Proposal
AI for Strategy
From Intelligence to Execution
The Coca-Cola Company · Strategy Team
MELLONE
Understanding your team
Your team
Where you're starting from
What you're looking for
How you want it delivered
Founders
Rakesh Venugopal
Co-Founder, Product & Strategy
Indian School of Business"Seed to Series F — strategy, growth & org transformation."
Swadhin Sahu
Co-Founder, Operations & Revenue
IIT Madras IIM Lucknow"Ed-tech to AI products & services — revenue, growth, analytics & operations."
What we do
AI training for corporates
Upskilling teams and leadership through hands-on, role-relevant AI training
AI implementation & FDE services
Embedding AI solutions directly into client operations, from strategy to execution
AI training in colleges
Building AI fluency in the next generation through campus partnerships
AI products (stealth)
Proprietary AI products currently in development
Program feedback
5-point scale4.6/5
Service & delivery
4.8/5
Mentors & instruction
4.6/5
Content & curriculum
4.8/5
Likelihood to recommend
4.6/5
Overall program
Alumni Speak
Georges Chung Tick Kan
Ex-Senior Economic Adviser, PMO Mauritius
Sarada Moothoosamy
Head of Finance & Management, MCCI
Jinoj Reghupathy
VP, Valuation Control Group, Deutsche Bank
Vishnu Menon
VP of Engineering, Sift Consultancy
In their own words
"I used to spend hours pulling reports together manually — now I know how to get AI to do the heavy lifting, so I can focus on the actual decision."
"Competitive tracking used to mean someone manually scanning reports every week. Now I have a clear way to automate that signal."
"I walked in treating AI as a chatbot. I walked out treating it as part of how my team operates."
Momentum · Projects in pipeline
AI workshop for Ministry of Education, Mauritius
Capacity-building session for government officials
AI training deployment — 5 colleges, India
Campus-wide AI fluency program
AI implementation — 2 manufacturing companies and 1 international Non-Profit
End-to-end AI deployment into operations
Forward-deployed engineering partnership
Embedding FDE talent within a leading AI lab in Mauritius
Meet your mentor
Divij Bajaj
Data & Applied Scientist II, MicrosoftBrings hands-on experience applying GenAI and ML to solve real business problems at enterprise scale — the same lens this workshop applies to your team's challenges.
Workshop flow
Gather intelligence
Know what's true, internally and externally
Generate insights
Turn data into a clear signal
Support decisions
Turn signal into a defensible choice
Drive execution
Turn the choice into action
What you'll learn & walk away with
Session 1 · Gather intelligence
Copilot vs. Claude decision rules · precise prompting · reasoning techniques for research
Session 2 · Generate insights
Natural-language Excel analysis · automated flagging · self-refreshing reports · opportunity frameworks
Session 3 · Support decisions
Comparing strategic options · stress-testing assumptions · risk identification · AI as pressure-test partner
Session 4 · Drive execution
Executive summarization · leadership storytelling · automation · shareable mini-tools · decision-to-action workflows
Tools at a glance
Copilot — internal & structured work
Excel — natural-language queries, formulas, pivots, flagging logic
Power Query & Power Pivot — self-refreshing reports
PowerPoint & Word — summarizing reports, drafting decks
Office Scripts — automating repetitive tasks
Enterprise search — surfacing internal knowledge
Claude — external research & reasoning
Reasoning patterns — chain of thought, tree of thoughts, ReAct
Web research — live competitive & market scans
Pressure-testing — scenario planning, assumption testing, red-teaming
Artifacts & Cowork — shareable mini-tools, research-and-build
Delivery method
In-person
Online
Potential future engagements
Training programs — beyond strategy
Illustrative
AI implementation — FDE opportunities
Market intelligence dashboard
Live dashboard pulling Nielsen/Kantar and competitor data together automatically — no manual report compilation.
Red/green-flag alerting
Automated system that watches key business metrics and flags threshold breaches the moment they happen.
Competitive intelligence brief
Recurring automated scan of competitor pricing, campaigns, and moves — delivers a ready-made brief each cycle.
Executive deck generator
Turns a one-page brief and underlying data into a board-ready presentation draft, cutting manual build time.
Self-refreshing reporting pipeline
Automatically pulls and refreshes data each cycle so recurring reports update themselves instead of being rebuilt.
Scenario-planning tool
Lays out multiple strategic options side by side, turning tree-of-thoughts into a repeatable planning exercise.
Internal knowledge assistant
Copilot-based assistant trained on past strategy decks and business cases for fast institutional knowledge retrieval.
Assumption-tracking tool
Continuously checks whether key planning assumptions — currency, commodity prices — still hold, and flags drift.
Thank you
We'd love to bring this to your team.