Convenient access to a wide range of books – meeting both professional and personal needs - is an unfulfilled need for most book readers. This is particularly true for the employed class who spend most of their time at work.

From a corporate’s standpoint, setting up a good quality conventional corporate library requires management effort, capital expenditure on books, administrative effort and costly real estate.

Kwench addresses both these needs. Launch of Kwench library services will enable your employees who register for the service to conveniently access books across 40 categories. Our collection includes business management, self improvement, fiction, non-fiction and children’s books to cater to the professional and personal reading needs of individuals.

While users can browse through the virtual library and place an order online, the physical book is delivered to the desk within 24 hours.

	No capital expenditure on books for setting up or upgrading corporate library		Virtual library on your desk – Convenient web based ordering from anywhere
	No space required for library, saving valuable real estate		Unlimited borrowal time and no late fees; No limit on the number of borrowals in a month
	Enhances employee value proposition and builds a community of readers		Wide range of titles to meet both professional and personal reading needs

Management books from Harvard Publications, Random House, Tata McGraw-Hill Books on Finance, Marketing, Operations, HR, Six Sigma, Lean etc. HBR magazines	Self improvement books on Communication, Presentation skills, Team building, Time management, Yoga HBR essentials on Decision making, Crisis management, Negotiations
Professional Development	Personal Development
Community Building	Work-Life Balance
Communities of common interest to share the love of books Book ratings and book reviews Find out what others are reading	Light reading – Fiction, History, Biographies, Sports, Politics, Food & Wine etc. Comics and children’s books Regional language books

In my opinion this is one of the best HR initiatives so far. The library is truly exhaustive in terms of the variety offered as well as the depth of books in every category. What I particularly liked about the service is the ease of the browse-borrow-read-return model in just a few clicks. Kudos to Team HR for this great effort !

– Email from a Kwench user to HR Head

Why Book Summaries?

• Thousands of business books are published every year. The best among these deliver business principles that when applied can bring about positive change in individuals, teams and organizations. But the average business book takes hours to read. How does a busy executive find time to keep abreast of these new ideas and thoughts?
• This is where business book summaries come in. Key ideas in most business books can be succinctly captured in 8 to 10 page summaries without compromising on the quality of the content. Book summaries condense these books in a form that captures their key messages in a language that is easy to read, understand and assimilate

How Does it Benefit the Company?

• Research has shown that much of the productivity of an employee can be attributed to the right kind of information and knowledge being disseminated regularly and in an engaging manner
  • A Taylor Nelson Sofres study* indicates that 85% of employees increased their efficiencies after being exposed to business book summaries as part of an e-learning program
  • 60% of the same group also improved performance and retentione
• Facilitation of employee self-learning through convenient tools is integral to the overall learning and development strategy in any organization. Business book summaries are an ideal vehicle to promote employee self-learning across a variety of topics
• Being an e-learning product, companies can reach out to their employees across geographies including sales teams on the field

* Sourced from Business Summaries White Paper.