive emerging technologies and investment opportunities in Taiwan. The agency also wanted to identify the gaps in Taiwan that need to be addressed with respect to emerging technology ecosystem. Solution: Proposed a scenario generation approach and identified key emerging techs through proprietary filtering approach. Developed a technology roadmap for the identified key technologies and sub-technologies and assessed the capabilities of Taiwan in comparison to global milestones / achievements. Recommendations for R&D opportunities in Taiwan were provided as final outcome.
•Project II: A leading government institute on behalf of their industries were looking for strategic partnership with software startups focused on emerging technologies such as AI, XaaS, Blockchain, Big Data Analytics, AR/VR based in North America to work together with and exploit their technical and operational synergies in order to develop their product portfolio.
Solution: Several constraints of partnership were discussed and companies were analyzed and filtered from an exhaustive list of startups. Established a successful engagement between the clients and identified companies, and the client was extremely content with the final outcome of the project

Education

Master's degree, Telecom Management
  • at Aegis School of Business & Telecommunication
  • January 2013

’s Program in

High school or equivalent, Telecom Management
  • at Aegis School of Business & Telecommunication
  • January 2013

’s Program in

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication
  • at University of Pune
  • January 2011

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High school or equivalent, Electronics and Telecommunication
  • at Pune Board
  • January 2006

Specialties & Skills

CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL
INTELLIGENT NETWORK
NETWORKING
RESEARCH
TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Languages

English
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